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Tables of Contents for Governing the Commons
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Series editors' preface
xi
Preface
xiii
Reflections on the Commons
1
28
Three influential models
2
5
The tragedy of the commons
2
1
The prisoner's dilemma game
3
2
The logic of collective action
5
2
The metaphorical use of models
7
1
Current policy prescriptions
8
15
Leviathan as the ``only'' way
8
4
Privatization as the ``only'' way
12
1
The ``only'' way?
13
2
An alternative solution
15
3
An empirical alternative
18
3
Policy prescriptions as metaphors
21
2
Policies based on metaphors can be harmful
23
1
A challenge
23
6
An Institutional Approach to the Study of Self-Organization and Self-Governance in CPR Situations
29
29
The CPR situation
30
8
CPRs and resource units
30
3
Rational appropriators in complex and uncertain situations
33
5
Interdependence, independent action, and collective action
38
4
The theory of the firm
40
1
The theory of the state
41
1
Three puzzles: supply, commitment, and monitoring
42
3
The problem of supply
42
1
The problem of credible commitment
43
2
The problem of mutual monitoring
45
1
Framing inquiry
45
10
Appropriation and provision problems
46
4
Multiple levels of analysis
50
5
Studying institutions in field settings
55
3
Analyzing Long-Enduring, Self-Organized, and Self-Governed CPRs
58
45
Communal tenure in high mountain meadows and forests
61
8
Torbel, Switzerland
61
4
Hirano, Nagaike, and Yamanoka villages in Japan
65
4
Huerta irrigation institutions
69
13
Valencia
71
5
Murcia and Orihuela
76
2
Alicante
78
4
Zanjera irrigation communities in the Philippines
82
6
Similarities among enduring, self-governing CPR institutions
88
15
Clearly defined boundaries
91
1
Congruence between appropriation and provision rules and local conditions
92
1
Collective-choice arrangements
93
1
Monitoring
94
1
Graduated sanctions
94
6
Conflict-resolution mechanisms
100
1
Minimal recognition of rights to organize
101
1
Nested enterprises
101
2
Analyzing Institutional Change
103
40
The competitive pumping race
104
7
The setting
104
2
The logic of the water-rights game
106
5
The litigation game
111
16
The Raymond Basin negotiations
111
3
The West Basin negotiations
114
9
The Central Basin negotiations
123
2
Conformance of parties to negotiated settlements
125
2
The entrepreneurship game
127
6
Reasons for forming a district to include both basins
130
1
Reasons against forming a district to include both basins
131
2
The polycentric public-enterprise game
133
3
The analysis of institutional supply
136
7
Incremental, sequential, and self-transforming institutional change in a facilitative political regime
137
2
Reformulating the analysis of institutional change
139
4
Analyzing Institutional Failures and Fragilities
143
39
Two Turkish inshore fisheries with continuing CPR problems
144
2
California groundwater basins with continuing CPR problems
146
3
A Sri Lankan fishery
149
8
Irrigation development projects in Sri Lanka
157
16
The fragility of Nova Scotian inshore fisheries
173
5
Lessons to be learned from comparing the cases in this study
178
4
A Framework for Analysis of Self-Organizing and Self-Governing CPRs
182
35
The problems of supply, credible commitment, and mutual monitoring
185
7
A framework for analyzing institutional choice
192
22
Evaluting benefits
195
3
Evaluating costs
198
7
Evaluating shared norms and other opportunities
205
2
The process of institutional change
207
3
Predicting institutional change
210
4
A challenge to scholarship in the social sciences
214
3
Notes
217
28
References
245
26
Index
271