Governance of the irrigation commons under integrated water resources management – A comparative study in contemporary rural China

How does context affect self-governance? Examining Ostrom’s design principles in China

“…Since Ostrom (1990), a comparative strategy of multiple cases was used to examine and explore the design principles of the self-governance under context, most based on one-by-one DP comparison (Sarker and Itoh 2001;Quinn et al 2007;Yu et al 2016). This approach is principle-oriented, which may easily ignore the connections and structures among the design principles.…”

“…The user monitoring (4B) is related to the payment announcement and the internal monitors, which are indicated from the two perspectives of monitoring information and social structure (Cinner 2007;. The sanction measurements (5) are related to water theft and payment behaviours, which are the two-key free-rider behaviours that should be sanctioned (Adams et al 1997;Yu et al 2016). According to previous discussion, the conflict resolution (6) is coded with the final mechanism ).…”

“…countries with liberal democratic systems but very few came from non-western countries with authoritarian political systems Baggio et al 2016). 2 Selfgovernance under authoritarianism exists in reality, but it is rarely studied (Tsai 2007;Yu et al 2016;Chai and Zeng 2018). Over the last two decades, self-governance has been promoted by authoritarian governments as an important policy instrument, to be rebuilt and integrated into the broader administrative system for managing the "last mile" affairs (Mustafa et al 2016;Xia and Guan 2017).…”

“…1 The DP theory were proposed based on multiple case comparisons (Ostrom 1990), and then tested by hundreds of various case studies, e.g. Ostrom (1993), Sarker and Itoh (2001), Quinn et al (2007), Yu et al (2016). The recent researches of and Baggio et al (2016) are based on qualitative meta-analysis of 69 cases in 91 papers.…”

Water Management: Collective Organization, Local Demands and Water Avalilability. A Review

“…Indeed, participation of the actors evidences the problems in the management by the deficiencies in the use of the water, as well as the environmental externalities. Therefore, governance within public policies stimulate the sustainable management of water resources [44] and propose the solution of conflicts on a local scale [45]. Moreover, local management problems interferes with the allocation of water on a global scale, although it is difficult to solve the conflicts of shared tributaries, and the allocation of water sources [46].…”