Date of Award

1-1-2009

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Public Administration and Policy

Content Description

1 online resource (vii, 219 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map.

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Sue R. Faerman

Committee Members

Christopher F. D'Elia, David P. McCaffrey

Keywords

Case Study, Collaboration, Competing Values Framework, Conflict, Paradox, Watershed Management, Natural resources, Watershed management

Subject Categories

Public Administration

Abstract

Collaboration has increasingly emerged in recent years as a new paradigm in public management. This collaborative trend, however, has contradicted the longstanding American political tradition of conflictual contestation of competing interests and adversarial legalism. Consequently, it has presented public managers with the challenge of dealing in reality with the "tensions between alternative forms of management practice" (Huxham and Vangen 2005, 245). In most accounts, watershed management has recently become a particularly active arena for that clash of opposing collaborative and conflictual managerial practices.

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