UWT/TGH 303 Global Challenges Schedule

Governing the Commons
Spring 2009

Version 21 May 2009

Writings on readings are left off of the schedule below for readability. They are due the first class session of each week except for the first week, when the readings are due on Thursday (April 3). Unhyperlinked readings can be found on UWT e-reserves for this course unless otherwise indicated. Hyperlinked readings are to copies that are available via the Internet.

Week 1: March 31, April 2

Topic:Tragedy and Benefits of Commons, Types of Goods
Read:Hardin, "Tragedy of the Commons" (read this one first); Berkes et al, "The Benefits of the Commons."
Due: April 2, Writings on readings, Biography
Resources: Course Overview | Basic definitions | Ostrom Quote | Game | Types of Goods | Model Questions

Week 2: April 7, 9

Topic: Varieties of Commons, Social Dilemmas
Read: Hess, "Mapping the new commons" (skim, don't read for detail); Kollock, Social Dilemmas: The Anatomy of Cooperation
Due: April 7, Writings on readings; April 9, "Discuss candidate commons"
Resources: Definitions related to games | Taxonomies | Forms of Order | Discussion Questions | Cider House Rules | Commons Glossary Wiki | Digital Library of the Commons | International Journal of the Commons | Collective Action and Property Rights (CGIAR/CAPRI) | International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI)

Week 3: April 14, 16

Topic: Property Rights
Read:
Locke, Chapters 2 ("Of the state of nature") and 5 ("Of property") from Second treatise on civil government; Glendon, "'Absolute' Rights: Property and Privacy," in The Essential Communitarian Reader, Etzioni (ed.); Schlager and Ostrom, "Property-rights regimes and natural resources"; Meinzen-Dick et al., Briefs 1, 3, 4, and a brief of your choice (only write one summary that discusses all 4 briefs), In "Collective action and property rights for sustainable development";
Due: April 14, Writings on readings; April 16, Paper version 1
Resources: Week 3 | Example Concept Map | CPR Property Rights

Week 4: April 21, 23

Topic: Tragedies of Commons
Read: Roberts, "To the Ends of the Earth for Seals" from The unnatural history of the sea; Real, "The community-wide dilemma of hospital-acquired drug resistance" (write one paragraph only); Safina, "The world's imperiled fish"; Heller, Can Patents Deter Innovation?
Due: April 21, Writings on readings; Paper version 1 update
Resources: Defs: Organizations, Institutions

Week 5: April 28, 30

Topic:Institutional Success
Read: Stern, "Knowledge and Questions after 15 years of research" from The drama of the commons; Ostrom, "Chapter 3: Analyzing long-enduring, self-organized, and self-governed CPR's"; Benkler, Commons-based Peer Production and Virtue
Due: April 28, Writings on readings; April 30, Paper version 2
Resources: Ostrom quote

Week 6: May 5, 7

Topic:Development Aid
Read: Gibson et al, "Ch. 1: What's wrong with development aid" and "Ch. 11: What have we learnt about aid" in The Samaritan's Dilemma, Evans, "Development as Institutional Change"
Due: May 5, Writings on Readings; May 7, V2 Paper reviews
Resources:

Week 7: May 12, 14

Topic: Institutional Analysis
Read: Ostrom, "Chapter 2: Institutional Analysis and Common-Pool Resources" from Rules, Games, and CPR's; Ostrom, "Chapter 13: Changing rules, changing games" from Rules, Games, and CPR's; Booth, excerpts from The craft of research
Due: May 12, Writings on readings

Week 8: May 19, 21

Topic:Technology and (commons) governance, How to give presentations
Read: Tenenberg "The politics of technology and the governance of commons";
Due: May 19, Writings on readings; May 21, Paper version 3
Resources: An institutional analysis of software teams | Tenenberg paper evolution

Week 9: May 26, 28

Topic: Presentations
Due:May 26, Paper presentations; V3 Paper reviews
Read: No readings

Week 10: June 2, 4

Topic: Presentations
Read: No readings
Due: June 4, Paper, final version

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