Poteete / Janssen / Ostrom Working Together

Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Poteete, Amy

Poteete, Amy R.

Janssen, Marco A.

Ostrom, Elinor

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations xiii

List of Tables xv

Acknowledgments xvii

Prologue xxi

Part One: Introduction

Chapter One: Overcoming Methodological Challenges 3

Social Science Debates over the Superiority of Particular Methods 7

Multiple Methods: Promises and Challenges 11

Practical Challenges and Methodological Trade-Offs 14

Technological Development and the Costs of Border Crossing 15

Availability and Accessibility of Data 17

Career Incentives as Methodological Constraints 18

Training 19

Career Incentives and Specialization 20

Our Substantive Focus 21

Interactions between Theory and Methods 23

Multiple Methods and Collaborative Research 23

Practical Constraints on Methodological Choices 23

Career Incentives and Methodological Practice 24

Outline of the Book 24

Part Two: Field Methods

Chapter Two: Small-N Case Studies: Putting the Commons under a Magnifying Glass 31

The Conventional Theory of the Commons 31

The Case Study Method 33

Cases, Case Studies, and Case Study Research 33

Analytical Strengths and Weaknesses 34

Practical Considerations 37

Synthesizing Challenges and Coordinating New Research Efforts 39

Contributions to the Study of the Commons 45

Property Rights and Tenure Security 45

Group Characteristics 52

Resource Characteristics 57

Case Studies as a Foundation 60

Chapter Three: Broadly Comparative Field-Based Research 64

Methodological Practices over Fifteen Years of Research 65

Defining the Units of Analysis 66

Trading Geographic Scope for Numbers? 68

Theoretical Aspirations and Methodological Practices 74

Practical Challenges to Broadly Comparative Field-Based Research 74

Costs of Data Collection 75

Research Design and Sampling 76

The Implications of Data Scarcity and Costliness 78

Meta-Analysis: An Introduction 78

Weighing the Benefits and Costs of Meta-Analysis 81

Coding Strategies and Missing Data 81

Potential Sources of Sample Bias 83

The Choice of Methodological Strategy: Weighing Costs

against Control 86

Chapter Four: Meta-Analysis: Getting the Big Picture through Synthesis 89

Meta-Analysis: A Recapitulation 89

The Common-Pool Resource (CPR) Research Program 90

Defining Variables 92

Compensating for Gaps in Case Materials 93

Contributions 94

Overall Assessment 101

NIIS: A Hybrid Approach 102

Adaptation of the CPR Protocols 103

Measurement and Sampling 104

Contributions 105

Overall Assessment 107

Other Synthetic Studies 107

Additional Examples of Meta-Analysis 108

An Example of Narrative Synthesis 111

Progress and Continuing Challenges 113

Chapter Five: Collaborative Field Studies 115

Collaboration in Field-Based Research, 1990-2004 116

Two Research Partnerships 118

Community-Based Management of Common-Pool

Resources in Tanzania 118

Traditional Management of Artisanal Fisheries in Nigeria 120

Thoughts about Research Partnerships 124

CGIAR: A Global Research Alliance 124

IFRI: An International Research Network 126

Strategies for Data Collection 127

Strategies for Coordination 128

Contributions and Challenges 129

Comparing the Strategies and Drawing Implications 132

Part Three: Models and Experiments in the Laboratory

and the Field

Chapter Six: Experiments in the Laboratory and the Field 141

The Experimental Method 142

Laboratory Experiments of Relevance to the Study of

the Commons 144

Public Goods Experiments 146

Common-Pool Resource Experiments 150

Insights from Public Goods and Common-Pool Resource

Experiments in the Laboratory 153

Face-to-Face Communication in the Laboratory 153

Heterogeneity 156

Sanctioning Experiments 158

Field Experiments 159

Toward a New Generation of Experiments of Commons Dilemmas 163

New Developments in Laboratory Experiments 164

Toward a New Generation of Field Experiments 168

Conclusion 169

Chapter Seven: Agent-Based Models of Collective Action 171

A Brief Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling 171

Cellular Automata 172

Networks 173

Agents 174

Strengths and Weaknesses of Agent-Based Models 175

Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma 177

Cooperation among Egoists 177

Evolving Strategies in Prisoner's Dilemma Tournaments 178

Spatial Games 180

Spatial Social Dilemma Games 180

Spatial Public Goods Games 181

Indirect Reciprocity 182

Evolution of Costly Punishment 185

Evolution of Social (Meta) Norms 187

Future Challenges 188

Conclusion 191

Chapter Eight: Building Empirically Grounded Agent-Based Models 194

Comparing Simulations with Data 195

Different Approaches to Combine Empirical Data and

Agent-Based Models 196

Agent-Based Models of Laboratory and Field Experiments 198

Role Games and Companion Modeling 204

Models of Case Studies 207

Methodological Challenges 210

Conclusion 212

Part Four: Synthesis

Chapter Nine: Pushing the Frontiers of the Theory of Collective Action and

the Commons 215

Synopsis of Research Developments Reviewed in Parts II and III 217

Toward a More General Behavioral Theory of Human Action 220

Assumptions of a Behavioral Theory 222

The Centrality of Trust 226

Unpacking the Concept of Context 227

The Microsituational Context 228

The Impact of Microsituational Variables on Cooperation 228

The Challenge of Linking Contextual Scales 231

The Broader Scale Affecting Collective Action 232

Ontological Frameworks 233

An Ontological Framework of Social-Ecological Systems 234

Predicting Self-Organization Drawing on the SES Framework 236

Diagnosing Institutional Change 239

Challenges for Future Research 243

Conclusion 245

Appendix 9.1: A Theoretical Puzzle: Why Do Some Resource Users Self-Organize and Others Do Not? 246

Chapter Ten

Learning from Multiple Methods 248

Interlocking Developments in Methods and Theory 249

Methodological and Disciplinary Cross-Fertilization and Theoretical Innovation 251

Sequential Movement between Methods and Disciplines 252

Combining Multiple Methods and Disciplines in a Program of Research 255

Spaces for Cross-Fertilization 257

Practical Challenges 258

Trade-Offs in Training and Research 258

Professional Incentives 260

Collaborative Research as a Collective-Action Problem 262

Rewards to Individual and Collaborative Research 263

Fragmentation of Academia 265

Misunderstandings and Mistrust 266

Long-Term Funding 269

Responding to the Challenges 270

Looking Forward 271

Notes 275

References 289

Index 339

Über Autor(innen)

Amy R. Poteete is assistant professor of political science at Concordia University in Montreal. Marco A. Janssen is assistant professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Elinor Ostrom is professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, and Arizona State University, Tempe, and the cowinner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.