Modelling institutional dynamics in historical commons (MIDI)

The Modelling institutional dynamics in historical commons (MIDI) project adopted an interdisciplinary perspective to contribute empirically-grounded and systematic knowledge of the mechanisms driving the process of institutional change. Its starting point is a dataset of European commons-management institutions composed by the Research Team Institutions for Collective Action in the Common Rules-project.

The goal of the project was to exploit our interdisciplinary competences to recode the dataset on the basis of a systematic institutional analysis framework, to fully exploit its potential through the use of data mining and evolutionary analysis techniques, and to embed the resulting knowledge in an agent-based model capturing the essential dynamics of institutional change.

The project involves researchers from various research disciplines from Linnaeus University (Sweden), Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), and Tine De Moor and René van Weeren from the Institutions for Collective Action Research Team (then at Utrecht University , The Netherlands). The project is funded by the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and ran from 1 January 2018 until the end of 2019.

Output

  • Ale Ebrahim Dehkordi, M., Ghorbani, A., Bravo, G., Farjam, M., Van Weeren, R., Forsman, A.,
    and De Moor, T., 2021. Long-Term Dynamics of Institutions: Using ABM as a Complementary
    Tool to Support Theory Development in Historical Studies. Journal of Artificial Societies and
    Social Simulation     24 (4) 7. https://doi.org/10.18564/jasss.4706
  • De Moor, T., Farjam, M., Van Weeren, R., Bravo, G., Forsman A., Ghorbani, A., and Ale Ebrahim Dehkordi, M., 2021. Taking sanctioning seriously: The impact of sanctions on the resilience of historical commons in Europe Journal of Rural Studies 87, 181-188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.08.009
  • Ale Ebrahim Dehkordi, M., Ghorbani, A., Herder, P., Farjam, M., Forsman, A., van Weeren, R., De Moor, T., and Bravo, G., 2021. The Role of Wealth Inequality on Collective Action for Management of Common Pool Resource. In: Ahrweiler P., Neumann M. (eds) Advances in Social Simulation. ESSA 2019. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61503-1_36
  • Forsman, A., De Moor, T., Van Weeren, R., Farjam, M., Ale Ebrahim Dehkordi, M., Ghorbani, A., and Bravo, G., 2021. Comparisons of historical Dutch commons inform about the long-term dynamics of social-ecological systems. PLoS ONE 16(8): e0256803. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256803
  • Forsman, A., De Moor, T., van Weeren, R., Bravo G., Ghorbani, A., Ale Ebrahim Dehkordi, M., and Farjam, M., 2020. Eco-evolutionary perspectives on emergence, dispersion and dissolution of historical Dutch commons. PLoSONE 15(7):e0236471.
  • Farjam, M., De Moor, T., Van Weeren, R., Forsman, A., Ale Ebrahim Dehkordi, M., Ghorbani, A., and Bravo, G. 2020. Shared Patterns in Long-Term Dynamics of Commons as Institutions for Collective Action. International Journal of the Commons, 14(1), 78–90. http://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.959.
  • Animation on temporal distribution of commons in the Netherlands