The water crisis can alternatively be called a governance crisis. Thus, the demand for good
water governance to ensure effective water resources management and to attain specific …

Is democracy a realistic political ideal? This article historically recovers and normatively
assesses Machiavelli's intuition that democratic institutions are realistically desirable in …

We contribute to the post-crisis literature on macroeconomic stability by arguing that
polycentric banking systems can better achieve stability than monocentric systems. Building …

Since Garrett Hardin published The Tragedy of the Commons in 1968, critics have argued
that population growth and capitalism contribute to overuse of natural resources and …

Looking at two cases of community forests (CF) in Eastern North America, this article
examines their institutional features in order to assess whether they are conducive to …

Institutions are the formal or informal'rules of the game'that facilitate economic, social, and
political interactions. These include such things as legal rules, property rights, constitutions …

This article explores the current crisis of liberal democracy throughout the political thought of
the Nobel laureate, Elinor Ostrom. Different interpretations from political science have been …

According to prevailing evidence, self-enforcing agreements do not scale up. In self-
governing societies, small groups are able to provide order and security when the group is …

Corruption and the Russian Economy examines why the number of entrepreneurs is
declining so rapidly in contemporary Russia, how many economic opportunities are being …

The boom in shale gas production has been accompanied by concerns that polycentricity,
whereby multiple levels of government share regulatory authority, has resulted in an …