Tampere University, Faculty of Management and Business, Politics, Tampere, Finland.
University of Oslo, Department of Political Science, Oslo, Norway.
Environ Manage. 2023 Jul;72(1):190-202. doi: 10.1007/s00267-023-01825-w. Epub 2023 Apr 28.
Most experimental studies on common pool resource usage focus on situations in which actors are in symmetric positions when they use the resource. Many real-world cases do not fit this scenario because users are in asymmetric positions regarding their ability to benefit from the resource. Examples range from irrigation systems to climate change mitigation. Moreover, while there is large evidence on the effects of communication on social dilemmas, few studies focus on different modes of communication. We compare the effects of unstructured and structured communication on the provision of an infrastructure for a common pool resource and appropriation of the provided resource. Structured communication applied rules that are based on the ideals of democratic deliberation. Participants made contribution and appropriation decisions in an incentivized experiment. In the experiment, both communication and deliberation increased contributions in comparison to a baseline. Interestingly, deliberation attenuated the effect of the player position more than communication. Our results suggest that deliberation may be useful for overcoming asymmetric commons dilemmas in the field.
大多数关于共有资源使用的实验研究都集中在参与者在使用资源时处于对称地位的情况。许多现实案例并不符合这种情况，因为用户在从资源中受益的能力方面处于不对称地位。从灌溉系统到气候变化缓解，例子不胜枚举。此外，尽管有大量证据表明沟通对社会困境的影响，但很少有研究关注不同的沟通模式。我们比较了非结构化和结构化沟通对提供共有资源基础设施和对提供资源的占用的影响。结构化沟通应用了基于民主审议理想的规则。参与者在激励实验中做出贡献和占用决策。在实验中，与基线相比，沟通和审议都增加了贡献。有趣的是，审议比对参与者地位的影响更小。我们的结果表明，审议对于克服实地不对称共有困境可能是有用的。
