Foundational Aspects of Polycentric Governance: Overarching Rules, Social-Problem Characteristics, and Heterogeneity
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Governing Complexity: Analyzing and Applying Polycentricity. ed. / Andreas Thiel; William A. Blomquist; Dustin E. Garrick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. p. 65-90 3 (Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society).
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T1 - Foundational Aspects of Polycentric Governance
T2 - Overarching Rules, Social-Problem Characteristics, and Heterogeneity
AU - Thiel, Andreas
AU - Moser, Christine
PY - 2019/9/13
Y1 - 2019/9/13
N2 - In this chapter we address what we consider to be foundational aspects shaping emergent polycentric governance. They explain the scalar organization and diversity of governance arrangements as well as its performance. We argue that polycentric governance is founded on particular overarching rules that enable self-organization by those involved in governance of collective goods. Polycentric governance offers diverse ways to address social problems and performance criteria that actors introduce into negotiations over governance. Variability in social-problem characteristics leads to variable governance structures and performance. Heterogeneity of communities provides a further explanation of why people prioritize differing criteria of performance and pursue their aims through a diversity of governance arrangements. The chapter elaborates on the foundational roles of these variables for polycentric governance, and highlights gaps in research on these issues.
AB - In this chapter we address what we consider to be foundational aspects shaping emergent polycentric governance. They explain the scalar organization and diversity of governance arrangements as well as its performance. We argue that polycentric governance is founded on particular overarching rules that enable self-organization by those involved in governance of collective goods. Polycentric governance offers diverse ways to address social problems and performance criteria that actors introduce into negotiations over governance. Variability in social-problem characteristics leads to variable governance structures and performance. Heterogeneity of communities provides a further explanation of why people prioritize differing criteria of performance and pursue their aims through a diversity of governance arrangements. The chapter elaborates on the foundational roles of these variables for polycentric governance, and highlights gaps in research on these issues.
KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics
KW - institutions
KW - rules
KW - social problem Characteristics
KW - heterogeneity
KW - scale
KW - Self-organization
KW - provision
KW - production
KW - institutions
KW - rules
KW - social problem Characteristics
KW - Heterogeneity
KW - scale
KW - self-organization
KW - provision
KW - production
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U2 - 10.1017/9781108325721.004
DO - 10.1017/9781108325721.004
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-1-108-41998-7
SN - 978-1-108-41101-1
T3 - Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society
SP - 65
EP - 90
BT - Governing Complexity
A2 - Thiel, Andreas
A2 - Blomquist, William A.
A2 - Garrick, Dustin E.
PB - Cambridge University Press
CY - Cambridge
ER -