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- Sara Hughes
- Daniel Miller Runfola
- Benjamin Cormier
Abstract
The policy choices of local governments are highly relevant today, but we know relatively little about how or when local governments choose to respond to a given issue and why this might vary between policy areas. A key variant for local governments is the proximity of policy issues: they are engaged in solving local, regional, and global problems. Using evidence from the United States on the policy issues of social inclusion, watershed management, and climate change, we demonstrate that the drivers of policy response vary with the proximity of the problem. When an issue is highly local, policy response is influenced by problem severity; when an issue is global, policy response is influenced by local political leanings; and when an issue is regional, policy response is driven by the actions of neighboring and state level governments. Local governments consider different factors and respond to different cues when engaging with different types of policy issues. Our findings provide a more nuanced understanding of sustainability policy adoption in local governments, and further our understanding of the domain†contingent nature of policy response in local governments and the structuring role of problem proximity.地方政府的议题接近性和政ç–回应 如今地方政府的政ç–选择呈现高度相关性, ä½†æˆ‘ä»¬å‡ ä¹Žä¸ äº†è§£çš„æ˜¯, 地方政府会如何〠或在何时选择回应既定议题, ä»¥å Šä¸ºä»€ä¹ˆä¸ å Œæ”¿ç–领域之间这一情况会有差异。本地政府间å˜åœ¨çš„å…³é”®å ˜é‡ æ˜¯æ”¿ç–è®®é¢˜çš„æŽ¥è¿‘æ€§ï¼šè¿™äº›è®®é¢˜ç”¨äºŽè§£å†³æœ¬åœ°ã€ åŒºåŸŸå’Œå…¨ç ƒé—®é¢˜ã€‚é€šè¿‡ä½¿ç”¨ç¾Žå›½é’ˆå¯¹ç¤¾ä¼šåŒ…å®¹ï¼ˆsocial inclusionï¼‰ã€ æµ åŸŸç®¡ç †å’Œæ°”å€™å ˜åŒ–çš„æ”¿ç–è®®é¢˜æ‰€å¾—å‡ºçš„è¯ æ ®, æœ¬æ–‡è¯ æ˜Ž, 驱动政ç–å›žåº”çš„å› ç´ ä¼šç”±äºŽé—®é¢˜æŽ¥è¿‘æ€§è€Œå ˜åŒ–ã€‚å½“è®®é¢˜å‘ˆçŽ°é«˜åº¦æœ¬åœ°åŒ–æ—¶, é—®é¢˜ä¸¥é‡ æ€§ä¼šå½±å“ æ”¿ç–å›žåº”ï¼›å½“è®®é¢˜å‘ˆçŽ°å…¨ç ƒåŒ–æ—¶, æœ¬åœ°æ”¿æ²»å€¾å ‘ä¼šå½±å“ æ”¿ç–回应;当议题呈现区域化时, 领国政府和国家政府会驱动政ç–å›žåº”ã€‚æœ¬åœ°æ”¿åºœä¼šè€ƒé‡ ä¸ å Œå› ç´ , å¹¶åœ¨å¤„ç †ä¸ å Œç±»åž‹çš„æ”¿ç–è®®é¢˜æ—¶å¯¹ä¸ å Œä¿¡å ·äºˆä»¥å›žåº”ã€‚æœ¬æ–‡ç ”ç©¶ç»“æžœä¸ºæœ¬åœ°æ”¿åºœå…³äºŽé‡‡çº³å ¯æŒ ç»æ”¿ç–æ ä¾›äº†ç»†è‡´å…¥å¾®çš„è§ è§£, å Œæ—¶è¿›ä¸€æ¥åŠ 深了对本地政府政ç–å›žåº”çš„é¢†åŸŸä¾ èµ–æ€§ã€ ä»¥å Šé—®é¢˜æŽ¥è¿‘æ€§çš„ç»“æž„æ€§è§’è‰²çš„ç †è§£ã€‚Proximidad de temas y respuesta a las polÃticas en gobiernos locales Las elecciones polÃticas de los gobiernos locales son muy relevantes hoy en dÃa, pero sabemos relativamente poco acerca de cómo o cuándo los gobiernos locales eligen responder a un tema especÃfico y por qué esto podrÃa variar entre las áreas polÃticas. Una variable clave para los gobiernos locales es la proximidad a los temas polÃticos: están involucrados en la solución de problemas locales, regionales y globales. Utilizando evidencia de los temas polÃticos de Estados Unidos acerca de la inclusión social, el manejo de cuencas y el cambio climático, demostramos que los factores que impulsan las respuestas varÃan dependiendo de la proximidad al problema. Cuando un tema es altamente local, la respuesta polÃtica está influenciada por la gravedad del problema; cuando un tema es regional, la respuesta polÃtica está influenciada por las preferencias polÃticas; y cuando un problema es regional, la respuesta polÃtica es impulsada por las acciones de los gobiernos vecinos y gobiernos a nivel estatal. Los gobiernos locales consideran diferentes factores y responden a diferentes pistas cuando tratan con diferentes tipos de temas polÃticos. Nuestros hallazgos proporcionan un entendimiento más detallado de la adopción de polÃticas de sustentabilidad en gobiernos locales, e incrementan nuestra comprensión de la dependencia en el dominio que es una caracterÃstica de la respuesta a las polÃticas en los gobiernos locales y el papel estructurador de la proximidad a los temas.
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Sara Hughes & Daniel Miller Runfola & Benjamin Cormier, 2018.
"Issue Proximity and Policy Response in Local Governments,"
Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 35(2), pages 192-212, March.
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RePEc:bla:revpol:v:35:y:2018:i:2:p:192-212
DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12285
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