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Accountable leadership
- Variable relationship:
Leaders (Leadership) reduce the transaction costs of coordination and public good provision, e.g., coming to agreements, monitoring and sanctioning, infrastructure maintenance (Transaction Costs), and thus favor collective management (Collective Action) of environmental commons in favor of sustainable use (Commons Condition Trend); leaders have to have power to act (Leadership Authority), however, as well as be subject to control to those they are supposed to represent (Leadership Accountability). Powerful leaders that are not accountable to users have room for rent seeking, which may not always be aligned with social welfare or sustainable use. Leaders can co-ordinate actors in times of change and stability.
- Project
- SESMAD
- Sector(s)
- Scientific Field
- Component Type(s)
- Status
- Public
Variables
| Variable | Role | Role Explanation | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leadership | Underlying independent variable | Informal leaders reduce the transaction costs of coordination and coming to agreements and thus favor collective management of environmental commons. Informal leaders may also hold formal positions in organizations. | Formal leader or informal leader |
| Transaction costs | Proximate independent variable | Leaders are willing to take on coordination tasks and reduce transaction costs of carrying those tasks collectively | Low |
| Leadership accountability | Moderating independent variable | Accountable leaders have lower incentives to rent seek or act in ways that do not contribute to the group's welfare | High |
| Leadership authority | Moderating independent variable | The capacity to coordinate of leaders is connected to their autonomy; without autonomy (i.e., from higher level authorities), such capacity to coordinate may not necessarily improve user's welfare maintain appropriate levels of extraction | High |
| Collective action | Intermediate outcome | Leaders promote participation in collective ventures and collective decision making. | High |
| Commons condition trend | Final outcome | High levels of collective-action help to sustain the commons that is being managed. | Remained the same or improved |
Related Theories
| Theory | Relationship | Characterizing Variables |
|---|---|---|
| Conditions for general resilience | nested | |
| Centralization and corruption | related |
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| Transaction costs and collective action | contains |