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Part I: Resource Users, Resource Systems, and Behavior in the Drama of the Commons
Pages 37-40

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... theory (Chapter 5) and predictions induced in a more bottom-up fashion from observed behavioral regularities in controlled laboratory studies (Chapter 4)
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... provide a very useful classification and road map to the effects of a large number of user and user group characteristics and situational variables that have been shown to affect behavior in commons dilemmas. Agrawal's critical analysis and synthesis of political science field studies of commons management regimes (Chapter 2)
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... In summary, the following four chapters provide us with a rich account of the way in which user and user group characteristics interact with resource system characteristics and affect the processes by which institutions are crafted, the types of institutions that emerge, the degree to which they are implemented successfully, and the way in which resulting conflicts are resolved. In combination, they show us that much has been learned over the past 15 years, with some substantive insights and perhaps more importantly significant methodological and metatheoretical insights.
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Key Terms

  • field studies
  • economic heterogeneity
  • commons management
  • road map
  • resource users

  • controlled laboratory
  • versus effects
  • management regimes
  • distinctions allow
  • includes user

  • dilemma outcomes
  • commons dilemmas
  • task characteristics
  • authors draw
  • optimization function

  • carefully controlled
  • skillful hands
  • alternative process
  • observed regularities
  • contingent solutions

  • successful commons
  • reconcile apparently
  • apparently contradictory
  • external environment
  • political science

  • situational variables
  • critical analysis
  • cooperation versus
  • unresolved questions
  • management dilemmas


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