Much of the debate on the modernisation of the common property regimes deals with the problem of the rationality of these regimes. Justification for the policy to be followed in planning change for such arrangements is given according to the divergent view points of development scientists on the...

Worsley and his colleagues (1971) have drawn attention to the tendency in all traditional societies, to assume communal relations as `solidary' in nature. The structure of village cooperatives is presumed to reinforce the solidarity of those relations. Anthropological analyses, however, have...

The ‘success’ of a development project, it is generally accepted, is related to the feasibility of its objectives within the socioeconomic conditions of the context in which the programme is to be implemented. What remains less categorical however, is the correspondence between the...