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F1 — Tier. T1 (Ostrom’s principles empirically validated across multiple case studies; Axelrod’s tournaments robust).

F2 — Sources.

  • Ostrom, E. (1990). Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge University Press.
  • Ostrom, E. (2009). Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons.”
  • Ostrom, E. (1990/2005). Understanding Institutional Diversity. Princeton University Press.
  • Axelrod, R. (1984). The Evolution of Cooperation. Basic Books.
  • Axelrod, R. (1997). The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration. Princeton University Press.
  • Dietz, T., Ostrom, E. & Stern, P.C. (2003). “The struggle to govern the commons.” Science, 302(5652), 1907–1912.

F3 — Domains. Natural resource management (fisheries, forests, irrigation systems), digital commons (open source, Wikipedia), knowledge commons, urban governance.

F4 — Scale. Local irrigation system (~10² m) → global climate governance (~10⁷ m); temporal range from years to centuries of institutional evolution.

F5 — Falsifier. Ostrom’s design principles failing to predict outcomes — i.e., institutions that satisfy all of Ostrom’s principles (clear boundaries, proportional costs/benefits, collective choice, monitoring, graduated sanctions, conflict resolution, minimal recognition of rights, nested enterprises) yet fail to sustain the commons; or institutions that violate most principles yet succeed. Systematic failure of the principles would undermine the convergence claim.

F6 — Rival (strongest form). Commons success is exceptional; most commons require central management or privatization (Hardin’s original position). Ostrom’s cases are a biased sample — she studied successful cases more than failed ones. The design principles are post-hoc rationalizations, not predictive rules. Government regulation and market mechanisms handle most resource governance; self-governance is a niche solution for small, homogeneous communities with shared norms. (Hardin 1968 Science 162:1243; criticisms by Stavins 2011 and others of Ostrom’s generalizability.)

F7 — Independence. MODERATE — partial lineage. Ostrom (political science, Indiana University/Bloomington) and Axelrod (political science, University of Michigan) were contemporaries and colleagues in the same intellectual community; both were influenced by game theory and institutional economics. Their work is not fully independent — Axelrod’s Evolution of Cooperation (1984) informed Ostrom’s framework. However, Ostrom’s empirical fieldwork (Swiss alpine meadows, Japanese villages, Philippine irrigation systems) was independent of Axelrod’s computational tournaments.

F8 — Pattern type. Social.

F9 — Maps. A4 (biosphere-ecosphere), A3 (pattern-dynamics).

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