Greetings!
For reading group next week (August 18) we'll be reading Margaret Levi's "On Rule and Revenue" which is a book about legitimacy in governance through a analysis of taxation. You may recall seeing it discussed at some length in Elinor Ostrom's "Governing the Commons."
This coming week we'll be reading the first half of the book (Chapters 1-4). There's a soft copy of the book in PDF here:
https://mako.cc/outgoing/private/dQAjeBJrh61LKp0z/levi-on_rule_and_revenue.p...
The plan is to read the second half of the book next week but it looks like the entire second half of the book is extended historical examples so we decide as a group what to do next week.
After this we're going to read Pamela Oliver and Gerald Marwell's book on the "Critical Mass in Collective Action" which we read a couple years ago but which is important enough that it's worth returning to it for the newer folks who haven't read it yet and for a bunch of us that are planning a paper that is directly inspired by a conversation we had last time we read it.
Regards, Mako