Polycentric commons movements coordinate without central authority through shared goals

Evidence

(5) Polycentricity: Collective action also includes nested layers of interconnected communities. This fosters the coexistence of a polycentric movement of communities that mutually adjust in a large commons movement but without any central authority; instead, there is an overarching set of principles and shared goals (Ostrom 2010). — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing, 96

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes polycentricity from centralization, capturing Ostrom’s governing insight about order without a single authority.
• XREF: Echoes Ostrom’s work on polycentric governance and parallels distributed systems thinking in other domains. — connects to: New commons govern shared resources without pre-existing rules or formal institutional arrangements. — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 65; Polycentric governance enables collective action on shared resources without any central authority. — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 69; Interdependent individual actions produce collective outcomes no one deliberately chose — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 817 (+4 more)
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 96

Related

• Polycentric governance enables collective action on shared resources without any central authority. (similarity 0.90)
• Coordinated collective action requires others’ co-action, not just identification (similarity 0.84)
• New commons govern shared resources without pre-existing rules or formal institutional arrangements. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Tacit coordination works through mutually recognized focal points #exemplifies (0.85) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 134
• Coordinated collective action requires others’ co-action, not just identification #expands (0.78) — John Drury and Rupert Brown and Roberto González and Daniel Miranda, Emergent social identity and observing…, 113
• Interdependent individual actions produce collective outcomes no one deliberately chose #qualifies (0.70) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 817