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New large project on role of a.o. institutions for collective action in elderly care in historical perspective

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has granted Tine De Moor a VIDI-grant (800 k€) to study the biological and institutional determinants of differences in life expectancy at a later age in early modern Europe. De Moor will, together with a team of three Post-doc and PhD-researchers study to what extent differences within Europe in both fertility and institutional diversity in elderly care provisions - both as consequences of the developing European Marriage Pattern in the area of Western Europe - influenced the life expectancy at later age positively. Institutions for collective action, set-up for elderly care- played an important role in supporting elderly people in this area and will form one of the major points of interests of the team working on this group. We will also link our research to present-day collective initiatives in the elderly care sector in the Netherlands. The project will start Fall 2013. Please note that job vacancies for this project will be announced within the next few months. For more information on this new project, click here...

New publication on asset management in historical Holland

The article 'Preferences of the poor: market participation and asset management of poor households in sixteenth-century Holland' by Jaco Zuijderduijn and Tine De Moor has just been published in the most recent issue of the European Review of Economic History. In this article, Zuiderduijn and De Moor aim to detect differences in behaviour towards the capital and land market of households of different sizes and levels of income on the basis of a unique set of sixteenth-century tax records from the Dutch town of Edam. Read more...

The Elinor Ostrom Award on Collective Governance of the Commons

Recently, the Elinor Ostrom Award on Collective Governance of the Commons has been instituted by the Institutional Partners of the Award Council and of the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop of Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Created to honour and develop the legacy of Elinor Ostrom, the award aims to acknowledge and promote the work of practitioners, young and senior scholars involved in the field of the commons. Read more...

New publication on the development of commons in Western and Eastern Europe

In this article, Laborda Pemán and De Moor present their hypotheses regarding the divergence in the development of common-property regimes between Eastern and Western Europe. By comparing the historical development of commons west and east of the Elbe River, they offer some explanatory frameworks to understand and study this long-term development – or lack thereof – of institutions for collective action across the European continent. Read more...

New affiliated researcher and related project

Gabriela Landolt of the Institute for Social Anthropology of the University of Berne is our new affiliated researcher. Gabriela's main research interests are the analysis of institutional change in the context of common pool resource management in the Swiss alpine pasture management. Currently, she is involved in a project studying bargaining processes and rule constitution in the collective alpine farming. Read more...

New related project: 'Change and Adaptation in the Swiss Alps'

This study focuses on common pool resource institutions (CPRs) in the management of Swiss alpine pastures and more precisely on the processes of change and adaptation they go through due to changing conditions. The aim is to identify conditions, which lead to institutional change that fosters ecologically and economically sustainable developments. Read more...