Incentives for Collaboration

There is little doubt that the role of governments in policy formation and implementation is changing in a number of policy arenas (Pierre and Peters 2000). Government is increasingly attempting to serve as a facilitator rather than a leader. One important example of this transformation is state-level programs for the remediation and redevelopment of brownfields. While researchers know that states combine common policy features in their state level programs (ICF Consulting and The E.P. Systems Group, Inc. 1999), they know relatively little about how such combinations of features may facilitate or deter collaboration and action on brownfield projects (Reisch and Bearden 2003; GAO 2004).