Sustaining-the-Commons-v101
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Preface
I Theoretical background
Why Study the Commons?
What are the commons?
The tragedy
The common pasture of Hardin
The tragedy is not inevitable
Plan of the book
Critical reflections
Make yourself think
References
Defining Institutions
Overview
Institutional diversity
How to analyze institutions?
Action arenas and institutional analysis
Context of the action arena
Critical reflections
Make yourself think
References
Action Arenas and Action Situations
Action arenas
The basic working parts of action situations
Participants
Positions
Potential outcomes
Actions
Control
Information about the action situation
Costs and benefits
Linking action situations
Outcomes
Critical reflections
Make yourself think
References
Social Dilemmas
Introduction
Prisoner's dilemma
Social dilemmas as an action situation
Coordination games
A typology of goods
Critical reflections
Make yourself think
References
II Case Studies
Water Governance
Introduction
Water scarcity
Water abundance
Distribution of water: irrigation
Water pollution
Critical reflections
Make yourself think
References
Harvesting the Commons
Introduction
Domesticated animals
Wild animals
Forests
Critical reflections
Make yourself think
References
Design Principles to Sustain the Commons
Introduction
Institutional design principles
Examples of design principles
Well-defined boundaries
Proportional equivalence between benefits and costs
Collective-choice arrangements
Monitoring
Graduated sanctions
Conflict-resolution mechanisms
Minimal recognition of rights
Nested enterprises
Using design principles in practice
Threats to sustainable use of the commons
Rapid exogenous changes
Translation failures
Blueprint thinking
Corruption and rent seeking
Lack of large-scale supportive institutions
Critical reflections
Make yourself think
References
III Human Behavior
Social Dilemmas in the Laboratory
Experiments in social science
The trust game
How people make decisions
Ultimatum and dictator games
Bringing the lab to the field
Critical reflections
Make yourself think
References
Self-governance in the laboratory
Introduction
Common-pool resource action situations
Changing the CPR action situation
Communication
Costly sanctioning
CPR experiments in the field
More dynamic CPR experiments
Public good action situations
Communication and costly sanctioning
Critical reflections
Make yourself think
References
IV Rules of the Games
Classifying Rules
Introduction
How to classify rules
The seven types of rules in detail
Position rules
Boundary rules
Choice rules
Aggregation rules
Information rules
Payoff rules
Scope rules
Default conditions
Critical reflections
Make yourself think
References
Rules, Norms and Shared Strategies
Introduction
The syntax components
ATTRIBUTES
DEONTIC
AIM
CONDITIONS
OR ELSE
How to use the grammar of institutions?
Critical reflections
Make yourself think
References
V Applying the Framework
Public Health and Collective Action
Introduction
Vaccination
Organ donation
Sanitation
Critical reflections
Make yourself think
References
The Digital Commons
Introduction
Wikipedia: a global public good
Social networking
Intellectual property
Critical reflections
Make yourself think
References
Rules of the Game: Applications to Sport
Introduction
Individual sports
Team sports
Sport leagues
Performance-enhancing drugs
Boundary rules
Rule changes
Critical reflections
Make yourself think
References
Challenges ahead
What have we learned?
Why are there still so many problems in governance?
Closing
Critical reflections
Make yourself think
References
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