The "advocate" role characterizes agencies or groups that call for a 

 change in the developmental approach to water allocation. These agencies are 

 often without enabling legislation or are reactive to the initiative held by 

 other agencies. These groups rely on "crusading" and data to advance their 

 positions. 



The "broker" role characterizes agencies that allocate water through 

 their ability to physically control streams via impoundments. "Brokers" are 

 in a position to support either environmental or developmental interests. 

 They favor benefit-cost analyses, mechanisms for controlling flows, and 

 political considerations. Political considerations are possible due to the 

 nature of the groups either supporting or seeking favors from the "brokers." 

 "Brokers" prefer strategies that play activist agencies against each other to 

 obtain control of the balance of power. 



The "arbitrator" role characterizes agencies that have the statutory 

 authority to establish instream flow regimes, as well as the ability to legally 

 allocate water. These are usually policy-making agencies that rely on data 

 collected by others and make authoriti tati ve allocations after hearing evidence 

 from all sides. "Arbitrators" avoid political or public participation 

 strategies by relying mostly on legal or quasi-legal proceedings and management 

 strategies. 



After beginning the MAPO section of the program, LIAM will list the 

 groups that you created by name and assign quantified scores for each of the 

 designated categories of "broker," "arbitrator," "advocate," and "guardian." 

 These scores express the degree to which the groups are expected to follow 

 these designated roles. These scores are assigned a letter to represent the 

 groups that will appear on the graph we call the role-map (Figure 2). The 

 letters determine a position for each group within one of the 16 subquadrants 

 on the role-map. The further from the middle (or origin) on the continuum 

 that the agency is found, either right or left, is an indication of the degree 

 to which the agency being described exhibits that particular role type. The 

 closer to the origin, the more moderate its role intensity; proximity to the 

 edges suggests a more extreme role position. It is important to remember that 

 the role-map attempts to indicate the intensity of a particular role or combi- 

 nation of roles and does not suggest an agency's power. 



The computer creates eight subquadrants by drawing an invisible diagonal 

 line from the corners of the graph through the origin. Each subquadrant is 

 assigned a letter, A-J . (See sample graph of role-map. Figure 2). The 

 computer also draws an arc in each quadrant, which functionally creates another 

 eight subquadrants (eight inside and eight outside of the arc). The arc is 

 drawn as a function of the average distance from the origin to all the players 

 in a given quadrant. 



For the 132-column role-map, an arc can be accurately drawn as a function 

 of the average distance from the origin to the participating groups (also 

 called "players") in a given quadrant. The 80-column format is too small to 

 allow an accurate display of what the computer has calculated. In further 

 analyses, the role-map participants will be identified by their assigned 

 letter and the quadrant letter on your terminal screen. 



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