ABSTRACT

Multilevel governance offers different settings to study executive decision-making and delegation. Associations of municipalities (AoMs), which are collaborative partnerships, are understudied arrangements in the delegation literature. Using a survey experiment with 240 Colombian mayors, this research explores whether issue specificity and issue salience shift preferences for delegating funding appropriations. Mayors overall prefer not to delegate and shifts in issue salience do not affect these preferences. Yet, mayors are less likely to delegate to regional AoMs when facing a policy-specific scenario. Moreover, this effect is contingent upon municipal population due to the relevance of cognitive shortcuts in more complex scenarios.

摘要

多级治理提供了不同的设置来研究行政决策和授权。作为合作伙伴关系的市政协会（AoMs）在代表团文献中是未被充分研究的安排。通过对 240 名哥伦比亚市长的调查实验，本研究探讨了问题的特殊性和问题的突出性是否会改变对拨款拨款的偏好。市长们总体上不喜欢下放权力，而且问题突出性的变化不会影响这些偏好。然而，在面临特定政策的情况时，市长不太可能委托给区域 AoM。此外，由于认知捷径在更复杂的场景中的相关性，这种影响取决于城市人口。