Although Ostrom neither devalued the state's role and privatization nor attempted to push user self-governance as the only policy option to resolve all CPR problems (Ostrom, 2007), studies relevant to the topic, including her own, tend to employ these design principles in a setting in which the state plays a limited role (e.g., Cox et al., 2010; Schreiber and Halliday, 2013; Wilson et al., 2013).