A Common Pool Resource in Transition: Determinants of Institutional Change for Bulgaria's Postsocialist Irrigation Sector
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goal of improving policymakers. communication between social scientists and Stephan Goetz Pennsylvania State University sgoetz@psu.edu Insa Theesfeld Shaker Verlag, Institutional Changes in Agriculture and Natural Resources, Aachen, Germany, 2005. ISBN: 978-3-8322-3906-0, 308 pp., E28.00 This volume is part of the series âInstitutional Change in Agriculture and Natural Resourcesâ (ICAR) edited by Beckmann and Hagedorn. The study is a result of scrupulous analysis of institutional change in Bulgariaâs irrigation sector during the period of transition to a market economy in the 1990s and early 2000s. It is based on research and empirical observations that spanned two and half years in order to detect the direction of change in the institutional arrangements. The research has evolved within the EU Fifth Framework Programme project âCentral and Eastern European Sustainable Agricultureâ (CEESA). From the very beginning, two main features of this book become obvious: The thorough knowledge of the author of the peculiar features of the transition period in Bulgaria in general, and in agriculture in particular, and the holistic approach chosen to tackle the problems of institutional change in the irrigation system. The main attraction of the book is that it provides a thorough description of the institutional arrangements and those