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 language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 955-967 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Policy Studies Journal |
Volume | 52 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 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