nADICO: A Nested Grammar of Institutions

Frantz, Christopher; Purvis, Martin; Nowostawski, Mariusz; Savarimuthu, Bastin Tony Roy

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-44927-7_31

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“…It is a form of content analysis that has been used to analyse and compare multiple sets of rules (Basurto et al 2009;Siddiki et al 2011Siddiki et al , 2012Frantz et al 2013). It makes it possible to distinguish between different types of institutional statements, labelling them as strategies, norms, and rules according to the elements of the grammar used in each case (Basurto et al 2009).…”

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Quinoa and production rules: how are cooperatives contributing to governance of natural resources?

Tschopp

Bieri

Rist

2018

International Journal of the Commons

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Abstract:The sharp increase in the price and production of quinoa between 1990 and 2014 has had important impacts in Bolivia's southern Altiplano region, previously considered one of the poorest regions in the country. The socio-economic status of most inhabitants improved significantly as a result of the "quinoa boom". However, it also caused severe disturbances in socio-ecological systems and posed challenges to resource governance by traditional indigenous institutions. This article focuses on the role of farmer cooperatives, in particular, and examines how their production rules may have mitigated some of the challenges associated with the quinoa boom. We assess the activities of cooperatives with the help of Elinor Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework and analytic tools such as the ADICO grammar (Attribute, Deontic, aIm, Condition, Or else) and the eight design principles. The key production rules of cooperatives are examined and compliance with these rules is estimated based on semi-structured interviews and a survey conducted with quinoa producers How are cooperatives contributing to governance of natural resources? 403 (n=305). We argue that the cooperatives successfully contributed to alleviate pressures on resources in a context where traditional authorities were challenged by new tasks associated with land grabbing and the crowding out of diversified agricultural activities. In conclusion, we argue that collaboration between traditional authorities and farmer cooperatives holds great potential for improving the governance and sustainability of socio-ecological systems in the region.

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Section: Methods and Datamentioning

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Quinoa and production rules: how are cooperatives contributing to governance of natural resources?

Tschopp

Bieri

Rist

2018

International Journal of the Commons

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“…The Compensation example above illustrates how to achieve coherent interactions without a central authority [6,14,15]. Governance is a prerequisite for accountability and trust, which are means with which to balance autonomy and correctness.…”

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Computational Governance and Violable Contracts for Blockchain Applications

Singh

Chopra

2020

Computer

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We propose a sociotechnical, yet computational, approach to building decentralized applications that naturally accommodates and exploits blockchain technology. This approach avoids the shortcomings of smart contracts that arise from their regimented way of organizing computation, which limits their prospects for practical decentralized applications.A centerpiece of our architecture is the notion of a declarative, violable contract in contradistinction to smart contracts. This new way of thinking enables flexible governance, by formalizing organizational structures; verification of correctness without obstructing autonomy; and a basis for trust.

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“…We borrow the structure of Nested ADICO (nADICO) [10], a refined variant of the original institutional grammar, to decompose complex institutional functions into a simple set of prescriptions that can be linked using the logical operators and, or, and xor to express conjunctions, inclusive disjunctions and exclusive disjunctions.…”

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From Institutions to Code: Towards Automated Generation of Smart Contracts

Frantz¹,

Nowostawski²

2016

2016 IEEE 1st International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*W)

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Abstract-Blockchain technology has emerged as a solution to consistency problems in peer to peer networks. By now, it has matured as a solution to a range of use cases in which it can effectively provide the notion of third party trust without the need for a trusted (physical) third party, which makes it an attractive coordination mechanism for distributed systems. To promote the wide adoption of this technology, we yet lack mechanisms that make the specification and interpretation of smart contracts accessible to a broader audience. In this work, we propose a modeling approach that supports the semi-automated translation of human-readable contract representations into computational equivalents in order to enable the codification of laws into verifiable and enforceable computational structures that reside within a public blockchain. We identify smart contract components that correspond to real world institutions, and propose a mapping that we operationalize using a domain-specific language in order to support the contract modeling process. We explore this capability based on selected examples and plot out directions for future research on smart contracts.

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nADICO: A Nested Grammar of Institutions

Cited by 23 publications

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Quinoa and production rules: how are cooperatives contributing to governance of natural resources?

Quinoa and production rules: how are cooperatives contributing to governance of natural resources?

Computational Governance and Violable Contracts for Blockchain Applications

From Institutions to Code: Towards Automated Generation of Smart Contracts

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