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COMMONS / INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN

System notes

Institutional design determines commons success; resource type does not.

Hardin's state-or-privatization dichotomy for commons governance is false; self-governing institutions can and do emerge without centralized coercion.

Ostrom's eight design principles are operational predictors of commons survival: clear boundaries, cost-benefit matching, user participation, monitoring, graduated sanctions, conflict resolution, minimal recognition rights, and nested governance.

Axelrod's tit-for-tat tournament and Ostrom's fieldwork converge on the same mechanism: cooperation survives when rules make defection more expensive than cooperation.

Scale is the hardest limit to Ostrom's principles: they work in small, homogeneous, face-to-face groups but fail at global scale where boundaries, monitoring, and graduated sanctions are impossible.

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Institutional design determines commons success; resource type does not.
sources: ostrom-1990
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Hardin's state-or-privatization dichotomy for commons governance is false; self-governing institutions can and do emerge without centralized coercion.
sources: ostrom-1990
system
Ostrom's eight design principles are operational predictors of commons survival: clear boundaries, cost-benefit matching, user participation, monitoring, graduated sanctions, conflict resolution, minimal recognition rights, and nested governance.
sources: ostrom-1990
system
Axelrod's tit-for-tat tournament and Ostrom's fieldwork converge on the same mechanism: cooperation survives when rules make defection more expensive than cooperation.
sources: ostrom-1990, axelrod-1984
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Scale is the hardest limit to Ostrom's principles: they work in small, homogeneous, face-to-face groups but fail at global scale where boundaries, monitoring, and graduated sanctions are impossible.
sources: ostrom-1990
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speculative0.60
Darwinian selection operates on institutional rules: groups with good rules outcompete groups with bad rules, and rules replicate across neighboring groups through institutional evolution.
sources: darwin-1859
speculative0.55
Cybernetic feedback and Ashby's law of requisite variety apply to commons governance: monitoring and sanctions are feedback loops, and institutional design must generate regulatory variety matching environmental complexity.
sources: wiener-1948, ashby-1956
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