GOVERNING THE COMMONS - The evolution of institutions for collective action
- Autor: Elinor Ostrom
- Ano: 1990
- ISBN/ISSN: 0-521-37101-5
- Editora: Cambridge University Press
- Link: Email saopaulo@cambridge.org
- Complemento: Contents
CHAPTER 1
Reflections on The Commons -1
Three influential models - 2
The tragedy of the commons - 2
The prisoner's dilemma game - 3
The logic of collective action - 5
The metaphorical use of models - 7
Current policy Prescriptions - 8
Leviathan as the "only" way - 8
Privatization as the "only" way - 12
The "only" way? - 13
An alternative solution - 15
An empirical alternative - 18
Policy perscriptions as metaphors - 21
Policies based on metaphors can be harmful - 23
A challenge - 23
CHAPTER 2
An Institutional Approach To The Study Of Self-Organization And Self-Governance In SPR Situation
The CPR situation - 29
CPRs and resources units - 30
Rational appropriators in complex and uncertain situations - 33
Interdependence,indepedent action,and collective action - 38
The theory of the firm - 40
The theory of the state - 41
Three puzzles: supply,commitment,and monitoring - 42
The problems of supply - 42
The problems of credible commitment - 43
The problems of mutual Monitoring - 45
Framing inquiry - 45
Appropriation and provision problems - 46
Multiple levels of analysis - 50
Studying institutions in field settings -55
CHAPTER 3
Analyzing Long-Enduring,Self-Organized,And Self-Governed CPRs - 58
Communal tenure in high mountain meadows and forests - 61
Torbel,Switzerland
Hirano,nagaike,and yamanoka villages in Japan - 65
Huerta irrigation institution - 69
Valencia - 71
Murcia and Orihuela - 76
Alicante - 78
Zanjera irrigation communities in the Philippines - 82
Similarities among enduring,self-governing CPR institutions - 88
Clearly defined boundaries - 91
Congruence between appropriation and provision rules and local conditions -92
Collective - choice arrangements - 93
Monitoring - 94
Graduated sanctions - 94
Conflict-resolution mechanism - 100
Minimal recognition of right to organize - 101
Nested enterprises - 101
CHAPTER 4
Analyzing institutional change - 103
The competitive pumping race - 104
The logic of the water-rights gme -106
The litigation game -111
The Raymond Basin negotiations - 111
The West basin negotiations - 114
The central basin litigation - 123
Conformance of parties to negotiated settlements - 125
The entrepreneurship game - 127
Reasons for forming a district to include both basins - 130
Reasons againist forming a district to include both basing - 131
The polycentric public -enterprise game - 133
The analysis of institutional supply - 136
Incremental,sequential,and self-transforming institutional - 137
Reformulating the analysis of institutional change - 139
CHAPTER 5
Analyzing institutional failures and fragilities - 143
Two turkish inshore fisheries with continuing CPR problems - 144
California groundwater basing with continuing CPR problems - 146
A Sri Lankan fishery - 149
Irrigation development projects in Sri Lanka -157
The fragility of nova scotain inshore fisheries - 173
Lessons to be learned from comparing the cases in this study - 178
CHAPTER 6
A framework for analysis of self-orgnizing and self-governing CPRs - 182
The problems of supply,credible commitment,and mutual monitoring - 185
Evaluation benefits - 192
Evaluation costs - 198
Evaluation shared norms and other opportunities -205
The process of institutional change - 207
Predicting institutional change - 210
A challenger to scholarship in the social sciences - 214
Notes - 217
References - 245
Index - 271