Working Together : : Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice / / Elinor Ostrom, Marco A. Janssen, Amy R. Poteete.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Poteete, Amy R.,; Janssen, Marco A.,; Ostrom, Elinor,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 21 line illus. 8 tables.

Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models. However, which research method or approach is best suited to a particular inquiry is frequently debated and discussed. Working Together...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue
• Part One: Introduction
• Chapter One. Overcoming Methodological Challenges
• Part Two: Field Methods
• Chapter Two. Small-N Case Studies: Putting the Commons under a Magnifying Glass
• Chapter Three. Broadly Comparative Field-Based Research
• Chapter Four. Meta-Analysis: Getting the Big Picture through Synthesis
• Chapter Five. Collaborative Field Studies
• Part Three: Models and Experiments in the Laboratory and the Field
• Chapter Six. Experiments in the Laboratory and the Field
• Chapter Seven. Agent-Based Models of Collective Action
• Chapter Eight. Building Empirically Grounded Agent-Based Models
• Part Four: Synthesis
• Chapter Nine. Pushing the Frontiers of the Theory of Collective Action and the Commons
• Appendix 9.1: A Theoretical Puzzle: Why Do Some Resource Users Self-Organize and Others Do Not?
• Chapter Ten. Learning from Multiple Methods
• Notes
• References
• Index