Social Capital, Governance and Rural Institutional Innovations

3rd IDARI Workshop HUB presentation 8-11 June 2004, Prague

Social Capital, Governance and Rural Institutional

Innovations

Workpackage 3


Research Group• Humboldt University team:

Prof. Konrad Hagedorn Dr. Cathrine MurrayDr. Volker BeckmannDr. Markus Hanisch

• CIRAD team: Dr. Emmanuelle Cheyns 2 trainees

• PhD students: Ilona Banaszak (PL)Violeta Dirimanova (BG)


Research Group II

• Subcontractors: Dr. Frederic MorandProf. A. Aleksiev and Dr. I. Penov (BG)Prof Csaba Forgacs (HU)Dr. Aija Zobena and Dr. Sandra Sumane (LV)

Dr Romualdas Zemeckis (LT)Dr. Piotr Matczak (PL)Dr Tatiana Kulvankova-Oravska (SK)


Research FrameworkLEARNING AND TRUSTIn the MarketIn non-Market ExchangeIn Common PoolResources

GovernanceStructureLand MarketCommodity MarketBroader Rural DevelopmentPartnershipsEnvironmentalInnovations

SpecificExamplesCaseStudiesBulgariaHungaryPolandLatviaLithuaniaPolandSlovakia


PhD Projects

• Land Fragmentation in Bulgaria: Research questions, hypotheses and empirical methodology

• Producer Groups in Poland: Research questions, hypotheses and empirical methodology

The two PhD students will focus on learning and trust within a marketsetting.


Case Study Projects

• Cooperation for Rural Tourism Product - Comparative case study in Poland, Latvia and Lithuania.

• Cooperation for Environmental Protection- Comparative case study of collective action in Polish and Slovakian National Park.

• Cooperation for Market Development - Comparative case study of land market in Bulgaria and Hungary


Factors affecting Cooperative Strategies

Social LearningOpportunismBounded RationalityCooperative Behaviouramongst IndividualsTrust & ReputationCommunication StructuresNorms & Values


Core Readings• Elinor Ostrom (1998). A Behavioral Approach to the Rational

Choice Theory of Collective Action. In: M.D. McGinnis (ed.), Polycentric Games and Institutions. Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press. 427-521.

• Joel Sobel (2002). Can We Trust Social Capital? Journal of Economic Literature Vol. XL (March): 139-154.

• Insa Theesfeld (2003). Constraints of Collective Action in a Transitional Economy: The Case of Bulgaria’s Irrigation Sector. World Development 32(2): 241-252.

• Franz Gatzweiler (2003). Patterns of Institutional Change for Sustainability in Central and Eastern European Agriculture. Ceesa Discussion Paper No 16, Humboldt University Berlin, Chair of Resource Economics.


Deliverables

• D1:3: Report on the finalisation of doctoral training programme

• D2.3: Working papers on theoretical aspects of the theme

• D3.3: Working papers on personal PhD projects• D4.3: Report on operational concepts translated for

CEE case studies

• D5.3: Report on the description of CEE case study design (including selection of study regions)


Deliverables II

• D6.3: Finalisation of questionnaires and interview guidelines

• D7.3: Report on Datasets• D8.3: Report on the methodology of implementation

of CEE surveys• D9.3: Report on empirical work• D10.3: Reports on integrated results (options and

policy recommendations)• D11.3: Reports on the progress of PhD thesis


Deliverables III

• D12.3: Working papers, consequently submitted to academic conferences and refereed journals

• D13.3: Report on knowledge intensive dissemination products based on empirical work

• D14.3: Report on contribution to the formation of a research network


TimetableJune 2004 Kick-Off of Restructured Idari Project

06/11 2004 Preparation of empirical work for cross-country comparison

Dec. 2004 Description of Case Studies and Empirical Research

January 2005 4th Idari Workshop

01-08 2005 Analysis and OptionsSubmission of Working papers

Nov. 2005 Final Conference

Dec. 2005 End of Project - Dissemination ongoing

Documents

Social Capital, Governance and Rural Institutional Innovations