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Success on the Commons: A Comparative Examination of Institutions for Common Property Resource Management

Margaret A. McKean · Journal of Theoretical Politics, 4(3), 247–281 · 1992

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Margaret A. McKean
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DOI 10.1177/0951692892004003002
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2026-09-01

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EstablishedIn 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.