The Importance of Inequality for Natural Resource Governance: Evidence from Two Nicaraguan Territories
研究了尼加拉瓜两个农村地区在自然资源使用申请和举报处理中的制度实践，发现政治话语权不局限于经济精英的地区更可能形成基于规则的治理，从而限制强权者的否决权。
Natural resources constitute an important axis around which rural territorial dynamics revolve. Based on empirical registration of how applications for and denouncements of natural resource use are dealt with in two Nicaraguan rural territories, this paper examines the importance of inequality for the institutional practices through which district-level governance of natural resource use takes place. Notable differences are identified. The paper concludes that institutional practices which promote rule-based natural resource governance and gradually curb the veto possibilities of powerful actors are more likely to emerge in territories where political voice is not restricted to the economic elite.