When Need Meets Opportunity: Expanding Local Air Networks
研究基于497个都市区数据，用逻辑回归模型分析地方政府在清洁空气法案外建立新服务网络的影响因素，发现政策问题、资源感知、网络密度及社会经济政治因素起作用。
Although the Clean Air Act (CAA) relies on a traditional inter-government partnership, new initiatives from local governments that fall outside of the conventional implementation strategy have created a unique public service delivery network by adding layers to the implementation scheme. Using both logistic and multinomial logistic models and a data set of 497 Metropolitan (MSA) and Micropolitian (µSA) areas, this research tests a model of network membership for local governments based on internal organizational and external network factors. Findings indicate policy problems, perceptions of resource availability, network density and structure, and socio-economic and political factors affect local initiative to expand networks.