Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy

Resource Governance

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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In addition to winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her path-breaking research on “economic governance, especially the commons,” Elinor (Lin) Ostrom also made important contributions to other fields of political economy and public policy. This four-volume compendium of papers written by Lin (often with coauthors, most notably her husband, Vincent), along with papers by others expanding on her work, brings together the strands of her entire empirical, analytical, theoretical, and methodological research program. Together with Vincent’s important theoretical contributions, they defined a distinctive “Bloomington School” of political-economic thought.Volume 2 examines Lin’s work on “the commons,” in which she demonstrated that, in many cases, local resource users can solve collective-action problems through common-property management regimes. It comprises papers, including some that are not well known, related to and building on the findings of Governing the Commons (1990). Part I focuses on key attributes of biophysical resources and the institutions human communities have designed to govern them. Part II shows how in various social and ecological circumstances, different sets of institutions facilitate or impede the long-run sustainability of resources. Part III highlights Ostrom’s first major research project on water resources in Southern California. It was a topic she (and her students) returned to with the specific intention of gathering data (more than 50 years’ worth) for longitudinal analyses of combined institutional and ecological change. In sum, this volume contextualizes what is, at present, thought to be Lin’s greatest legacy to social science: the conditions under which resources can be sustainably managed over very long periods of time by the collective action of ordinary people, beyond markets and states.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-09-04
Mått159 x 236 x 37 mm
Vikt789 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor444
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739191088

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Daniel H. Cole is professor of law and professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University Bloomington, where he also serves on the affiliated faculty of the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.Michael D. McGinnis is professor and chair of political science at Indiana University Bloomington. He is a senior research fellow (and former director) of the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.

1. Public Goods and Public ChoicesVincent Ostrom and Elinor Ostrom2. An Agenda for the Study of InstitutionsElinor Ostrom3. How Types of Goods and Property Rights Jointly Affect Collective ActionElinor Ostrom4. Property-Rights Regimes and Natural Resources: A Conceptual AnalysisEdella Schlager and Elinor Ostrom5. The Variety of Property Systems and Rights in Natural ResourcesDaniel H. Cole and Elinor Ostrom6. Reformulating the CommonsElinor Ostrom7. Coping with Asymmetries in the Commons: Self-Governing Irrigation Systems Can WorkElinor Ostrom and Roy Gardner8. Design Principles of Robust Property Rights Institutions: What Have We Learned?Elinor Ostrom9. A Review of Design Principles for Community-Based Natural Resource ManagementMichael Cox, Gwen Arnold, and Sergio Villamayor-Tomas10. Developing a Method for Analyzing Institutional ChangeElinor Ostrom11. The Water Economy and its OrganizationVincent Ostrom12. Conditions of Legal and Political FeasibilityVincent O

This edited volume serves an important need, unmet until its publication. The carefully selected works included in the book coherently showcase the key ideas and assumptions that underlie research on CPR management by Elinor Ostrom and other Bloomington School scholars and inform the design principles identified in Governing the Commons (Ostrom, 1990).... The Resource Governance volume, thus, serves two complementary purposes. First, the volume lays a foundation for probing the institutional settings in which voluntary behavior occurs for the management or delivery of community goods and services. Second, the volume has interdisciplinary appeal as a teaching text for courses on nonprofit organizations, voluntary action, and public policy, among many others. By reading this volume, students will learn about the evolution of a highly regarded research program and the key concepts motivating related studies. They will also be able to identify biophysical and social factors that both shape and are shaped by institutions governing collective action.