An increasing scarcity of water for crop farming and livestock watering among agropastoralists of Mieso in Eastern Ethiopia has largely disrupted their livelihoods. Indigenous water well maintenance and government initiated rainwater harvesting are two important collective actions common among these communities. With the aim of examining collective action institutions in both cases, we collecte...

Purpose: New approaches to extension service delivery are needed that stimulate increased agricultural production, contribute to collective action and which also foster the emergence of agricultural innovation systems. Research in Peru and Mexico explores some of these new approaches. Design/methodology/approach: In both countries, a qualitative value chain mapping methodology was used to explo...

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BACKGROUND Primary health care (PHC)-based reforms have had different results in Latin America. Little attention has been paid to the enablers of collective action capacities required to produce a comprehensive PHC approach. OBJECTIVE To analyse the enablers of collective action capacities to transform health systems towards a comprehensive PHC approach in Latin American PHC-based reforms. ...

Previous research has shown that (a) positive intergroup contact with an advantaged group can discourage collective action among disadvantaged-group members and (b) positive intergroup contact can encourage advantaged-group members to take action on behalf of disadvantaged outgroups. Two studies investigated the effects of negative as well as positive intergroup contact. Study 1 ( n = 482) foun...

BackgroundIn this paper we examine the role of collective action in assisting rural communities to cope with and adapt to environmental risks in Nepalgunj, Nepal and Krabi Province, Thailand. Drawing upon two case studies, we explore the role of collective action in building adaptive capacity, paying particular attention to the role of social networks.MethodsData for this paper was gathered usi...

Around the world, protests tied to Black Lives Matter movement are highlighting myriad forms of unjust treatment that racial and ethnic minorities face, prompting countries reckon with these injustices. When considering racial/ethnic minorities' motivation engage in collective actions (alongside allies), it is certainly spurred part by witnessing experiencing such treatment. Yet because this in...

We introduce a model for voting under uncertainty where a group of voters have to decide on a joint action to take, but the individual voters are uncertain about the current state of the world and thus about the effect that the chosen action would have. Each voter has preferences about what state they would like to see reached once the action has been executed. That is, we need to integrate two...

One of the toughest challenges to ensure the emergence of collective intelligence and knowledge production is to rightly set individual incentives towards the achievement of a common goal [Pickard et al. 2011]. Unfortunately, most attempts to establish and maintain long-term collective action are confronted with diverging individual incentives [Hardin 1968], and organizational issues [Ostrom 19...

The inherent complexity of polycentric systems of governance brings both benefits and costs. Institutional diversity facilitates collective action by diverse groups within a community, but at the cost of losing any clear sense of the responsibilities and accountability of public officials. Such systems are built up piece by piece over long periods of time, making it difficult to use analytical ...