Abstract
Networked health and human service providers increasingly join each other to collectively weigh in on policy deliberations. Little attention has been paid to how features of service delivery networks are associated with collaboration in policy advocacy. By developing a relational account of joint policy advocacy in service delivery networks, we propose that organizational participation in dyadic joint policy advocacy is associated with the number of shared third-party ties (Simmelian ties), tangibility of resources exchanged in resource-based networks, and multiplexity of Simmelain ties. We test these hypotheses on a U.S.-based mental health network and a community-based elderly care network in China. The results indicate strong support for the posited hypotheses across two study sites.
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