The Impact of Collaboration Network on Water Resource Governance Performance: Evidence from China’s Yangtze River Delta Region

Hongtao Yi, Yan Yang and Chao Zhou
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Hongtao Yi: School of Public Administration and Policy, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
Yan Yang: School of Public Administration and Policy, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
Chao Zhou: School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 5, 1-19

Abstract: Existing studies rarely examine the relationship between network structure and network performance. To fill this research gap, this article collects inter-local collaboration network data from 41 cities in the Yangtze River Delta region of China from 2009 to 2015. Based on the institutional collective action framework and social capital theory, we propose bridging and bonding hypotheses regarding the impact of network structures on governance performance. We employ social network analysis and panel data regression models to test the hypotheses. The results show that the coefficients for closeness centrality and clustering coefficient are statistically significant in this analysis, Wuxi played a central role in the collaboration network and the region had formed a close partner network, confirming the positive effect of bridging and bonding network social capital structures on network performance.

Keywords: collaboration network; governance performance; water governance; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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