Christoph Spehr: Gleicher als andere. Eine Grundlegung der freien Kooperation (2003) [German]

Die Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts hat immer wieder gezeigt, dass Alternativen jenseits des Staatssozialismus, der die politische Form einer Demokratie verwarf, und einer kapitalistisch dominierten Gesellschaft, die sich zunehmend mit Institutionen einer Demokratie verband, kein Bestand hatten. Der “dritte Weg” des demokratischen Sozialismus bleib eine Vision. Soll dies nicht als bloßer Zufall der Geschichte abgetan werden, muß die Frage beantwortet werden, durch welche wirtschaftliche und politische Ordnung soziale Gleichheit verwirklicht werden kann, ohne dabei des Grundprinzip freier demokratiscsher Willensbildung aufzugeben.

Weitere Beiträge von: Frigga Haug, Ralf Krämer, Stefan Meretz, Dorothee Richter, Babette Scurrell, Uli Weiß, Frieder Otto Wolf u.a.

Publisher Karl Dietz, Berlin, 2003
Texte/Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung; Bd. 9
GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
ISBN 3320020390

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Paul B. Hartzog: Panarchy: Governance in the Network Age

Paul Hartzog introduces the concept of panarchy, a sociopolitical field that emerges when connective technologies, which lower the threshold for collective action, enable cooperative peer-to-peer production – of knowledge, of tools, of power.

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Elinor Ostrom: Neither Market Nor State: Governance of Common-Pool Resources in the Twenty-First Century (1994)

“Property rights and tenure issues are important to assure success in efforts to combine appropriate management of natural resources with productivity increases in developing-country agriculture. Failure to understand existing and alternative property-rights arrangements and how they work may result in inappropriate action by governments and nongovernmental organizations. Research to enhance such understanding is of critical importance and occupies high priority within the current five-year plan of IFPRI. While much attention is paid to the negative effects of free access to natural resources and the potential benefits from privatization of natural resource ownership, this lecture describes common-property institutions and illustrates how they may be superior to both free access and private ownership to achieve appropriate natural resource management and sustainability in agricultural production. Professor Ostrom demonstrates how well-meaning government action aimed at environmental protection may destroy existing community-level arrangements to the detriment of both natural resources and the people living in the community. Action by governments and nongovernmental organizations should enhance rather than replace social capital, which has been built up at the community level over generations. Professor Ostrom argues convincingly that local common-property institutions are effective if not essential components of successful future management of natural resources. While some things are best done by governments or the market, others are more appropriately done by community-level institutions, that is, ‘neither market nor state.'”

Lecture given June 2, 1994.

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Lecture Series no. 2
Washington, DC: IFPRI, 1994.
33 pages

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