Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
Elinor Ostrom — Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (1990)Elinor Ostrom · 1990 · Book · ch. 3, pp. 67-68; Table 3.1, p. 90EstablishedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0511 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: Japanese iriai village commons · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“In the iriai villages McKean studied, patrolling guards (in some villages a post rotated among all eligible men) enforced the rules, and written codes set fines graduated by the seriousness of the offence; Ostrom counts monitoring and graduated sanctions among the design principles behind long-enduring commons.”
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2Success on the Commons: A Comparative Examination of Institutions for Common Property Resource Management
Margaret A. McKean — Success on the Commons: A Comparative Examination of Institutions for Common Property Resource Management (1992)Margaret A. McKean · 1992 · Article · abstractEvidence that contradicts
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The Japanese Experience With Scarcity: Management of Traditional Common Lands
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