The Effects of Communication on the Partnership Solution to the Commons

Buckley, Neil J.; Mestelman, Stuart; Müller, Rudolf; Schott, Stephan; Zhang, Jingjing

doi:10.1007/s10640-017-0124-9

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“…Unlike the results that are typically identified, Buckley et al (2017) do not find that global communication leads to a significant reduction in effort devoted to appropriation from the common pool. The controlled laboratory environment introduced in Schott et al (2007) differs from the environments used by Ostrom et al (1994) and the work that followed in several ways, but one difference seemed to be a more likely contributor than the others for the failure of these groups of appropriators to coordinate on a more efficient outcome when they were able to engage in non-binding communication.…”

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“…A study of the role of communication, both among members of output-sharing groups (local communication) and among the all appropriators regardless of their output-sharing group (global communication) is presented in Buckley, Mestelman, Muller, Schott and Zhang (2017) demonstrated both the strengths and weaknesses of the partnership approach to managing the commons. In the process of conducting this study, a baseline role of global communication among appropriators who are not in output-sharing groups was measured.…”

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“…1 An obvious conjecture is that smaller groups are more able to coordinate than are larger groups. Perhaps Buckley et al (2017) had passed the tipping point for effective group coordination with non-binding communication for this controlled laboratory environment?…”

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Many controlled laboratory experiments have shown non-binding communication among appropriators from a common pool to be an effective way to reduce over-appropriation from the commons. The controlled laboratory environments have tended to be environments with fewer than 10 participants. Recent work by Buckley et al. (2017) found that non-binding communication is not successful in reducing appropriation effort in a controlled laboratory environment with 12 participants. A conjecture was that there might be a difference between 12 participants and 8 participants (the typical number used by Ostrom et al. 1994 in their seminal work and used in many subsequent studies by others). This paper presents an environment that utilizes the CPR setting identical to that used by Buckley et al. (2017) reduces the number of appropriators from 12 to 8. Eight sessions (4 with and 4 without non-binding communication) are run using the Buckley et al. (2017) environment with 8 participants. The results suggest that the number of participants may not be an important factor in driving the differences between the impact that non-binding communication has on the Buckley et al. (2017) and Ostrom et al. (1994) environments. Alternate conjectures are presented to account for the differences.

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“…Where members of local communities initially utilized their property rights and local institutions to resist project development within each of the two field trials, this intervention was able to address community mistrust and gain public support for such initiatives. Overall, this approach uses the logic of game theory applied to social dilemmas to demonstrate how anticommons problems come to exist in these contexts and can be solved . The proposed two‐step intervention allows to (i) address fundamental public concerns such as trust in project planners and the ability to evaluate community risk concerns, and (ii) scientifically test community risk concerns over a period of time.…”

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Community‐Driven Hypothesis Testing: A Solution for the Tragedy of the Anticommons

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Shared ownership of property and resources is a longstanding challenge throughout history that has been amplifying with the increasing development of industrial and postindustrial societies. Where governments, project planners, and commercial developers seek to develop new infrastructure, industrial projects, and various other land-and resource-intensive tasks, veto power shared by various local stakeholders can complicate or halt progress. Risk communication has been used as an attempt to address stakeholder concerns in these contexts, but has demonstrated shortcomings. These coordination failures between project planners and stakeholders can be described as a specific kind of social dilemma that we describe as the "tragedy of the anticommons." To overcome such dilemmas, we demonstrate how a two-step process can directly address public mistrust of project planners and public perceptions of limited decision-making authority. This approach is examined via two separate empirical field experiments in Portugal and Tunisia, where public resistance and anticommons problems threatened to derail emerging industrial projects. In both applications, an intervention is undertaken to address initial public resistance to such projects, where specific public stakeholders and project sponsors collectively engaged in a hypothesis-testing process to identify and assess human and environmental health risks associated with proposed industrial facilities. These field experiments indicate that a rigorous attempt to address public mistrust and perceptions of power imbalances and change the pay-off structure of the given dilemma may help overcome such anticommons problems in specific cases, and may potentially generate enthusiasm and support for such projects by local publics moving forward.

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“…The effectiveness and the need for cooperation in the field of public-private partnership (PPP) are being determined in the works of Turovskiy (2017) and Buckley et al, (2017). Property relations reforming in Russia requires not only scientific and theoretical rationale of the mechanism of introduction of new forms of management but also forecasting future changes (Silagadze, 2017;Silagadze, 2018).…”

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Risk Assessment Regarding the Implementation of Public-Private Partnership Projects in the World Practice

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In market conditions, the state bore a heavy burden of functions that might be too heavy and sometimes almost unmanageable because of historical development, deepened by the realities of the world economy, as well as various crisis phenomena repeatedly analysed in this and past centuries. At the same time, combining the possibilities of state regulation and market opportunities of business entities, it is possible to achieve significant results by solving a wide range of issues regarding the provision of public services. The research aims to form the potential structure of the European Union development and global practice in the form of development of publicprivate partnership projects. It is determined by the need that we can agree that the basis of publicprivate partnership (PPP) relations is the interdependence of business and government regulation which is reflected in the existence of the relations between the representatives of public and private sectors. The result of the research demonstrates that the PPP is a form of cooperation in which the state and private sector jointly implement socially significant projects based on the agreement on the distribution of tasks and risks. Indeed, it is an institutional alliance between the state and business established for a certain period for the implementation of a specific project and ceases to exist after its implementation. To accomplish the research objectives, we have developed a methodological approach to the coordination of the economic interests of the PPP participants. The approach includes the implementation of multivariate calculations of the PPP project internal cost using the method of discounted cash flows, revision of the agreement terms and the choice of such values of the PPP agreement parameters.

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The Effects of Communication on the Partnership Solution to the Commons

Cited by 8 publications

References 36 publications

Do the Number of Appropriators from the Commons Matter in Controlled Laboratory Environments?

Do the Number of Appropriators from the Commons Matter in Controlled Laboratory Environments?

Community‐Driven Hypothesis Testing: A Solution for the Tragedy of the Anticommons

Risk Assessment Regarding the Implementation of Public-Private Partnership Projects in the World Practice

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