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Covenants with and without a Sword: Self-Governance Is Possible

Ostrom, Elinor, Walker, James, Gardner, Roy·1992·American Political Science Review
DOI 10.2307/1964229
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Contemporary political theory often assumes that individuals cannot make credible commitments where substantial temptations exist to break them unless such commitments are enforced by an external agent. One such situation may occur in relation to common pool resources, which are natural or man-made resources whose yield is subtractable and whose exclusion is nontrivial (but not necessarily impossible). Examples include fisheries, forests, grazing ranges, irrigation systems, and groundwater basins. Empirical evidence, however, suggests that appropriators in common pool resources develop credible commitments in many cases without relying on external authorities. We present findings from a series of experiments exploring (1) covenants alone (both one-shot and repeated communication opportunities); (2) swords alone (repeated opportunities to sanction each other); and (3) covenants combined with an internal sword (one-shot communication followed by repeated opportunities to sanction each other).

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Authors
Ostrom, E., Walker, J., & Gardner, R.
Venue
American Political Science Review
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
1992-06
Volume
86
Issue
2
Pages
404-417
ISSN
  • 0003-0554 (ISSN-L)
  • 1537-5943
DOI
10.2307/1964229
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30.24
Type
journal article
Language
en
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