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Research Statement

As a researcher, my main interests lie in finding out how institutions can be used to prevent collective action dilemmas. In a nutshell, collective action dilemmas occur whenever the self-interested, individualistic behavior of social actors leads to results that are not optimal for society as a whole. Primarily, my research agenda focuses on understanding how collective action dilemmas can be prevented or solved when actors use common-pool resources (resources to which almost everyone can have free access to). Go to the Water Governance Project for more information about ongoing research.

Also, check out the Social and Political Network Research website. The site lists faculty at the University of Arizona who study social and political phenomena from a network perspective (this is another area of research in which I'm particularly interested).

Publications and Working Papers.

1. Berardo, Ramiro. 2008. "Generalized Trust in Multi-organizational Policy Arenas: Studying its Emergence from a Network Perspective." Forthcoming in Political Research Quarterly. Click here.

2. Scholz, John T., Ramiro Berardo, and Brad Kile. 2008. "Do Networks Solve Collective Action Problems? Credibility, Search, and Collaboration." Journal of Politics 70(2):393-406. Click here.

3. Berardo, Ramiro, and John T. Scholz. 2007. "Collective Action and the Dynamics of Policy Networks". Under review American Journal of Political Science.

4. Berardo, Ramiro. 2007. "Sustained Collaboration in Southwest Florida: A Study of Resource Exchange in 41 Water-Related Projects". In Rick Feiock and John Scholz (eds.) Self-organizing Governance and Institutional Collective Action. Book manuscript.

5. Berardo, Ramiro. 2005. “The East Central Florida Regional Water Supply Planning Initiative: Creating collaboration”. In Scholz, John T. and Bruce Stiftel (eds.) Adaptive Governance and Water Conflict. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future Press.

6. Berardo, Ramiro. 2008. "Networking Organizations into Public Collaboration: Explaining Collaborative Success in Southwest Florida". Under review Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

7. Diaz de Landa, Martha, y Ramiro Berardo. 1999. "Participation Politica y Eficiencia Fiscal en la Gestion Municipal: Sistemas Jerarquicos vs. Sistemas Abiertos de Decision". Presented at the IV CLAD International Congress on State Reform and Public Administration, Mexico City, October 19-22. Click here (full online version in Spanish).

©2007 Ramiro Berardo - e-mail

Network Analysis

There are a lot of resources in the internet that you can use if you are interested in the study of networks. A good place to start is the website maintained by the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA).

Collective Action Dilemmas

If you do not know what a Collective Action Dilemma is, then take a couple of minutes and learn about it with the "Tragedy of the Bunnies".

Note of caution: the solution proposed to the problem in the "Tragedy of the Bunnies" website is clearly biased towards the privatization of the resource. This is only one of a wide array of possible solutions explored in the discipline.