In many places irrigation systems rely on robust governance for continued existence. Elinor Ostrom listed design principles that should achieve robust governance, but doubted that any list could be both necessary and sufficient to result in robust governance. To date, this assumption has never been formally tested. We conduct a meta-analysis and ultimately evaluate 62 case studies via fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to identify necessary/sufficient conditions for robust irrigation system governance. We identify four necessary conditions and seven configurations sufficient for robust governance. Further, we identify a union of conditions that, when absent, are likely to result in system failure.

在许多地方，灌溉系统要依靠强大的治理才能持续存在。Elinor Ostrom列出了应该实现健壮治理的设计原则，但是怀疑任何列表对于实现健壮治理是否既必要又足够。迄今为止，这一假设尚未经过正式检验。我们进行了荟萃分析，并最终通过模糊集定性比较分析对62个案例研究进行了评估，从而确定了稳健灌溉系统治理的必要/充分条件。我们确定了足以进行健全治理的四个必要条件和七个配置。此外，我们确定了条件的并集，如果不存在，则很可能导致系统故障。