Collaborative governance platforms as a franchising model: the principal-agent problem of distributed local implementation

• In Event: Procurement and Sustainability

Brief Overview

Using California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act–which mandates formation of local agencies to govern basins–we expand the collaborative governance platform model to recognize the principal-agent problem of distributed systems.

Authors

• Tyler Andrew Scott, University of California-Davis

• Elise Zufall, University of California-Davis

• Mark N. Lubell, University of California-Davis

• Linda Mendez-Barrientos, University of Denver