Source: Margerum, Richard D. Author of: Beyond Consensus: Improving Collaborative Planning & Management MIT Press Overview  Political network concepts –Advocacy coalition framework –Policy windows  Assessing networks  Mono Lake case discussion

Source: Margerum, Richard D. Author of: Beyond Consensus: Improving Collaborative Planning & Management MIT Press Advocacy Coalition Framework  Policies Develop Through Coalitions  Coalitions are Bound by Belief Systems –Core Beliefs (e.g., human induced climate change) –Core Policy Beliefs (e.g., government regulation of GHG) –Secondary Beliefs (e.g., GHG cap and trade)  Assertions –Core beliefs are hard to change –Policy beliefs are adaptable

Source: Margerum, Richard D. Author of: Beyond Consensus: Improving Collaborative Planning & Management MIT Press Policy Windows  Streams in a Political System –Problems: events or crises –Policies: policy ideas or concepts –Politics: national mood, political changes  Policy Windows –Coupling opens windows –Some windows may be continuously opened –How window is opened affects approach

Source: Margerum, Richard D. Author of: Beyond Consensus: Improving Collaborative Planning & Management MIT Press Relation to Political Networks  Summary of policy networks –Like social networks –Defined by policy and leadership power –Hard to sustain  Assessing the ability of a network for collaboration –An appealing forum to discuss issues –Key elected officials support the network –Collaborative has relevance to policy solutions –Network gets revitalized

Source: Margerum, Richard D. Author of: Beyond Consensus: Improving Collaborative Planning & Management MIT Press Mono Lake Case  What evidence is there of a political network?  What made collaboration attractive?  What made collaboration less relevant?  What are the lessons from Mono Lake?

Source: Margerum, Richard D. Author of: Beyond Consensus: Improving Collaborative Planning & Management MIT Press Group Discussion: INSERT CASE

Source: Margerum, Richard D. Author of: Beyond Consensus: Improving Collaborative Planning & Management MIT Press Discussion  Political networks are fluid –Examples? –Why are they fluid?  Accountability –Network forums may support innovative work –Network forums may reduce transparency  Should we assume networks won’t be sustained?