CONTENTS 



FIGURES IV 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS v 



1 . 1 ^ITRODUCTION 1 



2. NSTREAM FLOW: AN OVERVIEW 5 



2.1. The West: Appropriation 7 



2.2. The East: Riparian Rights 9 



2.3. The Cedar River 11 



3. LIAM: THE THEORY 17 



3.1. Incremental i sm 17 



3.2. Decision Arena 19 



3.3. Organizational Process 20 



3.4. Group Psychology 22 



3.5. Bureaucratic Politics 24 



3.6. Power 24 



3.7. Summary 25 



4. THE FOUR PHASES OF LIAM 29 



4.1. Phase I: Survey of Authorities 29 



4.2. Phase II: Role Analysis 32 



4.3. Phase III: Power Analysi s 41 



4.4. Phase IV: Behavior Analysis 42 



5. LIAM: THE COMPUTER MODEL 46 



5.1. The Computer Programs 46 



5.2. Preliminary Steps Before Running Query 47 



5.3. Phase I: Query: Survey of Authorities 50 



5.4. Phase II: Query: Role Analysis 51 



5.5. Phase III: Query: Power Analysis 53 



5.6. Looky 55 



5.7. Mapum 56 



5. PHASE IV: BEHAVIORAL ANALYSES AND STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT 62 



6.1. Formi ng a Task Group 62 



6.2. Context of the Issue 62 



6.3. Coalitions 71 



6.4. General Strategies 76 



6.5. Defining Success 77 



REFERENCES 78 



APPENDICES 87 



I. LIAM Subquadrant Descriptions 87 



II. User's Manual for the Legal-Institutional Analysis Model 92 



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