Browsing by Author "de Moor, Tine"

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The Common Rules Project. Towards a Common Language to Analyse and Interprete Commons' Regulation in Historical Europe
(2015) de Moor, Tine
"Over the past three years a team of scholars at Utrecht University, the Public University of Navarra (Pamplona), and Lancaster University have been working on the digitization and analysis of the regulation of in total twenty‐six 'historical' commons across England, the Netherlands, and Spain. In this document we first describe our intentions with this project, and how these relate to the wider debate on commons and institutions for collective action. Thereafter we describe the features of the database and the difficulties to compare commons across countries and time and we offer some preliminary analyses of the large database that is now available for other researchers to consult. Considering that we are currently still working on the analysis of all the data it is currently not yet possible to download the data as such. This online tool is intended to allow commons-researchers to use a structured and historically embedded environment to deal with the very interesting and useful but often hard to analyse material the historical commons have left behind. In this paper we describe the content of this database and offer some basic results of the comparative analysis so far. Please do note that this is a very first draft of some preliminary attempts to analyse our data. Of course comments and suggestions are most appreciated."
History and the Commons: A Necessary Conversation
(2016) Laborda-Pemán, Miguel; de Moor, Tine
"Editorial for: Collective action institutions in a long-term perspective."
Ruling the Commons: Introducing a New Methodology for the Analysis of Historical Commons
(2016) de Moor, Tine; Laborda-Pemán, Miguel; Lana-Berasain, José Miguel; van Weeren, René; Winchester, Angus
"Despite significant progress in recent years, the evolution of commons over the long run remains an under-explored area within commons studies. During the last years an international team of historians have worked under the umbrella of the Common Rules Project in order to design and test a new methodology aimed at advancing our knowledge on the dynamics of institutions for collective action – in particular commons. This project aims to contribute to the current debate on commons on three different fronts. Theoretically, it explicitly draws our attention to issues of change and adaptation in the commons – contrasting with more static analyses. Empirically, it highlights the value of historical records as a rich source of information for longitudinal analysis of the functioning of commons. Methodologically, it develops a systematic way of analyzing and comparing commons’ regulations across regions and time, setting a number of variables that have been defined on the basis of the 'most common denominators' in commons regulation across countries and time periods. In this paper we introduce the project, describe our sources and methodology, and present the preliminary results of our analysis."