Amy R Poteete
Biographic Data
| ID | 1680690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy R Poteete |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy R |
| FAMILY NAME | Poteete |
| SIGNATURE | POTEETE A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7017-8731 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 178 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Commoning, heterotopia, and transformation
Commoning occurs when people recognize that they share something and develop a sense of mutuality toward each other along with a shared responsibility for whatever they share. Because sharing and mutuality contrast with the individualism, competitiveness, and profit orientation of contemporary capitalist societies, commoning is widely heralded for its transformative potential. Nonetheless, commoning is not inherently transformative. We argue that…
Electoral competition, clientelism, and responsiveness to fishing communities in Senegal
Political clientelism is generally seen as an obstacle to democratic governance and inclusive development. The politics of access to Senegalese fisheries suggest a more nuanced relationship between elections, clientelism, responsiveness, and inclusion. Even where clientelism is pervasive, it takes different forms and interacts with electoral competition to influence the direction and form of political responsiveness. When elections are highly unc…
Election note
Levels, scales, linkages, and other 'multiples' affecting natural resources
Natural resources are affected by several types of "multiples." Some analysts emphasize linkages across multiple scales while others focus on interactions across multi-level institutions or multiple fields of action. Different ways of framing the "multiples" associated with socio-ecological systems are important because they influence what analysts see – and do not see. Given the complexity of these systems, a narrow frame of analysis increases t…
Levels, scales, linkages, and other 'multiples' affecting natural resources
Natural resources are affected by several types of “multiples.” Some analysts emphasize linkages across multiple scales while others focus on interactions across multi-level institutions or multiple fields of action. Different ways of framing the “multiples” associated with socio-ecological systems are important because they influence what analysts see – and do not see. Given the complexity of these systems, a narrow frame of analysis increases t…
Electoral competition, factionalism, and persistent party dominance in Botswana
The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has maintained a super-majority in the National Assembly for over forty years despite increasingly competitive elections. Several factors contribute to the BDP's continued legislative dominance, including features of the electoral system, fragmentation of the party system, and obstacles to strategic voting behaviour. Factional competition has played a particularly important role. Botswana's political institutio…
Environmental Social Sciences
The relationship between human communities and the environment is extremely complex. In order to resolve the issues involved with this relationship, interdisciplinary research combining natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities is necessary. In this 2010 book, specialists summarise methods and research strategies for various aspects of social research devoted to environmental issues. Each chapter is illustrated with ethnographic and envir…
Working Together
Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models. However, which research method or approach is best suited to a particular inquiry is frequently debated and discussed. Working Together examines how different methods have promoted various theoretical developments related to collective action and the commons, and demonstrates the impor…
Repertoires of Domination
Is Development Path Dependent or Political? A Reinterpretation of Mineral-Dependent Development in Botswana
Poor management of earnings from valuable natural resources results in a syndrome known as Dutch Disease, characterised by real exchange rate appreciation, high labour costs, and structural imbalances in economic development. Often a product of rentier politics, Dutch Disease undermines long-term economic performance in resource dependent economies resulting in a 'resource curse'. The conventional wisdom argues that institutions and state develop…
African Politics in Comparative Perspective, Goran Hyden, New York
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Defining Political Community and Rights to Natural Resources in Botswana
Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM), once presented as the best way to protect common pool natural resources, now attracts a growing chorus of critiques that either question its underlying assumptions or emphasize problems related to institutional design. These critiques overlook connections between the definition of rights to natural resources and membership in political communities. The potential for competing definitions of pol…
Fifteen Years of Empirical Research on Collective Action in Natural Resource Management
Heterogeneity, Group Size and Collective Action
Collective action for sustainable management among resource-dependent populations has important policy implications. Despite considerable progress in identifying factors that affect the prospects for collective action, no consensus exists about the role played by heterogeneity and size of group. The debate continues in part because of a lack of uniform conceptualization of these factors, the existence of non-linear relationships, and the mediatin…
Institutional Development in the Face of Complexity
Ideas, Interests, and Institutions
Recent work in international studies and comparative politics scrutinizes the relative importance of ideas, interests, and institutions as sources of policy change. A growing body of scholarship identifies ideas as the main causal factors, influencing perceived interests as well as perceived policy options. Others contend that policies can best be understood as products of institutions. Neither explanation can account for both policy choice by po…
When Professionalism Clashes with Local Particularities
The characterisation of a bureaucracy as Weberian does not capture the ambiguous developmental implications of relations among bureaucrats and other political entities. Nor do electoral politics guarantee broad representation of social interests in policy-making. Local conditions, informal patterns of social and political organisation at the local and national level, the competitiveness of elections, and national structures of administration all …
Heterogeneity, Group Size and Collective Action
Collective action for sustainable management among resource-dependent populations has important policy implications. Despite considerable progress in identifying factors that affect the prospects for collective action, no consensus exists about the role played by heterogeneity and size of group. The debate continues in part because of a lack of uniform conceptualization of these factors, the existence of non-linear relationships, and the mediatin…
Repertoires of Domination
Fifteen Years of Empirical Research on Collective Action in Natural Resource Management
Electoral competition, factionalism, and persistent party dominance in Botswana
The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has maintained a super-majority in the National Assembly for over forty years despite increasingly competitive elections. Several factors contribute to the BDP's continued legislative dominance, including features of the electoral system, fragmentation of the party system, and obstacles to strategic voting behaviour. Factional competition has played a particularly important role. Botswana's political institutio…
Ideas, Interests, and Institutions
Recent work in international studies and comparative politics scrutinizes the relative importance of ideas, interests, and institutions as sources of policy change. A growing body of scholarship identifies ideas as the main causal factors, influencing perceived interests as well as perceived policy options. Others contend that policies can best be understood as products of institutions. Neither explanation can account for both policy choice by po…
Levels, scales, linkages, and other 'multiples' affecting natural resources
Natural resources are affected by several types of “multiples.” Some analysts emphasize linkages across multiple scales while others focus on interactions across multi-level institutions or multiple fields of action. Different ways of framing the “multiples” associated with socio-ecological systems are important because they influence what analysts see – and do not see. Given the complexity of these systems, a narrow frame of analysis increases t…
Defining Political Community and Rights to Natural Resources in Botswana
Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM), once presented as the best way to protect common pool natural resources, now attracts a growing chorus of critiques that either question its underlying assumptions or emphasize problems related to institutional design. These critiques overlook connections between the definition of rights to natural resources and membership in political communities. The potential for competing definitions of pol…
Levels, scales, linkages, and other 'multiples' affecting natural resources
Natural resources are affected by several types of "multiples." Some analysts emphasize linkages across multiple scales while others focus on interactions across multi-level institutions or multiple fields of action. Different ways of framing the "multiples" associated with socio-ecological systems are important because they influence what analysts see – and do not see. Given the complexity of these systems, a narrow frame of analysis increases t…
Institutional Development in the Face of Complexity
When Professionalism Clashes with Local Particularities
The characterisation of a bureaucracy as Weberian does not capture the ambiguous developmental implications of relations among bureaucrats and other political entities. Nor do electoral politics guarantee broad representation of social interests in policy-making. Local conditions, informal patterns of social and political organisation at the local and national level, the competitiveness of elections, and national structures of administration all …
Electoral competition, clientelism, and responsiveness to fishing communities in Senegal
Political clientelism is generally seen as an obstacle to democratic governance and inclusive development. The politics of access to Senegalese fisheries suggest a more nuanced relationship between elections, clientelism, responsiveness, and inclusion. Even where clientelism is pervasive, it takes different forms and interacts with electoral competition to influence the direction and form of political responsiveness. When elections are highly unc…
Election note
Ideas, Interests, and Institutions
Recent work in international studies and comparative politics scrutinizes the relative importance of ideas, interests, and institutions as sources of policy change. A growing body of scholarship identifies ideas as the main causal factors, influencing perceived interests as well as perceived policy options. Others contend that policies can best be understood as products of institutions. Neither explanation can account for both policy choice by po…
When Professionalism Clashes with Local Particularities
The characterisation of a bureaucracy as Weberian does not capture the ambiguous developmental implications of relations among bureaucrats and other political entities. Nor do electoral politics guarantee broad representation of social interests in policy-making. Local conditions, informal patterns of social and political organisation at the local and national level, the competitiveness of elections, and national structures of administration all …
Heterogeneity, Group Size and Collective Action
Collective action for sustainable management among resource-dependent populations has important policy implications. Despite considerable progress in identifying factors that affect the prospects for collective action, no consensus exists about the role played by heterogeneity and size of group. The debate continues in part because of a lack of uniform conceptualization of these factors, the existence of non-linear relationships, and the mediatin…
Institutional Development in the Face of Complexity
Fifteen Years of Empirical Research on Collective Action in Natural Resource Management
Is Development Path Dependent or Political? A Reinterpretation of Mineral-Dependent Development in Botswana
Poor management of earnings from valuable natural resources results in a syndrome known as Dutch Disease, characterised by real exchange rate appreciation, high labour costs, and structural imbalances in economic development. Often a product of rentier politics, Dutch Disease undermines long-term economic performance in resource dependent economies resulting in a 'resource curse'. The conventional wisdom argues that institutions and state develop…
African Politics in Comparative Perspective, Goran Hyden, New York
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Defining Political Community and Rights to Natural Resources in Botswana
Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM), once presented as the best way to protect common pool natural resources, now attracts a growing chorus of critiques that either question its underlying assumptions or emphasize problems related to institutional design. These critiques overlook connections between the definition of rights to natural resources and membership in political communities. The potential for competing definitions of pol…
Environmental Social Sciences
The relationship between human communities and the environment is extremely complex. In order to resolve the issues involved with this relationship, interdisciplinary research combining natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities is necessary. In this 2010 book, specialists summarise methods and research strategies for various aspects of social research devoted to environmental issues. Each chapter is illustrated with ethnographic and envir…
Working Together
Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models. However, which research method or approach is best suited to a particular inquiry is frequently debated and discussed. Working Together examines how different methods have promoted various theoretical developments related to collective action and the commons, and demonstrates the impor…
Repertoires of Domination
Levels, scales, linkages, and other 'multiples' affecting natural resources
Natural resources are affected by several types of "multiples." Some analysts emphasize linkages across multiple scales while others focus on interactions across multi-level institutions or multiple fields of action. Different ways of framing the "multiples" associated with socio-ecological systems are important because they influence what analysts see – and do not see. Given the complexity of these systems, a narrow frame of analysis increases t…
Levels, scales, linkages, and other 'multiples' affecting natural resources
Natural resources are affected by several types of “multiples.” Some analysts emphasize linkages across multiple scales while others focus on interactions across multi-level institutions or multiple fields of action. Different ways of framing the “multiples” associated with socio-ecological systems are important because they influence what analysts see – and do not see. Given the complexity of these systems, a narrow frame of analysis increases t…
Electoral competition, factionalism, and persistent party dominance in Botswana
The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has maintained a super-majority in the National Assembly for over forty years despite increasingly competitive elections. Several factors contribute to the BDP's continued legislative dominance, including features of the electoral system, fragmentation of the party system, and obstacles to strategic voting behaviour. Factional competition has played a particularly important role. Botswana's political institutio…
Election note
Electoral competition, clientelism, and responsiveness to fishing communities in Senegal
Political clientelism is generally seen as an obstacle to democratic governance and inclusive development. The politics of access to Senegalese fisheries suggest a more nuanced relationship between elections, clientelism, responsiveness, and inclusion. Even where clientelism is pervasive, it takes different forms and interacts with electoral competition to influence the direction and form of political responsiveness. When elections are highly unc…
Commoning, heterotopia, and transformation
Commoning occurs when people recognize that they share something and develop a sense of mutuality toward each other along with a shared responsibility for whatever they share. Because sharing and mutuality contrast with the individualism, competitiveness, and profit orientation of contemporary capitalist societies, commoning is widely heralded for its transformative potential. Nonetheless, commoning is not inherently transformative. We argue that…
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