Collective action requires a set of functions and relationships, a cooperative structure, in a particular pattern. See IAD
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Here the colors identify the forming (green), managing (blue), and surviving (red) processes and stages.
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# You can open the arrows diagram and use the blank nodes for assessment: Collective Action Assessment
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Example assessment done for mountain place in Spain: Arrows diagram 
GraphViz Driver Tree Diagram
digraph { layout=dot; overlap = false; splines=true node [style=filled fillcolor=yellow] "Recognized\nMembership" -> "Common\nUnderstanding" "Small,\nSimple\nSet\nof\nRules" -> "Common\nUnderstanding" "Info\nabout\nResource" -> "Common\nUnderstanding" "Conflict\nResolution" -> "Common\nUnderstanding" "Common\nUnderstanding" -> "Conflict\nResolution" "Info\non\nOther's\nResource\nUse" -> "Common\nUnderstanding" "Governmental\nAgencies" -> "Speed\nof\nAccess\nto\nInfo" "Similarities" -> "Open\nCommunication" "Experience" -> "Percieved\nAlternative\nStrateties" "Experience" -> "Trust" "Similarities" -> "Trust" "Group\nSize" -> "Open\nCommunication" "Percieved\nAlternative\nStrateties" -> "Origin" "Resource\nScarcity" -> "Inter-\ndependence\n/\nsubtractability" "Info\nabout\nResource" -> "Resource\nScarcity" "Inter-\ndependence\n/\nsubtractability" -> "Origin" "Asset\nStructure" -> "Inter-\ndependence\n/\nsubtractability" "Decision\n-making\nCosts" -> "Asset\nStructure" "Decision\n-making\nCosts" -> "Origin" "Decision\n-making\nCosts" -> "Performance" "Group\nSize" -> "Decision\n-making\nCosts" "Group\nSize" -> "Trust" "Legal\nStatus,\nLocal\nPerogative" -> "Percieved\nAlternative\nStrateties" "Open\nCommunication" -> "Percieved\nAlternative\nStrateties" "Trust" -> "Open\nCommunication" "Distance\nto\nResource" -> "Trust" "Distance\nto\nResource" -> "Info\non\nOther's\nResource\nUse" "Governmental\nAgencies" -> "Legal\nStatus,\nLocal\nPerogative" "Dual\nEnforcement" -> "Conflict\nResolution" "Speed\nof\nAccess\nto\nInfo" -> "Info\nabout\nResource" "Technology\nfor\nMonitoring\nResources" -> "Speed\nof\nAccess\nto\nInfo" "Larger\nSystem\nof\nInstitutional\nSupport" -> "Survival" "Conflict\nResolution" -> "Survival" "Small,\nSimple\nSet\nof\nRules" -> "Survival" "Enforcement\nCosts" -> "Performance" "Small,\nSimple\nSet\nof\nRules" -> "Enforcement\nCosts" "Larger\nSystem\nof\nInstitutional\nSupport" -> "Conflict\nResolution" "Larger\nSystem\nof\nInstitutional\nSupport" -> "Technology\nfor\nMonitoring\nResources" "Dual\nEnforcement" -> "Survival" "de\nfacto\nvs.\nde\njure" -> "Survival" "External\nFactors" -> "Rate\nof\nChange" "Governmental\nAgencies" -> "Technology\nfor\nMonitoring\nResources" "Governmental\nAgencies" -> "Dual\nEnforcement" "Governmental\nAgencies" -> "de\nfacto\nvs.\nde\njure" "External\nFactors" -> "Governmental\nAgencies" "Rate\nof\nChange" -> "Survival" "Exogenous\nChanges" -> "Rate\nof\nChange" "External\nFactors" -> "Exogenous\nChanges" "Performance" -> "Survival" "Origin" -> "Performance" }
The above diagram is a driver diagram in GraphViz and it highlights the causal relationships from most enabling or limiting at the top to the outcomes at the bottom that are determined by the higher variables.
> It would be nice to have this model in Vensim.
# Collective Action, Ostrom **Problem:** It is complex and difficult to manage local resources that are both depletable and open to access. (There situations are called "common pool resources" or CPRs). Neighborhoods can usefully conceive of many of their assets as common pool resources.
**Therefore:** Neighborhoods will benefit from using this model since the whole FedWiki for neighborhood platform can support the viability of neighborhood CPR management.
**Notes:**
* Elinor Ostrom and many colleagues have studied how civil society organizations have been successful and unsuccessful in managing common pool resources. From decades of study she and colleagues have created the attached model.
* Jon Walker has correlated the VSM with Ostrom's work and Marc Pierson has correlated Sofi with the VSM. There is a tight concordance among them which supports the notion that neighborhoods with common pool resources can benefit from using these three models, if they are made handy enough.
* Global research on collective action is archived at Indiana University in the Ostrom Workshop
I intend to recast the Ostrom Collective Action framework with OPM. Then it will be possible to integrate many instances of collective action and study the dynamics of successes and failures and discover leverage points.
Recognized Membership Common Understanding Small, Simple Set of Rules Info about Resource Conflict Resolution Info on Other's Resource Use Governmental Agencies Speed of Access to Info Similarities Open Communication Experience Perceived Alternative Strategies Trust Group Size Origin Resource Scarcity Inter- dependence / Subtractability Info about Resource Resource Scarcity Asset Structure Decision -making Costs Performance Legal Status, Local Prerogative Distance to Resource Info on Other's Resource Use Governmental Agencies Dual Enforcement Info about Resource Technology for Monitoring Resources Larger System of Institutional Support Survival Small, Simple Set of Rules Enforcement Costs de facto vs. de jure External Factors Rate of Change Exogenous Changes Origin