Working Together : Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Part One: Introduction; Chapter One Overcoming Methodological Challenges; Social Science Debates over the Superiority of Particular Methods; Multiple Methods: Promises and Challenges; Practical Challenges and Methodological Trade-Offs; Technological Development and the Costs of Border Crossing; Availability and Accessibility of Data; Career Incentives as Methodological Constraints; Training; Career Incentives and Specialization; Our Substantive Focus; Interactions between Theory and Methods

Multiple Methods and Collaborative ResearchPractical Constraints on Methodological Choices; Career Incentives and Methodological Practice; Outline of the Book; Part Two: Field Methods; Chapter Two Small-N Case Studies: Putting the Commons under a Magnifying Glass; The Conventional Theory of the Commons; The Case Study Method; Cases, Case Studies, and Case Study Research; Analytical Strengths and Weaknesses; Practical Considerations; Synthesizing Challenges and Coordinating New Research Efforts; Contributions to the Study of the Commons; Property Rights and Tenure Security

Group CharacteristicsResource Characteristics; Case Studies as a Foundation; Chapter Three Broadly Comparative Field-Based Research; Methodological Practices over Fifteen Years of Research; Defining the Units of Analysis; Trading Geographic Scope for Numbers?; Theoretical Aspirations and Methodological Practices; Practical Challenges to Broadly Comparative Field-Based Research; Costs of Data Collection; Research Design and Sampling; The Implications of Data Scarcity and Costliness; Meta-Analysis: An Introduction; Weighing the Benefits and Costs of Meta-Analysis

Coding Strategies and Missing DataPotential Sources of Sample Bias; The Choice of Methodological Strategy: Weighing Costs against Control; Chapter Four Meta-Analysis: Getting the Big Picture through Synthesis; Meta-Analysis: A Recapitulation; The Common-Pool Resource (CPR) Research Program; Defining Variables; Compensating for Gaps in Case Materials; Contributions; Overall Assessment; NIIS: A Hybrid Approach; Adaptation of the CPR Protocols; Measurement and Sampling; Contributions; Overall Assessment; Other Synthetic Studies; Additional Examples of Meta-Analysis

An Example of Narrative SynthesisProgress and Continuing Challenges; Chapter Five Collaborative Field Studies; Collaboration in Field-Based Research, 1990-2004; Two Research Partnerships; Community-Based Management of Common-Pool Resources in Tanzania; Traditional Management of Artisanal Fisheries in Nigeria; Thoughts about Research Partnerships; CGIAR: A Global Research Alliance; IFRI: An International Research Network; Strategies for Data Collection; Strategies for Coordination; Contributions and Challenges; Comparing the Strategies and Drawing Implications

Part Three: Models and Experiments in the Laboratory and the Field

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