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Decentralization Can Increase Cooperation among Public Officials

May 5, 2021

PhD Candidate Adriana Molina Garzon and Dr. Krister P. Andersson have had their article "Decentralization Can Increase Cooperation among Public Officials" published in early view for the American Journal of Political Science . ABSTRACT Collective action among public officials is necessary for the effective delivery of many social services, but...

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Voluntary leadership and the emergence of institutions for self-governance

Oct. 16, 2020

By: Krister Andersson, Kimberlee Chang, Adriana Molina-Garzon Publication Date: October 2020 Abstract: Strong local institutions are important for the successful governance of common-pool resources (CPRs), but why do such institutions emerge in the first place and why do they sometimes not emerge at all? We argue that voluntary local leaders...

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Public Sector Governance Reform and the Motivation of Street鈥怢evel Bureaucrats in Developing Countries

June 16, 2020

Krister Andersson, 麻豆影院; Alan Zarychta, University of Chicago; Tara Grillos, Purdue Univerity. Published: December 30, 2019 Abstract: This article draws on health sector reform in Honduras to examine the mechanisms through which governance reforms shape the behavior of street鈥恖evel bureaucrats. It combines insights from behavioral public administration...

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Contextual factors that enable forest users to engage in tree-planting for forest restoration

June 16, 2020

Krister Andersson, 麻豆影院; Kimberlee Chang, 麻豆影院 Published: October 4, 2019 Abstract: Social, biophysical, and institutional contexts affect forest users鈥 incentives to work together to restore forests. With renewed government commitments to support such activities, we argue that effective interventions need to consider several context-specific...

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Meet Krister Andersson

Nov. 29, 2018

Krister Andersson became a professor in the CU Political Science Department in 2005 after a career with the United Nations. Andersson worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, focusing on issues of forest conservation. 鈥淒uring my time at the UN, we were asked by member governments to...

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Kimberlee Chang Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

April 19, 2018

Kimberlee Chang works with Dr. Krister Andersson to examine how governance institutions facilitate sustainable resource use by local communities. In her project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), she asks the research question "How do diverse communities work together to overcome common collective action...

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Drivers of adaptation: Responses to weather- and climate-related hazards in 60 local governments in the Intermountain Western U.S.

Sept. 25, 2017

Lisa Dilling, Elise Pizzi, John Berggren, Ashwin Ravikumar, Krister Andersson Abstract: Cities are key sites of action for adaptation to climate change. However, there are a wide variety of responses to hazards at the municipal level. Why do communities take adaptive action in the face of weather- and climate-related risk?...

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Local Politics of Environmental Disaster Risk Management: Institutional Analysis and Lessons from Chile.

Sept. 25, 2017

Valdivieso, P. and Andersson, K. Abstract: Why do some local governments successfully address issues related to environmental disaster risk management (EDRM), while others do not? This research contributes to a growing literature about the relationships between institutions, multilevel governance, and EDRM at the local level in developing countries. Supported by...

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Local Politics of Forest Governance: Why NGO Support Can Reduce Local Government Responsiveness

Sept. 25, 2017

Cook, Nathan J., Wright, Glenn D., Andersson, Krister P. Abstract: Concerned with the challenges of sustainable development, policy makers and scholars often urge nongovernmental organizations to increase their efforts to support governance of natural resources in developing countries. How does funding from external NGOs influence the responsiveness of local government...

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Institutional Drivers of Adaptation in Local Government Decision Making: Evidence from Chile. Climatic Change.

Sept. 25, 2017

Valdivieso, P.E., Andersson, K.P., Villena-Roldan, B. 2017. Abstract: We study how the local institutional context shapes local government decisions about responses to perceived threats of natural disasters and climatic change. We draw on institutional theories and field observations to develop hypotheses about the effects of municipal institutional arrangements, social capital,...

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