2025/05/30 by Pedrazzini, Sabina, Gurtner, Lilla, Aggrey, Vincent +1
#FOS: Psychology #Psychology #Social Psychology #Social and Behavioral Sciences #Switzerland #collective action #commons #cooperation #housing cooperatives
paper · doi:10.17605/osf.io/we287
In commons, members' cooperation is essential to ensure a good functioning of the commons, and, for this reason, we need a deeper understanding of the psychological determinants of cooperative behaviours of individuals who are members of commons initiatives. In the current study, our aim is to test if the Dual Chamber Model of Collective Action (which includes social identity, morality, collective efficacy and perceived injustice, operationalized as anger, as predictors of collective action; Agostini & Van Zomeren, 2021 ) is also valid when applied to explain cooperation in commons, i.e. if cooperation in commons can be considered a particular form of collective action. We will test this model both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. We will take Swiss housing cooperatives as exemplifications of commons. In Switzerland, housing cooperatives arise in urban contexts as a response to the speculative, profit-oriented real-estate market. Their aim is to withdraw dwellings from the classical market, and to offer them at a more accessible price. They also focus on self-organization and participative management, so that residents of housing cooperatives can directly act on their neighbourhood, without the mediation of real-estate agencies. Housing cooperatives are a modern form of urban commons, since a community of users (the members of the cooperative) self-organizes around a shared resource (the building).