SOA Research Series: How institutional layering shapes collaborative governance: An examination of forest collaboratives in the Pacific Northwest (PNW)
Friday, November 1 , 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm CDT
The Sociology and Anthropology Department will be hosting its second research series talk this semester. For this event, Dr. Brian Dill, associate professor of sociology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, will be giving a research talk titled, How institutional layering shapes collaborative governance: An examination of forest collaboratives in the Pacific Northwest (PNW).
Collaborative governance arrangements have become an important means by which a wide range of complex collective action problems are solved. Despite the importance assigned by many scholars and policy makers to the role of collaboration, the matter of how these new institutions emerge and take form has not received the consideration it warrants. In the prevailing view, institutional innovations emerge when state actors are confronted with complex problems that exceed the limits of traditional administrative structures and jurisdictional boundaries. Existing rules are seemingly “displaced” to allow for the introduction of new ones. Using forest collaboratives engaged in managing federal public lands in the Pacific Northwest as a case study, this paper explores the question of what happens when collaborative governance arrangements have been “layered” on top of preexisting institutions in order to convert them toward new objectives.
This lecture is open to the public.
This lecture will also be accessible via Zoom meeting ID 954 8520 2487, Passcode: forest. An ISU account is not necessary.
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