Governing the commons — the evolution of institutions for collective action

TL;DR: In this paper, an agent-based modeling approach was used to evaluate the performance of pasture rental markets and reciprocal pasture-use groups for climate change adaptation in the Mongolian grasslands.

TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-country comparison of the rates of deforestation is presented, showing a robust association between trust and deforestation while controlling for other theoretically relevant factors governing forest use, including democracy and economic development.

TL;DR: Based on network governance theory, the authors investigates the governance strategies used in Urumqi to integrate urban transport and land use policies, concluding that successful policy integration requires careful goal alignment strategies that force actors to shift from go-alone strategies to interaction and concerted actions; institutional design and trust-building are also imperative for joint action.

TL;DR: The economics of property rights and property law can be used to understand fundamental features of property law and related extra-legal institutions as discussed by the authors, where the authors argue that property rights can be best understood as a system of societal rules designed to maximize social wealth.

TL;DR: The authors argue that community governance addresses some common market and state failures but typically relies on insider-outsider distinctions that may be morally repugnant and economically costly, and the individual motivations supporting community governance are not captured by either selfishness or altruism.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative cross-case analysis of six watershed programs is presented to examine how collaboration is used to enhance governance of networks where problem-solving capacity is widely dispersed and few organizations accomplish their missions by acting alone.

TL;DR: The authors argued that the current dominant discourse on institutions and economic development suffers from a number of theoretical problems, such as the neglect of the causality running from development to institutions, the inability to see the impossibility of a free market, and the belief that the freest market and the strongest protection of private property rights are best for economic development.

TL;DR: From interdependence and institutions to globalization and governance as mentioned in this paper, the concept of legalization has been proposed as an alternative to the Hobbe's Dilemma in international politics.