DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2007230117
论文题名: Voluntary leadership and the emergence of institutions for self-governance
作者: Andersson K.P. ; Chang K. ; Molina-Garzón A.
刊名: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
ISSN: 0027-8424
出版年: 2020
卷: 117, 期: 44 起始页码: 27292
结束页码: 27299
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Common-pool resources
; Governance
; Leadership
; Sustainability
Scopus关键词: adult
; article
; Bolivia
; female
; field experiment
; forest
; human
; human experiment
; leadership
; male
; Uganda
; uncertainty
英文摘要: Strong local institutions are important for the successful governance of common-pool resources (CPRs), but why do such institutions emerge in the first place and why do they sometimes not emerge at all? We argue that voluntary local leaders play an important role in the initiation of self-governance institutions because such leaders can directly affect local users’ perceived costs and benefits associated with self-rule. Drawing on recent work on leadership in organizational behavior, we propose that voluntary leaders can facilitate a cooperative process of local rule creation by exhibiting unselfish behavior and leading by example. We posit that such forms of leadership are particularly important when resource users are weakly motivated to act collectively, such as when confronted with “creeping” environmental problems. We test these ideas by using observations from a laboratory-in-the-field experiment with 128 users of forest commons in Bolivia and Uganda. We find that participants’ agreement to create new rules was significantly stronger in group rounds where voluntary, unselfish leaders were present. We show that unselfish leadership actions make the biggest difference for rule creation under high levels of uncertainty, such as when the resource is in subtle decline and intragroup communication sparse. © 2020 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/163969
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作者单位: Andersson, K.P., Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado–Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, United States, Department of Political Science, University of Colorado–Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, United States; Chang, K., Department of Political Science, University of Colorado–Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, United States; Molina-Garzón, A., Department of Political Science, University of Colorado–Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, United States
Recommended Citation:
Andersson K.P.,Chang K.,Molina-Garzón A.. Voluntary leadership and the emergence of institutions for self-governance[J]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,2020-01-01,117(44)