Legal-Institutional Analysis Model (LIAM): A Validation Study. Instream Flow Information Paper Number 25

摘要

The Legal-Institutional Analysis Model (LIAM) is a dynamic approach to the identification, characterization, and analysis of organizations involved in the negotiation of environmental regulatory policies as applied to site-specific water resource projects. This approach recommends and provides for a consideration of the legal and policy constraints that shape both the implementation process and the outcome, but the focus is on the identification and analysis of the network of organizations involved in a given conflict. The results of an LIAM analysis, based on the concepts of organizational role and power, can be used to develop concrete strategies for participating in the negotiations that inevitably occur. In the paper, the reliability and validity of the LIAM, and the questionnaire developed therefrom, are examined and explained. The results of the study provide a substantial amount of evidence for the validity of the LIAM.