Information, Networks, and the Complexity of Trust in Commons Governance
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2011
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"The publication of Elinor Ostroms (1990) Governing the Commons
fueled significant theoretical and empirical progress in the field of commons
governance and collective action, most notably in the form of the Institutional
Analysis and Development (IAD) framework. A central question within this
literature is how trust is created, maintained, and potentially destroyed in the
context of sustainability issues. While the commons literature has provided
a deeper understanding of trust, most empirical work has been done in
relatively simple settings that do not capture the complexity of many global,
institutionally-complex dilemmas that we face today. This paper discusses how
our understanding of trust in these more complex settings may be improved
by considering how two broad categories of variables belief systems and
networks influence trust."
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advocacy, common pool resources, information, institutional analysis--IAD framework, networks, risk, sustainability, trust