Partisan collaboration in policy adoption: An experimental study with local government officials

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Abstract

Partisanship plays a central role in the policy process, but its impact on the adoption of collaborative strategy by policymakers remains unknown. To fill this gap, I conducted a conjoint experiment involving municipal officials across the United States, examining the effect of co-partisanship on policy collaboration and its moderating impact on collaborative attributes such as resource allocation, reciprocal trust, and policy outcome. The findings reveal that a collaborating partner's co-partisanship status increases the likelihood of local policymakers adopting a program by 12.75 percentage points. Moreover, co-partisan program proposals generally enhance the favorability of collaborative attributes. Finally, the consistency of the co-partisanship effect across ideologies and various subgroups demonstrates that party identity is rooted in in-group loyalty and fundamentally affects the collaborative process.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)955-967
Number of pages13
JournalPolicy Studies Journal
Volume52
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2024

Keywords

  • co-partisanship
  • conjoint experiment
  • local government
  • policy collaboration

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Public Administration
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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