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Rules for Collaboration: Institutional Analysis of Group Membership and Levels of Action in Watershed Partnerships
Author(s) -
Hardy Scott D.,
Koontz Tomas M.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
policy studies journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1541-0072
pISSN - 0190-292X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2009.00320.x
Subject(s) - collective action , watershed , government (linguistics) , action (physics) , group (periodic table) , affect (linguistics) , business , state (computer science) , public administration , political science , public economics , public relations , computer science , economics , sociology , politics , law , communication , machine learning , linguistics , philosophy , physics , chemistry , organic chemistry , algorithm , quantum mechanics
This study employs the Institutional Analysis and Development framework across three collaborative watershed partnerships with differing membership profiles (government centered, citizen centered, or mixed) to determine how rules at varying levels of action (operational rules, collective‐choice rules, and constitutional rules) affect the formation and implementation of rules‐in‐use at different levels. Examining trends across group types at varying levels of action helps illuminate how the operational rules produced by different types of partnerships result in outputs that impact watershed management. Results show that the source of rules and their impact on subsequent levels of action vary by group type, with federal and state policies playing a larger role in government‐centered and mixed‐membership groups than in citizen‐centered groups.