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Comparative urban water governance: A research agenda on policy transfer and learning across multiple case studies

Comparative urban water governance: A research agenda on policy transfer and learning across multiple case studies

A talk presented at the Seminar on Themes, Data and Methods to Build a Research Agenda on Cities

Raul Pacheco-Vega

June 23, 2016
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  1. Comparative urban water governance: A
    research agenda on policy transfer and
    learning across multiple case studies
    SEMINARIO: TEMAS, DATOS Y MÉTODOS PARA LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DE
    UNA AGENDA DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE CIUDADES
    Raul Pacheco-Vega
    Public Administration Division
    Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)
    Sede Región Centro
    Aguascalientes, Ags. June 23, 2016

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  2. Agenda
     Context:
     A brief summary of my research on comparative public policy
     (water governance, solid waste management)
     Current project(s):
     The spatial, political and human dimensions of public service delivery
     Future research agenda
     Policy learning across different cities/metropolitan regions
     (specific to the field of water governance)

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  3. Context: What kind of research do I
    do?
     Wastewater governance
     Scale mismatch and jurisdictional overlap in effluent management
     Lerma-Chapala river basin
     Challenging conventional wisdom that river basin councils as
    institutional reforms actually operate
     Solid waste in the informal sector
     The role of informal waste pickers in the governance of discards
     Relationships between local governments and informal sector
    (confrontational – collaborative)

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  4. My newest project…
     Essays on the global, comparative and domestic politics of bottled
    water (NYU Press)
     Bottled water as a public policy problem
     Regulatory framework
     Determinants of BW consumption
     A zero-sum game? Weakening municipal water utilities and enriching BW
    companies.
     The comparative politics of domestic water consumption (BW and TW)
     Ireland
     Spain
     Mexico
     France

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  5. In the future… research agenda
     Comparative urban water governance
     Derived from (or based in) the literature on comparative urban governance (as well as
    comparative public policy)
    Pierre, J. 2005. “Comparative Urban Governance: Uncovering Complex Causalities.” Urban
    Affairs Review 40(4):446–62.
    DiGaetano, Alan and Elizabeth Strom. 2003. “Comparative Urban Governance: An
    Integrated Approach.” Urban Affairs Review 38(3):356–95.
    Guarneros-Meza, Valeria. 2009. “Mexican Urban Governance: How Old and New
    Institutions Coexist and Interact.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
    33(2):463–82.
    Denters, B. 2006. “Building Blocks for a Methodology for Comparative Urban Political
    Research.” Urban Affairs Review 41(4):550–71.
    Ward, K. 2010. “Towards a Relational Comparative Approach to the Study of Cities.”
    Progress in Human Geography 34(4):471–87.

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  6. CUG + PT + water = a really cool
    project
     Mukhtarov, Farhad. 2014. “Rethinking the Travel of Ideas : Policy Translation in
    the Water Sector.” Policy & Politics 42(1):71–88.
     Dolowitz, David and David Marsh. 1996. “Who Learns What from Whom: A
    Review of the Policy Transfer Literature.” Political Studies 21:343–51.
     Shipan, Charles R. and Craig Volden. 2012. “Policy Diffusion: Seven Lessons for
    Scholars and Practitioners.” Public Administration Review 72(December):788–96.
     McLean, Bronwyn L. and Thomas Borén. 2014. “Barriers to Implementing
    Sustainability Locally: A Case Study of Policy Immobilities.” Local Environment
    9839(March 2015):37–41.
     Mossberger, Karen and Harold Wolman. 2003. “Policy Transfer as a Form of
    Prospective Policy Evaluation: Challenges and Recommendations.” Public
    Administration Review 63(4):428–40.

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  7. Comparisons can help posit/understand/resolve
    multicausal explanations
     In the water sector
     Why do some cities opt for private water supply instead of public?
     What factors have driven success in adoption of private water
    contracts?
     How does the governance of water in one city translate into another?
     What lessons can we draw from the way in which water governance is
    done in Country A/City B/Metropolitan Zone C?

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  8. My current & future projects fit
    within the proposed programme of
    research
     BW is definitely a city issue.
     Wastewater most definitely is a city/metropolitan issue.
     Water supply is obviously a city/metropolitan issue.
     Maybe time to launch a comparative study across different cities?
     Edited volume? Special issue?
     Programme of work -> consistent with objectives of this group

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  9. Current project that would fit this
    framework…
     Remunicipalization in 7 case studies
     Paris and Grenoble
     Berlin and Potsdam
     Hamilton
     Atlanta
     Ramos Arizpe
     Taller de Gobernanza del Agua 2014 (CIDE Santa Fe), GIGAPP 2014,
    MPSA 2016
     Edited volume - Pacheco-Vega (Ed.) 2017

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  10. Thank you!
     Raul Pacheco-Vega
    [email protected]
     http://www.raulpacheco.org
     Twitter: @raulpacheco

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