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Book SynopsisAfrican pastoralist societies have institutions that enable them to survive in their semi-arid environment. Managing communally held land has been one key to their success. This book investigates the change even as a number of pastoralist communities have sought to transform their land tenure system from communal to private ownership.
Trade ReviewLesorogol's use of experimental economics in this book is exciting and important. It is the only book that I know of that really examines the causes, processes, and outcomes of institutional change using a full complement of these methods. This book genuinely integrates multiple methods, and makes a strong theoretical argument even more believable and stronger because of the diverse data sets and multiple methods drawn on. - Elinor Ostrom, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science and Co-Director, Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Indiana University.
