The Organizational Scheme of High-Altitude Summer Pastures: The Dialectics of Conflict and Cooperation

Lozny, Ludomir R.

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“…My research in the Central Pyrenees (Lozny 2019) demonstrates that formal (the EU and national governments) and informal (communal customs and traditions) contribute to local governance regarding the access and use of highland pastures. I focused on a case of rational cooperation under forced conditions to share a limited resource, highaltitude pastures, and theorized on the relevance of a bifurcated governance system, centralized and local, to regulate access to scarce resources in complex (post)industrial societies.…”

Section: Bifurcated Governance: State Vs Customsmentioning

confidence: 90%

Polycentric Governance as a Practical Strategy for Balanced Policing: A Cross-Cultural Analysis

Lozny

2023

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Polycentricity is a normative approach to governance. It stresses the degree to which higher levels of formal governance should not crowd out self-organization at lower levels. As central government ruling may limit individual access to shared resources, participatory polycentric governance seems a feasible alternative. Under such a scheme, varied strategies combine local political segments into larger administrative systems. They help manage public goods, solve cooperator problems, and combine direct (and costly) administration with the creation of locally managed para-governmental organizations and spheres of authority to achieve cooperation goals. A federation of independent governing bodies, organized as a set of nested institutions focused on a common goal, contributes to effective, beneficial to all parties involved, sustainable well-being. Thus, I challenge the conventional wisdom that common property is poorly managed and should be regulated by central authorities or privatized. Employing the data for user-managed land, fish stocks, pastures, woods, and (ground) water, I argue that participatory polycentric governance improves communal resilience and stability. Participants became interdependent, willing, and capable of designing and following communication networks to create sustainable well-being. I conclude that the outcomes of such arrangements are often better than predicted by standard economic models.

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Section: Bifurcated Governance: State Vs Customsmentioning

confidence: 90%

Polycentric Governance as a Practical Strategy for Balanced Policing: A Cross-Cultural Analysis

Lozny

2023

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The Organizational Scheme of High-Altitude Summer Pastures: The Dialectics of Conflict and Cooperation

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Polycentric Governance as a Practical Strategy for Balanced Policing: A Cross-Cultural Analysis

Polycentric Governance as a Practical Strategy for Balanced Policing: A Cross-Cultural Analysis

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