Resolving water conflicts: A comparative analysis of interstate river compacts

Policy Studies Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 367-392

  Schlager, Edella ^a   Heikkila, Tanya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict resolution; Institutional analysis and development framework; Interstate compacts; Qualitative comparative analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; DISPUTE RESOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; RIVER MANAGEMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 68349127127     PISSN: 0190292X     EISSN: 15410072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2009.00319.x     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Alcock, Frank. 2002. "Bargaining, Uncertainty, And Property Rights in Fisheries." World Politics 54 (4): 437-61.
2. Bennett, Lynne L., and Charles W. Howe. 1998. "The Interstate River Compact: Incentives for Non-Compliance." Water Resources Research 34 (3): 485-95.
3. Bowman, Ann. 2004. "Horizontal Federalism: Exploring Interstate Interactions." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 14: 535-46.
4. Bowman, Ann, and Neal Woods. 2008. "Strength in Numbers: Why States Join Interstate Compacts." State Politics and Policy Quarterly 7 (4): 347-68.
5. Breitmeier, Helmut, Oran Young, and Michael Zorn. 2006. Analyzing International Environmental Regimes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
6. Buchanan, James M., and Gordon Tullock. 1962. The Calculus of Consent, Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
7. Carpenter, Delph. 1925. "South Platte River Compact Report of Delph E. Carpenter Commissioner of Colorado." Denver, Colorado, January 7.
8. Coglianese, Cary. 1997. "Assessing Consensus: The Promise and Performance of Negotiated Rulemaking." Duke Law Journal 46: 1255-337.
9. Coglianese, Cary. 1999. "The Limits of Consensus." Environment 41 (3): 28-32.
10. Coglianese, Cary, and Laurie K. Allen. 2004. "Does Consensus Make Common Sense? An Analysis of EPA's Common Sense Initiative." Environment 46 (1): 10-25.
11. Crawford, Sue, and Elinor Ostrom. 1995. "A Grammar of Institutions." American Political Science Review 89 (3): 582-600.
12. Derthick, Martha. 1974. Between State and Nation: Regional Organizations of the United States. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.
13. Fearon, James. 1998. "Bargaining, Enforcement, and International Cooperation." International Organization 52 (2): 269-305.
14. Featherstone, Jeffrey P. 1999. An Evaluation of Federal-Interstate Compacts as an Institutional Model for Intergovernmental Coordination and Management: Water Resources for Interstate River Basins in the United States. PhD diss., Temple University.
15. Florestano, Patricia S. 1994. "Past and Present Utilization of Interstate Compacts in the United States." Publius 24 (4): 13-25.
16. Gaenslen, Fritz. 1996. "Motivational Orientation and the Nature of Consensual Decision Processes: A Triangulated Approach." Political Research Quarterly 49 (1): 27-49.
17. Giardot, Joseph. W. 1989. "Toward a Rational Scheme of Interstate Water Compact Adjudication." University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 22: 151-78.
18. Grant, Douglas L. 2003. "Interstate Water Allocation Compacts: When the Virtue of Permanence Becomes the Vice of Inflexibility." University of Colorado Law Review 74: 105-80.
19. Gregory, Robin, Tim McDaniels, and Daryl Fields. 2001. "Decision Aiding and Not Dispute Resolution: Creating Insights Through Structured Environmental Decisions." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 20 (3): 415-32.
20. Hasday, Jill E. 1997. "Interstate Compacts in a Democratic Society: The Problem of Permanency." Florida Law Review 49: 1-47.
21. Heikkila, Tanya, and Andrea Gerlak. 2005. "The Formation of Large-scale Collaborative Resource Management Institutions: Clarifying the Roles of Stakeholders, Science, and Institutions." Policy Studies Journal 33 (4): 583-612.
22. Hill, James Perry. 1992. Managing the Nation's Waters Without Washington: The Interstate Compact Experience. PhD diss., Michigan State University.
23. Kenney, Douglas S. 2000. Arguing About Consensus: Examining the Case Against Western Watershed Initiatives and Other Collaborative Groups in Natural Resources Management. Research Report No. 23. Boulder: University of Colorado Natural Resources Law Center.
24. Knight, Jack. 1992. Institutions and Social Conflict. New York: Cambridge University Press.
25. Knox, Kenneth. 2004. The Allocation of Interstate Groundwater: Evaluation of the Republican River Compact as a Case Study. PhD diss., Colorado State University.
26. Koontz, Tomas M., Toddi A. Steelman, JoAnn Carmin, Katrina Smith Korfmacher, Cassandra Moseley, and Craig W. Thomas. 2004. Collaborative Environmental Management: What Roles for Government? Washington, DC: RFF Press.
27. Lach, Denise, Helen Ingram, and Steve Rayner. 2006. "You Never Miss the Water 'Till the Well Runs Dry: Crisis and Creativity in California." In Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World, ed. Marco Verweij, and Michael Thompson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 226-40.
28. Landre, Peter, and Lester Travis. 1998. "Collaborative Watershed Management in the Finger Lakes Region, New York." Paper presented at the International Association for the Study of Common Property Biannual Meeting, Bloomington, Indiana. http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/ archive/00000077/00/landre.pdf. Accessed June 15, 2009.
29. Layzer, Judith. 2008. Natural Experiments: Ecosystem Based Management and the Environment. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
30. Leach, Richard, and Reading Sugg. 1959. The Administration of Interstate Compacts. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
31. Leach, William D., Neil Pelkey, and Paul Sabatier. 2002. "Stakeholder Partnerships as Collaborative Policy Making: Evaluation Criteria Applied to Watershed Management in California and Washington." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 21 (4): 645-70.
32. Leach, William D., and Paul Sabatier. 2005. "To Trust an Adversary: Integrating Rational and Psychological Models of Collaborative Policymaking." American Political Science Review 99 (4): 491-503.
33. Leach, William D., and Paul Sabatier. 2006. "Are Trust and Social Capital the Keys to Success? Watershed Partnerships in California and Washington." In Swimming Upstream: Collaborative Approaches to Watershed Management, ed. Paul Sabatier, Will Focht, Mark Lubell, Zev Trachtenberg, Arnold Vedlitz, and Mary Matlock. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 233-58.
34. Lubell, Mark, et al. 2006. "Conclusions and Recommendations." In Swimming Upstream: Collaborative Approaches to Watershed Managemented, ed. Paul Sabatier, Will Focht, Mark Lubell, Zev Trachtenberg, Arnold Vedlitz, and Mary Matlock. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 261-96.
35. Lubell, Mark, Mark Schneider, John Scholz, and Mihrye Mete. 2002. "Watershed Partnerships and the Emergence of Collective Action Institutions." American Journal of Political Science 46 (1): 48-63.
36. Margerum, Richard. 2007. "Overcoming Locally Based Collaboration Constraints." Society and Natural Resources 20: 135-52.
37. Miller, Charles. 1985. "Group Decision Making Under Majority and Unanimity Decision Rules." Social Psychology Quarterly 48 (1): 51-61.
38. Miller, Gary. 1993. Managerial Dilemmas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
39. Muys, Jerome. 2004. "The Western States' Experience With Interstate Water Issues" Paper prepared for the panel "Lessons From the West," sponsored by American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, at the conference Eastern Water Resources: Law, Policy and Technology, Hollywood, Florida, May 6-7.
40. Muys, Jerome, George William Sherk, and Marilyn O'Leary. 2007. "Utton Transboundary Resources Center Model Interstate Water Compact." Natural Resources Journal 47: 18-115.
41. Ostrom, Elinor. 2000. "The Danger of Self-Evident Truths." PS: Political Science and Politics 33 (1): 33-44.
42. Ostrom, Elinor. 2005. Understanding Institutional Diversity. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
43. Ragin, Charles. 1987. The Comparative Method. Berkeley: University of California Press.
44. Ragin, Charles. 2000. Fuzzy Set Analysis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
45. Ragin, Charles. 2006. "User's Guide to Fuzzy-Set/Qualitative Comparative Analysis." http://www.u.arizona.edu/~cragin/fsQCA/. Accessed June 15, 2009.
46. Ragin, Charles. 2008a. Redesigning Social Inquiry: Fuzzy Sets and Beyond. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
47. Ragin, Charles. 2008b. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis Using Fuzzy Sets (fsQCA)." In Configurational Comparative Methods, ed. Benoit Rihoux and Charles Ragin. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 87-121.
48. Republican River Compact Commission. 1960. Annual Report. Lincoln, NE: Republican River Compact Commission.
49. Republican River Compact Commission. 1970. Annual Report. Lincoln, NE: Republican River Compact Commission.
50. Sabatier, Paul, Will Focht, Mark Lubell, Zev Trachtenberg, Arnold Vedlitz, and Marty Matlock. 2005. Swimming Upstream: Collaborative Approaches to Watershed Management. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 3-22.
51. Scharpf, Fritz. 1997. Games Real Actors Play. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
52. Sherk, George W. 2005. "The Management of Interstate Water Conflicts in the 21st Century: Is it Time to Call Uncle?" New York University Environmental Law Journal 12 (3): 764-827.
53. Thomas, Craig. 2003. Bureaucratic Landscapes: Interagency Cooperation and the Preservation of Landscapes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
54. Thursby, Vincent. 1953. Interstate Cooperation: A Study of the Interstate Compact. Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press.
55. Tsebelis, George. 1992. Nested Games: Rational Choice in Comparative Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press.
56. Weber, Edward P. 2003. Bringing Society Back In. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
57. Weissert, Carol S., and Jeffery S. Hill. 1994. "Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compacts: Lessons Learned from Theory and Practice." Publius 24 (4): 27-43.
58. Zimmerman, Frederick L., and Mitchell Wendell. 1951. The Interstate Compact Since 1925. Chicago: Chicago Council of State Governments.
59. Zimmerman, Joseph F. 2002. Interstate Cooperation: Compacts and Administrative Agreements. Westport, CT: Praeger.