Polycentric Governance and Development: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis

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University of Michigan Press, 1999 - 432 páginas
How do local communities collectively manage those resources that are most important to their own survival or prosperity? Wherever they are located, all communities face similar dilemmas of collective action: how can common goals be realized despite the presence of individual incentives to over-exploit common resources for private gain? The readings collected in Polycentric Governance and Development show the achievements of scholars associated with the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University in understanding how communities have dealt with dilemmas of collective action. Their analyses also have profound implications for broader issues of development.
The central insight of the research collected in the volume is this: much can be learned by a careful examination of the ways in which local communities have organized themselves to solve collective problems, achieve common aspirations, and resolve conflicts. The first two sections deal with efforts to manage water and other common-pool resources on a relatively small scale. Section three moves to the macro-level of analysis, with particular attention given to examples of constitutional order from Africa, while section four demonstrates that local organizations and informal networks can play essential roles in furthering democratization and development. The concluding section addresses issues at the national level, by linking the practical world of resource management and development policy to the abstract world of the policy analyst. This collection of essays is designed to illustrate how all the pieces fit together and to suggest connections among multiple levels and modes of analysis.
Contributors include Paula C. Baker, William Blomquist, Larry L. Kiser, Ronald J. Oakerson, Elinor Ostrom, Vincent Ostrom, Roger B. Parks, Stephen L. Percy, Charles M. Tiebout, Martha Vandivort, Robert Warren, Gordon P. Whitaker, and Rick Wilson.
Michael McGinnis is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Co-Associate Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University.
 

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Water and Politics California Style
31
Legal and Political Conditions of Water Resource Development
42
Institutional Capacity and the Resolution of a Commons Dilemma
60
Design Principles in LongEnduring Irrigation Institutions
74
Property Rights Regimes and Coastal Fisheries An Empirical Analysis
87
Mobile Flows Storage and SelfOrganized Institutions for Governing CommonPool Resources
114
A Forgotten Tradition The Constitutional Level of Analysis
151
Cryptoimperialism Predatory States and SelfGovernance
166
Improving the Performance of SmallScale Irrigation Systems The Effects of Technological Investments and Governance Structure on Irrigation Perf...
269
Institutional Design of Public Agencies and Coproduction A Study of Irrigation Associations in Taiwan
296
Informal Credit Markets and Economic Development in Taiwan
326
Crossing the Great Divide Coproduction Synergy and Development
346
Artisanship and Artifact
377
Problems of Cognition as a Challenge to Policy Analysts and Democratic Societies
394
Suggested Further Readings
417
Contributors
421

The Concentration of Authority Constitutional Creation in the Gold Coast 1950
186
Local Organizations and Development The African Experience
209
Institutional Analysis and Decentralization Developing an Analytical Framework for Effective Third World Administrative Reform
243

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