Governing the local networks in Indian agrarian societies--an MAS perspective

Authors:
A. Udayaadithya;Anjula Gurtoo
Affiliations:
Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 560012;Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 560012
Venue:
Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
Year:
2013

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Abstract

In a networked society, governing advocacy groups and networks through decentralized systems of policy implementation has been the interest of governance network literature. This paper addresses the topic of governing networks in the context of Indian agrarian societies by taking the case example of a welfare scheme for the Indian rural poor. We explore context-specific regulatory dynamics through the situated agent based architectural framework. The effects of various regulatory strategies that can be adopted by governing node are tested under various action arenas through experimental design. Results show the impact of regulatory strategies on the resource dependencies and asymmetries in the network relationships. This indicates that the optimal feasible regulatory strategy in networked society is institutionally rational and is context dependent. Further, we show that situated MAS architecture is a natural fit for institutional understanding of the dynamics (Ostrom et al. in Rules, games, and common-pool resources, 1994).