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An Exploration of a Nationwide Social Network of U.S. Local Governments and Climate Change Policy Partners

Hurley, Alexander Davis
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2407-5897
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou152482284172598

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2018, Master of Science (MS), Ohio University, Environmental Studies (Voinovich).
Local governments are increasingly addressing the complexity of climate change policy through collaborative governance regimes, which are diverse arrangements of organizations/agencies that leverage the relative strengths of individual members or the group as a whole in order solve a particular issue. Not much is known about the structure, function, or effectiveness of the collaborative governance regime focused on local climate change policy across the United States though. This study seeks to begin to describe the structure of this social network made up of local governments and their climate policy partners through the use of a 2014 dataset created by surveying local governments about climate policy partnerships. Partner organizations were categorized by type of organization, scale of operation, and sector of expertise. The network connection data was then visualized and processed through the use of social network analysis software, which provided numerical outputs useful for describe the network as a whole and the relative network importance of the partner organizations therein. Results from this dataset indeed indicate a highly diverse sample of partners, with the most influential tending to be larger organizations with a general focus on environmental issues and a structure that supports networking activities.
Derek Kauneckis, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Geoff Dabelko, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
DeLysa Burnier, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
125 p.
Climate Change; Environmental Studies; Public Administration; Public Policy; Sustainability
Climate change; social network; local government; policy; climate policy; polycentric; collaborative governance regimes; federalism; network analysis; wicked problems; organization; gephi

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  • Hurley, A. D. (2018). An Exploration of a Nationwide Social Network of U.S. Local Governments and Climate Change Policy Partners [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou152482284172598

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hurley, Alexander. An Exploration of a Nationwide Social Network of U.S. Local Governments and Climate Change Policy Partners. 2018. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou152482284172598.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hurley, Alexander. "An Exploration of a Nationwide Social Network of U.S. Local Governments and Climate Change Policy Partners." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou152482284172598

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© 2018, some rights reserved.Creative Commons License An Exploration of a Nationwide Social Network of U.S. Local Governments and Climate Change Policy Partners by Alexander Davis Hurley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
This open access ETD is published by Ohio University and OhioLINK.
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