Beyond Collective Action Problems

Name: Beyond Collective Action Problems
SKU: 9780197755792
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Author: Atul Pokharel
ISBN: 9780197755792

Perceived Fairness and Sustained Cooperation in Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems in Nepal

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvAtul Pokharel

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Human history is full of examples of continuously maintained shared infrastructure. Our ability to survive and prosper depends on cooperation at some level, from the irrigation systems that enabled ancient humans to abandon their nomadic lifestyle to the free and open-source software that undergirds the internet. Thus, understanding the conditions under which community governance can be both equitable and sustainable is of critical importance to scholars and policymakers alike.In Beyond Collective Action Problems, Atul Pokharel argues that sustained cooperation depends on user perceptions that the cooperative arrangement is fair. Pokharel elaborates a different way to think about sustained cooperation over decades, based on a follow-up of 233 long-running community managed irrigation systems in Nepal--the same cases that were used to understand how groups can overcome collective action problems. Covering nearly forty years of history through these cases, Pokharel introduces the idea of fairness problems to capture the many forms in which the perceived fairness of a form of governance comes to matter to continued cooperation. As he shows, the longer individuals cooperate, the more they become aware of how far their cooperative arrangement has diverged from the initial promise of fairness. This perception of fairness affects their commitment to maintaining the shared resource and participating in the institutions for governing it.Highlighting why eventually perceived fairness matters to sustained cooperation, this book illustrates how the fairness problem underlies successful cooperation over time, making it necessary to look beyond collective action problems.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-06-19
Mått196 x 160 x 38 mm
Vikt590 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieModern South Asia
Antal sidor320
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197755792

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Atul Pokharel, currently at Yale University, was an Assistant Professor at the NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He studies the political economy of infrastructure governance, and the community maintenance of shared physical and digital resources. His areas of expertise include Urban Governance, International Development Planning, and Political Economy. He focuses on the role of fairness in the community maintenance of infrastructure commons. His research interests include free and open-source software, and the "greening" of transportation systems in global cities. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Thomas J. Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University and holds a Ph.D. in Urban Studies and Planning from MIT as well as a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Princeton University with a minor in Applied and Computational Mathematics.

Nobel prize winning Elinor Ostrom's study of farmer-managed irrigation systems in Nepal was the foundation of her famous theory of governance of the commons. With Ostrom's blessings and data, Atul Pokharel, whose own family played a pivotal role in these successful community-managed irrigation systems returns to them to compare how they have fared three decades later. What emerges is a gem of a book, a rare large scale, temporal study of shared resource management, as painstakingly researched as it is powerfully argued. A magisterial multi-methods research design allows Pokharel to develop a sophisticated theoretical framework that centers a novel factor-famers' perceptions of fairness. Pokharel's remarkable work is essential, accessible reading for scholars and practitioners of development alike.