Linking action situations: Coordination,conflicts, and evolution in electricity provision for irrigation in Andhra Pradesh,India |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute of Environmental Systems Research, Osnabrück University, Barbarastr. 12, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany;2. Institute of Geography, Osnabrück University, Barbarastr. 12, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany;3. Ecologic Institute, Pfalzburger Str. 43/44, 10717 Berlin, Germany;4. Department of Rural Development, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Islamic Republic of Iran;1. Ecologic Institute gemeinnützige GmbH, Pfalzburger Str. 43/44, 10717 Berlin, Germany;2. Institute of Geography, Osnabrück University, 49069 Osnabrück, Germany;3. Global Climate Forum, Neue Promenade 6, 10178 Berlin, Germany;1. Department of Justice Studies and Sociology and Social Studies, University of Regina, Regina, Sk, Canada;2. Governance and Inclusive Development, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands;3. UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands;1. University of Washington Tacoma, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, United States;2. Colby College Environmental Studies Program, United States;3. The Ohio State University, School of Environment and Natural Resources, United States |
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| Abstract: | Actor-centred institutional analysis can gain through an expanded focus from a focal action situation to the adjacent situations that make up its structure. Equilibrium outcomes in game models of a focal action situation may not be explainable without considering linked games. The concepts of an ‘ecology of games’, ‘nested games’ or economic network analysis indicate the relevance of this move, but a structured approach to heterogeneous networks of adjacent action situations encountered in resource and infrastructure governance has only recently been developed. This paper draws on the adjacency concept and proposes four types of links, a potential boundary for adjacency networks, and a condition for bidirectional causation between linked action situations. The relevance of the theoretical propositions laid out is empirically supported for the analysis of electricity governance of irrigation in Andhra Pradesh. The actual and empirically observed outcomes, as well as the potential capacity of an adjacent action situation to influence focal outcomes, are analysed through a set of stylised game theory models and their links. |
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