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We examine the effectiveness of three democratically chosen rules that alleviate the coordination and cooperation problems inherent in collectively managed common-pool resources. In particular we investigate how rule effectiveness and rule compliance depends on the prevailing local norms and...

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Constitutions and the commons : the impact of federal governance on local, national, and global resource management

Hudson, Blake - 2014

Constitutions and the Commons looks at a critical but little examined issue of the degree to which the federal … commons). Furthermore it considers how far the constitution facilitates the binding of constituent states, provinces or …"Constitutions and the Commons looks at a critical but little examined issue of the degree to which the federal …

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Transitional forces in a resource based economy : phases of economic and institutional development in Hawaii

Kaiser, Brooks A.; Roumasset, James Alan - 2014

We illuminate several important aspects of the nature and causes of growth and institutional change. To do this, we focus on the role resource pressures have played in the historic development of Hawaii's institutions. We discuss the Hawaiian story in the context of the natural co-evolution of...

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