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Leadership, Coordination and Cooperation in Common-Pool Resource Management∗ (2008)
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@MISC{Ternström08leadership,coordination,
author = {Ingela Ternström},
title = {Leadership, Coordination and Cooperation in Common-Pool Resource Management∗},
year = {2008}
}
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Abstract
“This person is at the heart of the system ” said a Nepalese farmer about the leader of their irrigation system, “without him there would be no irrigation”. There is ample empirical evidence of the importance of leadership for successful management of common-pool resources (CPRs), not least in dealing with the effects of various kinds of disturbances. How-ever, it is hard to find a way to fit leadership into the theories of CPR management, especially if we also want to understand the emergence of leadership. In this paper I develop a model that provides a theoretical explanation for why there are leaders in CPRs, how the leader is selected and who will be the leader. I treat the interaction between CPR users as consisting of a number of different encounters, with different characteristics. Some encounters are best described as non-cooperative games and some are best described as coordination games. Focussing first on coordination-like encounters, I
Keyphrases
common-pool resource management coordination game cpr user successful management cpr management different encounter nepalese farmer irrigation system coordination-like encounter ample empirical evidence various kind theoretical explanation different characteristic common-pool resource non-cooperative game
