Second, although we have documented the communication linkages and access patterns
that exist between the fiscal, policy, and collaborative networks, future work needs
to better specify the nature of the interactions that occur between these components of
a network system. The fiscal and policy networks may be considered the ‘‘authorizing
environment’’ of the collaborative network. How do members of the collaborative network
attempt to concretely steer the authorizers? Are information, suasion, and political solidarity the primary currency of these relationships, or might one also find resource exchange