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Working Together : Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (371 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400835157
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 333.2
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Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Part One: Introduction -- Chapter One Overcoming Methodological Challenges -- Social Science Debates over the Superiority of Particular Methods -- Multiple Methods: Promises and Challenges -- Practical Challenges and Methodological Trade-Offs -- Technological Development and the Costs of Border Crossing -- Availability and Accessibility of Data -- Career Incentives as Methodological Constraints -- Training -- Career Incentives and Specialization -- Our Substantive Focus -- Interactions between Theory and Methods -- Multiple Methods and Collaborative Research -- Practical Constraints on Methodological Choices -- Career Incentives and Methodological Practice -- Outline of the Book -- Part Two: Field Methods -- Chapter Two Small-N Case Studies: Putting the Commons under a Magnifying Glass -- The Conventional Theory of the Commons -- The Case Study Method -- Cases, Case Studies, and Case Study Research -- Analytical Strengths and Weaknesses -- Practical Considerations -- Synthesizing Challenges and Coordinating New Research Efforts -- Contributions to the Study of the Commons -- Property Rights and Tenure Security -- Group Characteristics -- Resource Characteristics -- Case Studies as a Foundation -- Chapter Three Broadly Comparative Field-Based Research -- Methodological Practices over Fifteen Years of Research -- Defining the Units of Analysis -- Trading Geographic Scope for Numbers? -- Theoretical Aspirations and Methodological Practices -- Practical Challenges to Broadly Comparative Field-Based Research -- Costs of Data Collection -- Research Design and Sampling -- The Implications of Data Scarcity and Costliness -- Meta-Analysis: An Introduction -- Weighing the Benefits and Costs of Meta-Analysis.
Coding Strategies and Missing Data -- Potential Sources of Sample Bias -- The Choice of Methodological Strategy: Weighing Costs against Control -- Chapter Four Meta-Analysis: Getting the Big Picture through Synthesis -- Meta-Analysis: A Recapitulation -- The Common-Pool Resource (CPR) Research Program -- Defining Variables -- Compensating for Gaps in Case Materials -- Contributions -- Overall Assessment -- NIIS: A Hybrid Approach -- Adaptation of the CPR Protocols -- Measurement and Sampling -- Contributions -- Overall Assessment -- Other Synthetic Studies -- Additional Examples of Meta-Analysis -- An Example of Narrative Synthesis -- Progress and Continuing Challenges -- Chapter Five Collaborative Field Studies -- Collaboration in Field-Based Research, 1990-2004 -- Two Research Partnerships -- Community-Based Management of Common-Pool Resources in Tanzania -- Traditional Management of Artisanal Fisheries in Nigeria -- Thoughts about Research Partnerships -- CGIAR: A Global Research Alliance -- IFRI: An International Research Network -- Strategies for Data Collection -- Strategies for Coordination -- Contributions and Challenges -- Comparing the Strategies and Drawing Implications -- Part Three: Models and Experiments in the Laboratory and the Field -- Chapter Six: Experiments in the Laboratory and the Field -- The Experimental Method -- Laboratory Experiments of Relevance to the Study of the Commons -- Public Goods Experiments -- Common-Pool Resource Experiments -- Insights from Public Goods and Common-Pool Resource Experiments in the Laboratory -- Face-to-Face Communication in the Laboratory -- Heterogeneity -- Sanctioning Experiments -- Field Experiments -- Toward a New Generation of Experiments of Commons Dilemmas -- New Developments in Laboratory Experiments -- Toward a New Generation of Field Experiments -- Conclusion.
Chapter Seven Agent-Based Models of Collective Action -- A Brief Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling -- Cellular Automata -- Networks -- Agents -- Strengths and Weaknesses of Agent-Based Models -- Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma -- Cooperation among Egoists -- Evolving Strategies in Prisoner's Dilemma Tournaments -- Spatial Games -- Spatial Social Dilemma Games -- Spatial Public Goods Games -- Indirect Reciprocity -- Evolution of Costly Punishment -- Evolution of Social (Meta) Norms -- Future Challenges -- Conclusion -- Chapter Eight Building Empirically Grounded Agent-Based Models -- Comparing Simulations with Data -- Different Approaches to Combine Empirical Data and Agent-Based Models -- Agent-Based Models of Laboratory and Field Experiments -- Role Games and Companion Modeling -- Models of Case Studies -- Methodological Challenges -- Conclusion -- Part Four: Synthesis -- Chapter Nine Pushing the Frontiers of the Theory of Collective Action and the Commons -- Synopsis of Research Developments Reviewed in Parts II and III -- Toward a More General Behavioral Theory of Human Action -- Assumptions of a Behavioral Theory -- The Centrality of Trust -- Unpacking the Concept of Context -- The Microsituational Context -- The Impact of Microsituational Variables on Cooperation -- The Challenge of Linking Contextual Scales -- The Broader Scale Affecting Collective Action -- Ontological Frameworks -- An Ontological Framework of Social-Ecological Systems -- Predicting Self-Organization Drawing on the SES Framework -- Diagnosing Institutional Change -- Challenges for Future Research -- Conclusion -- Appendix 9.1: A Theoretical Puzzle: Why Do Some Resource Users Self-Organize and Others Do Not? -- Chapter Ten Learning from Multiple Methods -- Interlocking Developments in Methods and Theory.
Methodological and Disciplinary Cross-Fertilization and Theoretical Innovation -- Sequential Movement between Methods and Disciplines -- Combining Multiple Methods and Disciplines in a Program of Research -- Spaces for Cross-Fertilization -- Practical Challenges -- Trade-Offs in Training and Research -- Professional Incentives -- Collaborative Research as a Collective-Action Problem -- Rewards to Individual and Collaborative Research -- Fragmentation of Academia -- Misunderstandings and Mistrust -- Long-Term Funding -- Responding to the Challenges -- Looking Forward -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Part One: Introduction -- Chapter One Overcoming Methodological Challenges -- Social Science Debates over the Superiority of Particular Methods -- Multiple Methods: Promises and Challenges -- Practical Challenges and Methodological Trade-Offs -- Technological Development and the Costs of Border Crossing -- Availability and Accessibility of Data -- Career Incentives as Methodological Constraints -- Training -- Career Incentives and Specialization -- Our Substantive Focus -- Interactions between Theory and Methods -- Multiple Methods and Collaborative Research -- Practical Constraints on Methodological Choices -- Career Incentives and Methodological Practice -- Outline of the Book -- Part Two: Field Methods -- Chapter Two Small-N Case Studies: Putting the Commons under a Magnifying Glass -- The Conventional Theory of the Commons -- The Case Study Method -- Cases, Case Studies, and Case Study Research -- Analytical Strengths and Weaknesses -- Practical Considerations -- Synthesizing Challenges and Coordinating New Research Efforts -- Contributions to the Study of the Commons -- Property Rights and Tenure Security -- Group Characteristics -- Resource Characteristics -- Case Studies as a Foundation -- Chapter Three Broadly Comparative Field-Based Research -- Methodological Practices over Fifteen Years of Research -- Defining the Units of Analysis -- Trading Geographic Scope for Numbers? -- Theoretical Aspirations and Methodological Practices -- Practical Challenges to Broadly Comparative Field-Based Research -- Costs of Data Collection -- Research Design and Sampling -- The Implications of Data Scarcity and Costliness -- Meta-Analysis: An Introduction -- Weighing the Benefits and Costs of Meta-Analysis.

Coding Strategies and Missing Data -- Potential Sources of Sample Bias -- The Choice of Methodological Strategy: Weighing Costs against Control -- Chapter Four Meta-Analysis: Getting the Big Picture through Synthesis -- Meta-Analysis: A Recapitulation -- The Common-Pool Resource (CPR) Research Program -- Defining Variables -- Compensating for Gaps in Case Materials -- Contributions -- Overall Assessment -- NIIS: A Hybrid Approach -- Adaptation of the CPR Protocols -- Measurement and Sampling -- Contributions -- Overall Assessment -- Other Synthetic Studies -- Additional Examples of Meta-Analysis -- An Example of Narrative Synthesis -- Progress and Continuing Challenges -- Chapter Five Collaborative Field Studies -- Collaboration in Field-Based Research, 1990-2004 -- Two Research Partnerships -- Community-Based Management of Common-Pool Resources in Tanzania -- Traditional Management of Artisanal Fisheries in Nigeria -- Thoughts about Research Partnerships -- CGIAR: A Global Research Alliance -- IFRI: An International Research Network -- Strategies for Data Collection -- Strategies for Coordination -- Contributions and Challenges -- Comparing the Strategies and Drawing Implications -- Part Three: Models and Experiments in the Laboratory and the Field -- Chapter Six: Experiments in the Laboratory and the Field -- The Experimental Method -- Laboratory Experiments of Relevance to the Study of the Commons -- Public Goods Experiments -- Common-Pool Resource Experiments -- Insights from Public Goods and Common-Pool Resource Experiments in the Laboratory -- Face-to-Face Communication in the Laboratory -- Heterogeneity -- Sanctioning Experiments -- Field Experiments -- Toward a New Generation of Experiments of Commons Dilemmas -- New Developments in Laboratory Experiments -- Toward a New Generation of Field Experiments -- Conclusion.

Chapter Seven Agent-Based Models of Collective Action -- A Brief Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling -- Cellular Automata -- Networks -- Agents -- Strengths and Weaknesses of Agent-Based Models -- Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma -- Cooperation among Egoists -- Evolving Strategies in Prisoner's Dilemma Tournaments -- Spatial Games -- Spatial Social Dilemma Games -- Spatial Public Goods Games -- Indirect Reciprocity -- Evolution of Costly Punishment -- Evolution of Social (Meta) Norms -- Future Challenges -- Conclusion -- Chapter Eight Building Empirically Grounded Agent-Based Models -- Comparing Simulations with Data -- Different Approaches to Combine Empirical Data and Agent-Based Models -- Agent-Based Models of Laboratory and Field Experiments -- Role Games and Companion Modeling -- Models of Case Studies -- Methodological Challenges -- Conclusion -- Part Four: Synthesis -- Chapter Nine Pushing the Frontiers of the Theory of Collective Action and the Commons -- Synopsis of Research Developments Reviewed in Parts II and III -- Toward a More General Behavioral Theory of Human Action -- Assumptions of a Behavioral Theory -- The Centrality of Trust -- Unpacking the Concept of Context -- The Microsituational Context -- The Impact of Microsituational Variables on Cooperation -- The Challenge of Linking Contextual Scales -- The Broader Scale Affecting Collective Action -- Ontological Frameworks -- An Ontological Framework of Social-Ecological Systems -- Predicting Self-Organization Drawing on the SES Framework -- Diagnosing Institutional Change -- Challenges for Future Research -- Conclusion -- Appendix 9.1: A Theoretical Puzzle: Why Do Some Resource Users Self-Organize and Others Do Not? -- Chapter Ten Learning from Multiple Methods -- Interlocking Developments in Methods and Theory.

Methodological and Disciplinary Cross-Fertilization and Theoretical Innovation -- Sequential Movement between Methods and Disciplines -- Combining Multiple Methods and Disciplines in a Program of Research -- Spaces for Cross-Fertilization -- Practical Challenges -- Trade-Offs in Training and Research -- Professional Incentives -- Collaborative Research as a Collective-Action Problem -- Rewards to Individual and Collaborative Research -- Fragmentation of Academia -- Misunderstandings and Mistrust -- Long-Term Funding -- Responding to the Challenges -- Looking Forward -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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