The Politics of Cooperation: Community-Based Enviornmental Protection

这项研究调查了美国已经实施的基于社区的环境保护协议。这项研究使用交易成本框架来分析限制和促进管理者、政客和利益集团之间合作的因素，这些利益集团就跨越许多政治司法管辖区的政策协议进行谈判。该项目综合了2,000多个流域的信息，采访了这些流域样本中的大量利益攸关方，然后使用案例研究方法对少数几个流域进行了深入研究。这项研究加深了对如何为特定机构环境和环境领域量身定做合作协议的理解。

This research investigates community-based environmental protection agreements that have been implemented for watersheds in the United States. The research uses a transaction cost framework to analyze the factors constraining and facilitating cooperation among the administrators, politicians and interest groups that negotiate policy agreements cutting across many political jurisdictions. The project consolidates information from more than 2,000 watersheds, interviews a large number of stakeholders from a sample of those watersheds and then uses case study methods to intensively study a handful of watersheds. This research provides an enhanced understanding of the ways in which cooperative agreements can be tailored for specific institutional settings and environmental domains.