Social inequalities, institutional change, and the persistence of institutions

• In Event: Disaster Politics and Institutional Responses

Brief Overview

This study examines the effects of social inequalities on water allocation rules in smallholder irrigation systems. Our computational model reveals how the persistence of rules is a result of the de jure and de facto political power of elites.

Authors

• Sechindra Vallury, University of Georgia

• Jacopo Baggio, University of Central Florida

• Nathan Cook, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis