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1 online resource (352 pages) |
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1st ed. |
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperbound Edition -- On a Plateau All By Itself: An Introduction to the Paperbound Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. Water, Indians, and Iron Triangles -- Introduction -- Iron Triangles: Sources of Political Power -- Iron Triangles, Water Policy, and Change -- Conclusion -- Chapter Two. Federal Water Development at the Turn of the Century -- Introduction -- The Federal-State Relationship -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Eastern Vote -- Interest Group Support -- Turn-of-the-Century Pork Barrel -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three. The Winters Decision and Its Progeny -- Introduction -- The Role of the Justice Department -- The Court's Response -- The Congressional Response -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four. Non-Indian Water Development: The Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers -- Introduction -- The Bureau of Reclamation -- Three Problems -- Congress and Reclamation -- The Bureau as Administrative Agency -- Reclamation Interest Groups -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers -- Congress and the Corps -- The Corps as Administrative Agency -- Corps Interest Groups -- The General Policy Environment -- Distributive Policy -- The Norm of Reciprocity -- Autonomy -- Implementability -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five. The BIA Water Development Program -- Introduction -- The BIA's Official Water Rights Policy -- The BIA and the Winters Doctrine -- The BIA and the Prior Appropriation Doctrine -- A New Approach to Reserved Rights -- The Indian Iron Triangle -- Congress -- Interest Groups -- The BIA as Administrative Agency -- The General Policy Environment -- Postscript: Fort Belknap -- Conclusion -- Chapter Six. Conflict Among Programs and Priorities -- Introduction -- Indians, the BIA, and the Bureau of Reclamation -- Indians, the BIA, and the Army Corps of Engineers. |
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Indians, the Departments of Interior and Justice, and Conflict of Interest -- Federal-State Conflict -- Conclusion -- Chapter Seven. Contemporary Federal Water Development: The Battle Over Water Projects -- Introduction -- Attempted Reforms in the Water Policy Decision-Making Process -- Changes in Project Criteria -- Bureaucratic Reorganization -- Budgetary Reform -- Conflice over Appropriations and Authorization Bills -- A Contemporary Water Policy Iron Triangle? -- Conclusion -- Chapter Eight. The Politics of Contemporary Indian Water Rights -- Introduction -- Indian Water Rights and the Carter Administration -- Indian Water Rights and the Reagan Administration -- All-Inclusive Settlement Bills -- Settlement Bills for Individual Tribes -- Current Policies and Strategies -- An Indian Iron Triangle? -- Conclusion -- Chapter Nine. Conclusion -- Introduction -- The Indian Iron Triangle -- The Non-Indian Water Development Iron Triangle -- The Changing Concept of Iron Triangles -- Water Politics, Water Rights, and the Future -- Epilogue: Fort Belknap -- Appendix: Maps of the Continental United States Showing Federal Indian Reservations and Major Water Development Projects of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
| ISBN |
9780816550005 (electronic bk.) |
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