Analyzing Institutional Emergence: The Promise and Limitations of 'Collective Action' Based Accounts of Rules Governing the Commons

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1992

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"This article undertakes critical engagement with accounts of institutional emergence and change which are conceived as a problem of collective action. I discuss the potential and limitations of contemporary accounts based on collective action and suggest seeking a more realistic theoretical account that centers the role of power in crafting institutions, and conceives of institutions as being designed not through collective action but conflict."

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institutions, community, theory, conflict, power, markets

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