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Elinor Ostrom — Governing the Commons (1990)

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Elinor Ostrom — Governing the Commons (1990)

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Groups manage shared resources without state coercion or privatization.

Eight design principles predict success in commons governance.

The tragedy of the commons is contingent, not universal.

Structure of institutions beats resource type in determining commons outcomes.

Cooperation in commons is enabled by conditional trust and reciprocity in repeated games, not altruism.

Ostrom's principles are post-hoc descriptive, not always predictive.

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Groups manage shared resources without state coercion or privatization.
sources: S1
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Eight design principles predict success in commons governance.
sources: S1
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The tragedy of the commons is contingent, not universal.
sources: S1, S2
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Structure of institutions beats resource type in determining commons outcomes.
sources: S1
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Cooperation in commons is enabled by conditional trust and reciprocity in repeated games, not altruism.
sources: S1, S3
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system0.80
Ostrom's principles are post-hoc descriptive, not always predictive.
sources: S1
speculative0.70
Modern global commons (climate, oceans, atmosphere) lack the social density and face-to-face accountability required by Ostrom's principles.
sources: S1
speculative0.60
Hardin's pessimism may hold for large-scale, anonymous populations where Ostrom's optimism is the exception, not the rule.
sources: S1, S2
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