Does Belief Convergence Foster Negotiated Policy Change?: Evidence from a High-Conflict Collaborative Environmental Governance Process

• In Event: Conflict and Cooperation in Environmental Governance

Brief Overview

Guided by the Advocacy Coalition Framework, this paper tests whether belief convergence fosters negotiated policy change by analyzing how coalitions’ beliefs change as they participate in a decade-long collaborative water governance process.

Authors

• Elizabeth Koebele, University of Nevada Reno

• Deserai Crow, University of Colorado Denver