[governance] Parminder's exchange with Bertrand

[Milton L Mueller]

Thanks, Massit-Follea for a more nuanced approach to Ostrom. 

Ostrom does not romanticize "the commons" (though many of her acolytes do); she does not categorize ALL resources as common pool resources but restricts it to those that involve exclusive appropriation but difficulty of exclusion; she does not deny the existence of the tragedy of the commons but asserts that it can be overcome not only through private property (to which she is not hostile) but also by collective governance arrangements. Ostrom is very pragmatic and empirical in her approach to governance arrangements. Actually as a positive theorist (as opposed to a normative one) her approaches and ideas could just as well be used by any side in the internet governance debates. 

In a paper I present in late March at the European Communications Policy Research Conference I do an institutional analysis of ip addressing which relies on some of her concepts. 

--MM 
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From: massit follea [f.massit at orange.fr]
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 9:26 AM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Bertrand de La Chapelle
Subject: Re: [governance] Parminder's exchange with Bertrand

Dear all list-members,

deepening Bertrand's reference  : Elinor Ostrom is speaking about "stable LOCAL common property resource management" as
1. Clearly defined boundaries (effective exclusion of external unentitled parties);
2.     Rules regarding the appropriation and provision of common resources adapted to local conditions;
3.     Collective-choice arrangements allowing most resource appropriators to participate in the decision-making process;
4.     Effective monitoring by monitors who are part of or accountable to the appropriators;
5.     A scale of graduated sanctions for resource appropriators who violate community rules;
6.     Mechanisms of conflict resolution cheap and of easy access;
7.     Self-determination of the community recognized by higher-level authorities;
8.     In the case of larger common-pool resources: organization in the form of multiple layers of nested enterprises, with small local CPRs at the base level. …

Elinor Ostrom: « Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action ». Cambridge University Press. 1990. p.90,  and « Understanding Institutional Diversity ». Princeton, Princeton University Press. 2005. p.259

F Massit-Folléa



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