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Despite efforts to build the state, profound political order in rural Afghanistan is maintained by self-governing, customary organizations.

Despite efforts to build the state, profound political order in rural Afghanistan is maintained by self-governing, customary organizations.

Since Garrett Hardin published 'The Tragedy of the Commons' in 1968, critics have argued that population growth and capitalism contribute to overuse of natural resources and degradation of the global environment. They propose coercive, state-centric solutions. This book offers an alternative view. Employing insights from new institutional economics, the authors argue that property rights, competitive markets, polycentric political institutions, and social institutions such as trust, patience and individualism enable society to conserve natural resources and mitigate harms to the global...

This book addresses the crisis in modern governance as a result of increasing value diversity and argues that the ensuing societal and political tensions are most effectively managed using a polycentric political economy and a modus vivendi social philosophy. Expert authors discuss the social fragmentation of modern society, rooted in the expanding diversity of values, beliefs and lifestyles generated by globalization and the technological revolution. Chapters present detailed analysis of a wide range of case studies, including a reassessment of contemporary views, a polycentric political...

Although today's richest countries tend to have long histories of secure private property rights, legal-titling projects do little to improve the economic and political well-being of those in the developing world. This book employs a historical narrative based on secondary literature, fieldwork across thirty villages, and a nationally representative survey to explore how private property institutions develop, how they are maintained, and their relationship to the state and state-building within the context of Afghanistan. In this predominantly rural society, citizens cannot rely on the state...