| 简介： | It is frequently argued that comanagement, or giving resource users a role in the regulatory process, can improve outcomes. We investigate a co management institution wherein users can influence a proposed common extraction cap through costly effort, or lobbying. We develop a model which makes both competitive Nash and cooperative predictions about lobbying to change inefficient initial regulations. We find inexperienced subjects successfully lobby to raise inefficiently low caps on effort, but are unable to lobby to reduce inefficiently high caps; lobbying dissipates almost completely among experienced subjects, when free ridership in lobbying dominates potential gains from a more efficiently managed resource. This highlights an important limitation to participatory governance mechanisms when participation is costly. |