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Governing U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Self-Organizing and Multiplex Service Networks

University of Idaho, Moscow

Richard C. Feiock

Florida State University, Tallahassee

How are fragmented metropolitan areas characterized by multiple actors and multiple relationships governed? This has been a question of enduring interest in the study of local politics and policy. Recent works have made progress in understanding the emergence of self-organizing networks for individual service relationships. However, in the context of multiple service relationships, patterns of service networks that evolve as a consequence of local governments’ actions to address transaction problems have been long overlooked. This article begins to fill this gap in the literature by analyzing pay-for-service contracts across multiple municipal services in one metropolitan county in Florida. The results obtained from matrix correlation and matrix regression based on a quadratic assignment procedure reveal that local jurisdictions develop cross-service reciprocity networks in a multiple services contract environment to resolve credibility of commitment problems they encounter in entering and maintaining interlocal service contracts.

Key Words: metropolitan governance • self-organizing • multiplex networks • network regionalism

American Politics Research, Vol. 37, No. 5, 801-823 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1532673X09337466


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