-MAPUM,, 



Agencies and individuals dealing with water resources issues often have 

 requested a systematic procedure for preparing decision-making strategies and 

 for anticipating the concerns of the participating organizations in a negoti- 

 ation. They have suggested that institutional analysis techniques be used for 

 this, and LIAM is one such tool. 



With the information gained from the questionnaire in the -QUERY,, program 

 and arranged in the -MAPUM,, program, you are in a position to view your 

 agency and other participating groups from a creative and problem-solving 

 perspective. 



The -MAPUM,, program is the main source of output from the LIAM question- 

 naires. In order to benefit from -MAPUM,, you must be describing at least two 

 organizations with the data from at least three completed questionnaires for 

 each organization. The more data, i.e., more questionnaire respondents, the 

 better your results. The -MAPUM,, program uses the data from the question- 

 naires to produce a plot that can be routed to your line printer. The -MAPUM,, 

 program: 



* combines and summarizes all the questionnaire responses for a given 

 agency; 



* identifies the roles of each agency, describing expected concerns and 

 behaviors; 



* quantifies power scores for each agency according to resources, informa- 

 tion, and support; and 



* compares each agency's scores by creating a graph of the data. 



All of these products are stored in the MAPO local file that is automati- 

 cally created by the -MAPUM,, program. 



For a more complete explanation of -MAPUM,, and LIAM capabilities, you 

 are encouraged to participate in course IFG 310 offered by the Instream Flow 

 Group. We also suggest that you refer to Instream Flow Information Paper #23 

 for a detailed exposition of the multidimensional possibilities and uses of 

 LIAM. 



To begin the -MAPUM,, program, after a computer response of: 



READY or / 

 type: 



-MAPUM,, your filename [CR] 



(See Example 7. ) 



The first information you will see on your screen is a list of names, 

 dates, times, and abbreviations for organizations or groups that you have 



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