Polycentric games and institutions : readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis / Michael D. McGinnis, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Pt. 1. Developing a Framework for the Analysis of Institutions -- Ch. 1. Public Choice: A Different Approach to the Study of Public Administration -- Ch. 2. The Three Worlds of Action: A Metatheoretical Synthesis of Institutional Approaches -- Ch. 3. An Agenda for the Study of Institutions -- Ch. 4. A Grammar of Institutions -- Pt. II. Voting, Conflict, and Leadership -- Ch. 5. Votes and Vetoes -- Ch. 6. Negative Decision Powers and Institutional Equilibrium: Experiments on Blocking Coalitions -- Ch. 7. Policy Uncertainty in Two-Level Games: Examples of Correlated Equilibria -- Ch. 8. Shepherds and Their Leaders among the Raikas of India: A Principal-Agent Perspective -- Pt. III. Rules, Regulations, and Resource Management -- Ch. 9. Heterogeneous Players and Specialized Models -- Ch. 10. Governing a Groundwater Commons: A Strategic and Laboratory Analysis of Western Water Law -- Ch. 11. Bottlenecks and Governance Structures: Open Access and Long-Term Contracting in Natural Gas -- Pt. IV. Models of Monitoring and Sanctioning -- Ch. 12. Transforming Rural Hunters into Conservationists: An Assessment of Community-Based Wildlife Management Programs in Africa -- Ch. 13. Irrigation Institutions and the Games Irrigators Play: Rule Enforcement on Government- and Farmer-Managed Systems -- Ch. 14. Coping with Asymmetries in the Commons: Self-Governing Irrigation Systems Can Work -- Pt. V. Continuing Challenges for Research and Policy -- Ch. 15. Neither Markets nor States: Linking Transformation Processes in Collective Action Arenas -- Ch. 16. A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action -- Suggested Further Readings -- Contributors -- Index.