Institutions and sustainability : political economy of agriculture and the environment - essays in honour of Konrad Hagedorn

1. Institutions and Sustainability: Introduction and Overview. - 1.1 Introduction. - 1.2 Konrad Hagedorn's Contributions to Institutional Analysis. - 1.2.1 The Politics of Agricultural and Environmental Relations. - 1.2.2 Developing Institutions to Govern Sustainability. - 1.2.3 Managing Common Pool Resources. - 1.2.4 The Future of Institutional Analysis. - 1.3 The Contributed Papers. - 1.3.1 Political Economy of Economic Development and Agricultural Policy. - 1.3.2 Institutions, Governance and Sustainability. - 1.3 3 Property Rights, Collective Action and Natural Resources. - 1.3.4 Challenges to Institutional Analysis Towards Sustainability. - 1.4 Looking Ahead Towards Sustainable Futures. - References. - Part I: Political Economy of Economic Development and Agricultural Policy. - 2. The Political Economy of Agricultural Reform in Transition Countries. - 2.1 Introduction. - 2.2 Why did the Communist Party Reform in China, but not in the Soviet Union? - 2.3 Causes of Differences in Grassroots Support. - 2.4. Experimentation and Reforms. - 2.5 Why were Agricultural Reforms Implemented Gradually in China, but Simultaneously in Many CEE and the CIS States? - 2.6 What are the Causes for the Differences in Land and Farm Reform Strategies? - 2.7 Concluding Comments. - References. - 3. Make Law, Not War? On the Political Economy of Violence and Appropriation. - 3.1 Hobbes and the Political Economy of Violence. - 3.2 The Economics of Violence: How Order Emerges from Predation. - 3.3 The Anthropology of Violence. - 3.4 Ethnographies of Violence and Order. - 3.5 Conclusion. - Acknowledgments. - References. - 4. A Marathon Rather than a Sprint: The Reform of the Farmers' Pension System in Germany and its Impacts. - 4.1 Introduction. - 4.2 Reform in the 1980s: Proposals and Resistance. - 4.2.1 The First Attempt at Reform. - 4.2.2 Redefinition of the Reform Problem (1984-1987). - 4.2.3 The Second Attempt at Reform (1987-1990). - 4.3 The Agricultural Social Security Reform Law (ASRG). -4.3.1 The Decision-making Process and its Rationale. - 4.3.2 Goals and Main Features of the Reform Law. - 4.4 Effects of the Reform. - 4.4.1 Effect on Social Security. - 4.4.2 Stabilisation Effects on Costs and Contributions. - 4.4.3 Distribution Effects. - 4.5 Reform Evaluation and Perspectives. - References. - 5. Complex Policy Choices Regarding Agricultural Externalities: Efficiency, Equity and Acceptability. - 5.1 Introduction. - 5.2 Types of Agricultural Externalities. - 5.3 Complications Arising from Thresholds in the Economic Effects of Externalities. - 5.3.1 A Paretian Relevant Externality. - 5.3.2 An Infra-marginal Externality which is Paretian Relevant for Policy and Which Complicates Social Decisions. - 5.3.3 Some Externalities are Paretian Irrelevant. - 5.3.4. Further Complications. - 5.4 Adverse Selection as an Unfavourable Externality and Possible Threshold Effects. - 5.5 Environmental Externalities and Sustainability. - 5.6 Equity, Efficiency and Agricultural Externalities. - 5.7 Transaction Costs Involved in Public Regulation of Externalities. - 5.8 The Political Acceptability of Economic Policies. - 5.9 Property Rights in Agricultural Genetic Material and Externalities. - 5.10 Concluding Comments. - Acknowledgements. - References. - Part II: Institutions, Governance and Sustainability. - 6. Multi-Level Governance and Natural Resource Management: The Challenges of Complexity, Diversity, and Uncertainty. - 6.1 Introduction. - 6.2 Current Conceptions of Natural Resource Systems. - 6.3 Complexity and Uncertainty in Adaptive Systems. - 6.3.1 Differing Rates of Change. - 6.3.2 Scale Differences and Near Decomposability. - 6.3.3 Disturbance Processes. - 6.4 Implications for the Approach to Management. - 6.5 Implications for the Design of Institutional Arrangements. - 6.5.1 Recognition of Scale Diversity. - 6.5.2 Reducing Error Proneness and Promoting Learning. - 6.5.3 Recognizing the Capabilities and Limitations of Human Beings. - 6.5.4 Multiple Management Goal. - 6.5.5 Recogn