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Gómez, Georgina M.; Knorringa, Peter; Corradi, Ariane Agnes

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“…We will blend analytical categories from both frameworks -institutional bricolage and gradual change -to examine the case of San Felipe Oriente (SFO), a village of Yucatec Mayans that experienced the rise and decline of a community forestry project which aimed to encourage endogenous development. 1 In SFO, the vehicle to achieve endogenous development was an alliance of local cooperatives which functioned as a 'meso institution' (Gómez et al, 2016;Helmsing, 2003), that is, an entity beyond the local level that operates as a link with broader structures and forces. The concept of institutional bricolage helps us to understand how local institutions in SFO adapt, while the theory of gradual change allows us to differentiate change and continuity in the regularized patterns of sociality that govern natural resource management in the Mayan rainforest of Mexico.…”

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“…In SFO, the vehicle to achieve endogenous development was an alliance of local cooperatives which functioned as a ‘meso institution’ (Gómez et al., 2016; Helmsing, 2003), that is, an entity beyond the local level that operates as a link with broader structures and forces. The concept of institutional bricolage helps us to understand how local institutions in SFO adapt, while the theory of gradual change allows us to differentiate change and continuity in the regularized patterns of sociality that govern natural resource management in the Mayan rainforest of Mexico.…”

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Changing Trees, Enduring Forests: Institutional Bricolage, Gradual Change and Community Forestry among Yucatec Mayans in Mexico

Mendoza Fuente,

Marin

2024

Development and Change

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This article seeks to understand why community forestry enterprises in the Mayan rainforest of Mexico are losing ground, while middlemen and manufacturers are regaining control over forestry resources. It focuses on the case of the Ejido San Felipe Oriente where an NGO codesigned a commercialization platform with the objective of bringing together local cooperatives to negotiate in the market from a position of strength. The project was hampered by an internal rupture in the ejido; in investigating this rupture, the authors use the concept of institutional bricolage to understand local power struggles, and the theory of gradual change to search for historical causal mechanisms. They find that the proximate causes of the rupture were family rivalries, suspicions of embezzlement, unfair exclusions, and the disruption of customary practices regarding the distribution of monetary benefits. However, historical continuities lay beneath the power struggle: ejidos in the Yucatan Peninsula have used their function as intermediaries to subordinate local interests rather than promote endogenous development. The authors advocate for an institutional design process that takes account of the unconscious and taken‐for‐granted meanings that influence institutional adaptation; they encourage development practitioners promoting community forestry enterprises in the Mayan rainforest of Mexico to address historical continuities in local institutions as a focal target of development interventions.

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Changing Trees, Enduring Forests: Institutional Bricolage, Gradual Change and Community Forestry among Yucatec Mayans in Mexico

Mendoza Fuente,

Marin

2024

Development and Change

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Institutional efficiency versus stability of local governments in basic areas of activity: the case of Poland

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Lizińska

Wojarska

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Research background: In the last decade, the importance of institutions in determining economic processes and the economic growth is increasingly emphasized. Only a few papers deal with the efficiency of institutions, especially at a local level. Thus, a question arises whether the local authorities, in their pursuit of performing the assigned tasks, make every effort to attain a high level of efficiency? Purpose of the article: The aim of the paper was to determine the relationships between institutional efficiency and identified areas of stability achieved by local governments in their basic roles. Supplementary aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between the type of a municipality (urban, rural or mixed urban-rural) and the efficiency and stability of undertaken tasks. A research hypothesis was put forth, assuming that the institutional efficiency of municipal governments depends on the level of stability in basic areas of activity pursued by a given municipality. Supplementary aim of this study was to analyze and assess the relationship between the type of a municipality (urban, rural or mixed urban-rural) and the efficiency and stability of undertaken tasks. Methods: An accumulated synthetic index of institutional efficiency and partial indices of efficiency in five areas: economic and spatial, financial, administrative, human resources management in municipal offices, provision of social, cultural and educational services, were derived from data acquired from public statistics (Local Data Bank) and from direct investigations conducted in 2015/2016 in 1220 municipalities out of 2479 ones present in Poland. The method for obtaining the index was linear ordering of multi-feature objects. Findings & Value added: The analyses have confirmed the hypothesis assuming that there is a relationship between the institutional efficiency of local governments and stability of the tasks they performed. These dependences varied in individual provinces of Poland. It is more beneficial for local governments to raise stability by attaining some improvement in these areas where it is low, but not at the expense of those areas where it is high. A specific group of municipalities consisted of urban-rural communities. Their complex and diverse structure must meet the challenge of performing their tasks in specific conditions (urban and rural areas).

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Changing Trees, Enduring Forests: Institutional Bricolage, Gradual Change and Community Forestry among Yucatec Mayans in Mexico

Changing Trees, Enduring Forests: Institutional Bricolage, Gradual Change and Community Forestry among Yucatec Mayans in Mexico

Institutional efficiency versus stability of local governments in basic areas of activity: the case of Poland

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