scholarly journals Who Pushes the Buttons? Investigating the Regulatory Governance of Retail Electricity Tariff Setting in South Africa Through Institutional Analysis and Development

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Kelly
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
Regulatory Governance ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development ◽  
Electricity Tariff

The regulatory governance of retail electricity tariff setting in South Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-220
Author(s):  
Patrick John Kelly ◽  
Hermanus Stephanus Geyer
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Regulatory Governance ◽  
Electricity Tariff

Emerging knowledge commons in the public libraries in South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Williams Ezinwa Nwagwu ◽  
Margaret Molaodi Matobako
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Knowledge Commons ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development

PurposeThis study was aimed to examine emerging knowledge commons in the public libraries in the Thabo Mofutsanyane District in Free State, South Africa.Design/methodology/approachA triangulated sample survey was adopted to collect data from the users of the commons using a questionnaire, and data of community member and the library officers were collected using an interview schedule. The study was guided by Hess and Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development framework.FindingsThe librarians and the commons users recognise the changing nature, roles and services of the libraries without necessarily attributing the changes to the emergence of knowledge commons. Users viewed the commons by the learning opportunities offered by information and communication technologies. They were, however, willing to contribute their resources to boost and enrich the commons; their contributions presently take the forms of volunteering of their knowledge and skill through offering of training sessions to users of the commons. A critical aspect of the commons, namely, participation in the governance and management of the commons resources appears not to be occurring.Practical implicationsTo adequately build knowledge commons in the libraries will require formally introducing knowledge commons in the libraries, doing a systems analysis, deciding on the content and their sources, drawing up a programme for nurturing the system including training of relevant staff and then providing basic infrastructures.Originality/valueThis study used quantitative approach to deploy the institutional analysis development Institutional Analysis and Development framework in the study of public library institution. Studies on knowledge commons in public libraries have not been found.

scholarly journals Laws, norms, and the Institutional Analysis and Development framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 829-847 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL H. COLE
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development ◽  
Type 3 ◽  
Working Rules

AbstractElinor Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework has been described as ‘one of the most developed and sophisticated attempts to use institutional and stakeholder assessment in order to link theory and practice, analysis and policy’. But not all elements in the framework are sufficiently well developed. This paper focuses on one such element: the ‘rules-in-use’ (a.k.a. ‘rules’ or ‘working rules’). Specifically, it begins a long-overdue conversation about relations between formal legal rules and ‘working rules’ by offering a tentative and very simple typology of relations. Type 1: Some formal legal rules equal or approximate the working rules; Type 2: Some legal rules plus (or emended by) widely held social norms equal or approximate the working rules; and Type 3: Some legal rules bear no evident relation to the working rules. Several examples, including some previously used by Ostrom, are provided to illustrate each of the three types, which can be conceived of as nodes or ranges along a continuum. The paper concludes with a call for empirical research, especially case studies and meta-analyses, to determine the relevant scope of each of these types of relations, and to provide data for furthering our understanding of how different types of rules, from various sources, function (or not) as institutions.

scholarly journals Enabling Game-Theoretical Analysis of Social Rules

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nieves Montes ◽  
Nardine Osman ◽  
Carles Sierra
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Multiagent Systems ◽  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
Social Rules ◽  
Agent Interactions ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Agent Interaction ◽  
Normative Multiagent Systems ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development ◽  
The Relationship

In the field of normative multiagent systems, the relationship between a game structure and its underpinning agent interaction rules is hardly ever addressed in a systematic manner. In this work, we introduce the Action Situation Language (ASL), inspired by Elinor Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development framework, to bridge the gap between games and rules. The ASL provides a syntax for the description of agent interactions, and is complemented by an engine that automatically provides semantics for them as extensive-form games. The resulting games can then be analysed using standard game-theoretical solution concepts, hence allowing any community of agents to automatically perform what-if analysis of potential new interaction rules.

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