TY - JOUR
T1 - Mayoral preferences for delegation in collaborative arrangements
T2 - issue salience and policy specificity
AU - Bello-Gomez, Ricardo A.
AU - Avellaneda, Claudia N.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors express their deepest gratitude to the mayors participating in the 2019 Colombian Congress of Municipalities, as well as to the staff members of the Colombian Federation of Municipalities (FCM) and other organizers of this event. Without their cooperation, this research would not have been possible. The authors also owe special gratitude to Pedro Luis Blanco, Julieth Altamar, and Laura Marcela Villa for their valuable research assistance while conducting the survey experiment, to Jeff Vargas and Ricardo Bello Pascuas for help collecting complementary data, and to participants at the 2nd International Conference of the Experiment Lab for Public Management Research (EXPMR) in Seoul, 2020.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Multilevel governance offers different settings to study executive decision-making and delegation. Associations of municipalities (AoMs), which are collaborative partnerships, are understudied arrangements in the delegation literature. Using a survey experiment with 240 Colombian mayors, this research explores whether issue specificity and issue salience shift preferences for delegating funding appropriations. Mayors overall prefer not to delegate and shifts in issue salience do not affect these preferences. Yet, mayors are less likely to delegate to regional AoMs when facing a policy-specific scenario. Moreover, this effect is contingent upon municipal population due to the relevance of cognitive shortcuts in more complex scenarios.
AB - Multilevel governance offers different settings to study executive decision-making and delegation. Associations of municipalities (AoMs), which are collaborative partnerships, are understudied arrangements in the delegation literature. Using a survey experiment with 240 Colombian mayors, this research explores whether issue specificity and issue salience shift preferences for delegating funding appropriations. Mayors overall prefer not to delegate and shifts in issue salience do not affect these preferences. Yet, mayors are less likely to delegate to regional AoMs when facing a policy-specific scenario. Moreover, this effect is contingent upon municipal population due to the relevance of cognitive shortcuts in more complex scenarios.
KW - collaboration
KW - Decision making
KW - issue specificity
KW - local governments
KW - multilevel governance
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U2 - 10.1080/14719037.2021.1883097
DO - 10.1080/14719037.2021.1883097
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85102486731
SN - 1471-9037
VL - 24
SP - 1048
EP - 1074
JO - Public Management Review
JF - Public Management Review
IS - 7
ER -