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It is not the case that When no individual bears responsibility for shared resources, diffused accountability undermines rather than promotes the common interest.
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Collective decision-making and shared governance can create mutual accountability stronger than individual responsibility systems alone.
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Many successful commons (open-source software, Wikipedia) thrive precisely because dispersed contributors coordinate without centralized individual responsibility.
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Diffused accountability may reflect legitimate power distribution, whereas concentrated accountability risks enabling exploitation by those assigned supervisory roles.
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When accountability is diffused among many actors, each individual's marginal impact appears negligible, reducing perceived personal responsibility.
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Tragedy of the commons demonstrates that without clear individual accountability, rational self-interest drives overexploitation of shared resources.
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Monitoring and enforcement of norms becomes prohibitively expensive when responsibility cannot be traced to specific individuals or groups.
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