Multiorganizational Arrangements in the Governance of Unitary and Federal Political Systems

Abstract

The longer-term agenda of the core participants in this conference has focused upon the problem of addressing multiorganizational and interorganizational arrangements as a level of analysis. At recent meetings in Bloomington (1981) and in Berlin (1982), we were concerned with efforts to identify the multiplicity of both public and private organizations that interact with one another to organize: (1) the demand and supply aspects of public-service delivery systems and (2) the implementation of public policies. Modern developed societies rely upon complexly organized networks of multiorganizational arrangements to accomplish social tasks and this requires a self-conscious effort to address such arrangements as distinct levels of analysis and to develop analytical methods that are appropriate for that level of analysis. Primary attention was given to the use of “industry structures” and “implementation structures” as modes of analysis developed by collegues at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis (Bloomington) and the International Institute of Management (Berlin).