Conflict, Cooperation, and Institutional Change on the Commons

Eric A. Coleman and Esther Mwangi

American Journal of Political Science, 2015, vol. 59, issue 4, 855-865

Abstract: Rational choice scholarship posits two principal theories to explain why political institutions emerge and change: cooperation theory and conflict theory. We evaluate cooperation theory and conflict theory to explain the emergence of common property institutions among a group of Maasai pastoralists in southwestern Kenya. Our empirical results show that the change to common property is best explained by conflict theory.

Date: 2015
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