Shaping influence in governance networks: The role of motivations and information exchange

• DOI: 10.1111/padm.12942
• Publication Date: 2023-06-21T09:39:04Z
• Authors: Jose Antonio Reye...; Filip Agneessens; Marc Esteve
• Keywords: Information exchange; Prosocial Behavior; Language Change

Abstract In governance networks, some actors might have more influence than others in the group's collective decision‐making. This paper investigates whether an actor's prosocial and/or self‐interested motivations to participate a network help predict its level of group. We argue that information exchange is important mediator this relationship because tendency actively diffuse will depend on motivations; while other participants being exposed from actor are likely increase them. Using unique relational dataset 10 anti‐corruption multi‐stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) Latin America, Africa and Eurasia, we find actors, rather prosocially motivated ones, take lead information‐exchange activities. The data also shows how central role turn increases perceived among participants, conditioning potentially direction agreed‐upon objectives.