Context matters. Understanding social phenomena requires deep knowledge of their embedded socio-political institutional contexts. The course discusses and applies various perspectives for analyzing the socio-political institutions underlying various social phenomena. It focuses on the development and evolution of institutions, as well as their individual behavioral foundation.
This book explains the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework. This framework examines the arena within which interactions occur, the rules employed by participants to order relationships, the attributes of a biophysical world that structures and is structured by interactions, and the attributes of a community in which a particular arena is placed. The book illustrates how to use the IAD in the context of both field and experimental studies. Concentrating primarily on the rules aspect of the IAD framework, it provides empirical evidence about the diversity of rules, the calculation process used by participants in changing rules, and the design principles that characterize robust, self-organized resource governance institutions.
This book is a complete English translation of the ancient Chinese text Xunzi. Through essays, poetry, dialogues, and anecdotes, the Xunzi articulates a Confucian perspective on ethics, politics, warfare, language, psychology, human nature, ritual, and music, among other topics. Xunzi argues that human nature is bad. However, it also allows that people can become good through rituals and institutions established by earlier sages. Indeed, the main purpose of the Xunzi is to urge people to become as good as possible, both for their own sakes and for the sake of peace and order in the world.
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