Polycentric governance enables collective action on shared resources without any central authority.

Evidence

This refers to the capacity to expand institutions for collective action to larger sets of social-ecological resources, for example, from a forest to world biodiversity or the atmosphere and climate change (Ostrom 2010). Polycentric governance shifts towards a complex form of collective action that includes “multiple centers of decision-making and authority with overlapping jurisdictions (local, national, regional and even international) which interact through a process of mutual adjustment during which they frequently establish new formal collaboration or informal commitments, and their interactions generate a regularized pattern of overarching social order” (McGinnis 2016, p. 5). These centers integrate novel communities within a self-organized system, without any central authority (Ostrom 2010). — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing, 69

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines polycentric governance as decentralized, overlapping decision-making centers forming an overarching social order.
• XREF: Plausibly connects to Ostrom’s own work on commons governance and to Elinor Ostrom’s design principles for common-pool resource management. — 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 commons movements coordinate without central authority through shared goals — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 96
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 69

Related

• Polycentric commons movements coordinate without central authority through shared goals (similarity 0.90)
• New commons govern shared resources without pre-existing rules or formal institutional arrangements. (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Polycentric commons movements coordinate without central authority through shared goals #corroborates (0.95) — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing, 96