Article: Institutions, intergroup competition, and the evolution of hotel populations around Niagara Falls.

The simple but powerful idea that institutions form the constraints that shape human interaction has had a dramatic impact on economics and political science and is gaining influence in sociology (Eggertsson, 1990; Alt and Shepsle, 1990; Brinton and Nee, 1996). Institutions, in this view, are formal and informal "rules of the game" that, with associated enforcement mechanisms, provide the structure for economic action (North, 1990:3). In this paper, we examine the coevolution of a set of institutions in response to a collective action problem and two populations of organizations. The institutions are rules that developed in response to a tragedy of the commons at Niagara ...

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