Governmental factors associated with state-wide interagency collaboration initiatives

摘要: In recent years, public safety agencies at various levels of government have joined together to share information and communicate when faced with incidents. Interagency collaboration initiatives this nature result in the creation Public Safety Networks (PSNs). PSNs may originate any level government, their user base span a single or multiple geographies. study, we focus on that are created be used United States state-level; is, they aim support some combination police other throughout one fifty U.S. states. The study seeks describe size maturity extant state-level PSNs, based upon factors derived from rational choice institutional theories. For each state, collected contextual data representing 135 different characteristics descriptors potentially relevant attributes. We produce parsimonious set predict collaboration, identify which cluster together, confirm evidence an underlying structure consistent what theories would predict. These then analyzed against indicators drawn extensive PSN attributes, as initial effort explain differences among state programs.