This dissertation investigates the effects of federal grant-in-aid programs on metropolitan area economic growth and recovery
in "green" energy and environmental sectors of the economy, focusing on the role of self-organizing intergovernmental policy networks.
Federal grant-in-aid programs are popular policy tools to bridge the gaps between fragmented local government capacities in pursuing
desired policy outcomes, to facilitate collaboration and to stimulate the economy. The fragmentation of authority and responsibility for
economic and environmental programs at a regional level produces institutional collective action (ICA) dilemmas. Applying a network
analytic approach I examine how changes in local and regional network relationships to overcome ICA dilemmas impact policy performance.
This research contributes to the literature by extending the ICA framework to examine how network structure responds to changes in the
underlying problem or ICA dilemma that alter risks, and how these changes in network structure then influence policy performance. This
dissertation employs an integrative model to investigate the impacts of exogenous stimuli on structural changes in networks and consequent
policy performance. This empirical analysis focuses on the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) under the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) as an exogenous stimulus for metropolitan green economic governance in Florida. The first
analysis applies Stochastic Actor-Based Model (SABM) to test the impacts of the EECBG program on the structural changes in green economic
networks among 19 metropolitan areas in Florida from 2000 to 2011. The second analysis extracts network factors from the first analysis
and estimates Time-Series-Cross-Section (TSCS) models to test the hypothesized explanation for how exogenously driven changes in networks
influence policy performance through green job creation in metropolitan areas. / A Dissertation submitted to the Reubin O'D. Askew School of Public Administration and Policy in
partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Spring Semester 2016. / January 11, 2016. / Green Economic Development, Green Job Creation, Metropolitan Governance, Network Change, Network Performance,
Policy Impact / Includes bibliographical references. / Richard C. Feiock, Professor Directing Dissertation; Randall Holcombe, University Representative;
Keon-Hyung Lee, Committee Member; Kaifeng Yang, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_360386 |
| Contributors | Kwak, Chang-Gyu (authoraut), Feiock, Richard C. (professor directing dissertation), Holcombe, Randall G. (university representative), Lee, Keon-Hyung (committee member), Yang, Kaifeng (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Social Sciences and Public Policy (degree granting college), School of Public Administration and Policy (degree granting department) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource (159 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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