The Politics of Cooperation: Community-Based Enviornmental Protection

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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.