This article explicates the logic of decision-making among raika shepherds in western India to set the stage for a simple principal-agent model that I deploy to analyze leader-led relations among the raikas. Using detailed information on strategies followed by the shepherds to control their...

The International Forestry Resources and Institutes' (IFRI) Collaborating Research Centers conduct case studies of specific forests. Through training programs at the University of Michigan, Indiana University, and the Asian Institute of Technology, IFRI scholars and trainees learn consistent...

This paper contributes to fertile debates in environmental social sciences on the uses of and potential synergies between qualitative and quantitative analytical approaches for theory development and validation. Relying on extensive fieldwork on local forest governance in India, and using a...