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100			_aLiu, Yixin and Tan, Chao _948197
245			_aThe effectiveness of network administrative organizations in governing interjurisdictional natural resources
260			_aPublic Administration: An International Quarterly
300			_a101(3), Sep, 2023: p.932-952
520			_aCan network administrative organizations (NAOs) improve networks' ability to solve complex social and environmental problems? This is a classical question in collaborative governance. The public management literature examines collaborative outcomes at either the organization or the entire network level, but has not addressed “edge level” outcomes to evaluate structured interactions among network actors. Therefore, we investigate outcomes in an interjurisdictional area that reflect collaborative efforts between local governments. Recently, Guangdong Province in China enacted the River Chief System, an institutional reform that mandates the provincial government to establish an NAO to coordinate intercity rivers' management. To assess how well the reform has worked to reduce pollution, we employ the synthetic control method using monthly water quality data from 14 river monitoring sites in two neighboring cities. Our results indicate that the reform reduced the interjurisdictional river sites' pollution level effectively by 36% in the following year. This preliminary finding contributes to the collaborative governance theory and provides new evidence on whether the NAO model improves the shared outcomes between local governments. – Reproduced https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/padm.12834
650			_aNetwork administrative organizations (NAOs), _948198
773			_aPublic Administration: An International Quarterly
906			_aENVIRONMENT
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