Multiorganizational Arrangements for Watershed Protection

Madeleine Wright McNamara is an adjunct assistant professor in the School of Public Service at Old Dominion University. She served previously as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Orleans and as the Waterways Management Coordinator for the U.S. Coast Guard's Eighth District in New Orleans. Her research interests include collaboration, public policy, and interorganizational theory. Her work appears in journals such as Public Works Management & Policy, the International Journal of Public Administration, Policy & Politics, and the Journal for Nonprofit Management, among others. In addition, she authored chapters in Speaking Green with a Southern Accent: Environmental Management and Innovation in the South (2010), and Advancing Collaboration Theory: Models, Typologies, and Evidence (2016; Routledge).John Charles Morris is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Auburn University. He has studied collaboration, public-private partnerships, and state comparative policy for more than twenty-five years, and has published widely in public administration and public policy. Dr. Morris has a significant number of publications. He is the co-editor of Speaking Green with a Southern Accent: Environmental Management and Innovation in the South (2010), and True Green: Executive Effectiveness in the US Environmental Protection Agency (2012). Dr. Morris is also the co-editor of Building the Local Economy: Cases in Economic Development, published by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia, in 2008, and is the co-editor of a three-volume series (2012) on prison privatization, titled Prison Privatization: The Many Facets of a Controversial Industry. His most recent co-authored books include The Case for Grassroots Collaboration: Social Capital and Ecosystem Restoration at the Local Level (2013); Advancing Collaboration Theory: Models, Typologies, and Evidence (2016; Routledge, co-edited with Katrina Miller-Stevens); State Implementation of the Affordable Care Act: Choices and Decisions (2019, Routledge); and Organizational Motivation for Collaboration: Theory and Evidence (forthcoming 2019, with Luisa Diaz-Kope). In addition, he has published more than sixty-five articles in refereed journals, and nearly forty book chapters, reports, and other publications.