▪ Abstract Contemporary policy analysis of the governance of common-pool resources is
based on three core assumptions:(a) resource users are norm-free maximizers of immediate …

Reciprocity is a major factor in human social life and accounts for a large part of cooperation
in our communities. Direct reciprocity arises when repeated interactions occur between the …

Economic, technological, and sociopolitical changes have been transforming the cultures of
advanced industrial societies in profoundly important ways during the past few decades …

Page 1 RULES, GAMES, & COMMON-POOL RESOURCES Elinor Ostrom, Roy Gardner, &
James Walker MICHIGAN Page 2 Page 3 Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources This …

Debate on deregulation stems in large part from dissatisfaction with the efficacy of the
contemporary regulatory state. The debate is often currently framed as an all-or-nothing …

Researchers from across the social sciences have found consistent deviations from the
predictions of the canonical model of self-interest in hundreds of experiments from around …

This research examined cooperation between 136 industrial buyers and suppliers. We
identified four domains of potential cooperation: flexibility, information exchange, shared …

Axelrod's model of the evolution of cooperation was based on the iterated Prisoner's
Dilemma. Empirical work following this approach has helped establish the prevalence of …

Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie
and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on …

The ideas in Graham Allison's Essence of Decision (1971) have had an enormous impact on
the study and teaching of bureaucracy and foreign policy making. While Allison's work has …