Elinor Ostrom

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Elinor Ostrom is affiliated with the following schools: Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University, University of California, Los Angeles, Michigan State University, University of Washington, Arizona State University

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According to Wikipedia, Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom was an American political scientist and political economist whose work was associated with New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy. In 2009, she was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her "analysis of economic governance, especially the commons", which she shared with Oliver E. Williamson. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.

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The Possibility of Cooperation@@@Cooperation: The Basis of Sociability.@@@Cooperation and Prosocial Behavior.@@@Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. (1990) (8730)
Understanding Institutional Diversity (2005) (5566)
A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems (2009) (5346)
The Struggle to Govern the Commons (2003) (3840)
Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources (1994) (3659)
Collective action and the evolution of social norms (2000) (3415)
A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action: Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, 1997 (1998) (2911)
Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems (2007) (2902)
Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems (2010) (2882)
Revisiting the commons: local lessons, global challenges. (1999) (2604)
Property-Rights Regimes and Natural Resources: A Conceptual Analysis (1992) (2419)
A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas (2007) (2405)
Covenants with and without a Sword: Self-Governance Is Possible (1992) (1979)
Crossing the great divide: Coproduction, synergy, and development (1996) (1897)
Polycentric systems for coping with collective action and global environmental change (2010) (1617)
The Drama of the Commons (2002) (1516)
A Framework to Analyze the Robustness of Social-ecological Systems from an Institutional Perspective (2004) (1466)
A Grammar of Institutions (1995) (1321)
Background on the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework (2011) (1221)
COPING WITH TRAGEDIES OF THE COMMONS (1999) (1183)
Crafting Institutions for Self-Governing Irrigation Systems (1992) (1118)
Governing the Commons: Index (1990) (1109)
Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice (2010) (1047)
The concept of scale and the human dimensions of global change: a survey (2000) (1033)
An agenda for the study of institutions (1986) (1008)
Insight, part of a Special Feature on A Framework for Analyzing, Comparing, and Diagnosing Social-Ecological Systems Social-ecological system framework: initial changes and continuing challenges (2014) (862)
Collective Action, Property Rights, and Decentralization in Resource Use in India and Nepal (2001) (841)
Governing the commons (1990) (841)
Going beyond panaceas (2007) (820)
The globalization of socio-ecological systems: An agenda for scientific research (2006) (797)
Institutional Incentives And Sustainable Development: Infrastructure Policies In Perspective (1993) (771)
Coupled Human and Natural Systems (2007) (740)
A Polycentric Approach for Coping with Climate Change (2009) (667)
Analyzing decentralized resource regimes from a polycentric perspective (2008) (646)
Heterogeneity, Group Size and Collective Action: The Role of Institutions in Forest Management (2004) (642)
The Contested Role of Heterogeneity in Collective Action: Some Evidence from Community Forestry in Nepal (2001) (621)
Social capital: a fad or a fundamental concept?* (2005) (612)
Self-governance and forest resources (1999) (594)
Local Enforcement and Better Forests (2005) (583)
Empirically Based, Agent-based models (2006) (583)
CONSUMERS AS COPRODUCERS OF PUBLIC SERVICES: SOME ECONOMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS (1981) (568)
Connectivity and the Governance of Multilevel Social-Ecological Systems: The Role of Social Capital (2009) (568)
Insights on linking forests, trees, and people from the air, on the ground, and in the laboratory (2006) (548)
People and forests : communities, institutions, and governance (2000) (547)
Trust and reciprocity : interdisciplinary lessons from experimental research (2003) (538)
Moving beyond panaceas: a multi-tiered diagnostic approach for social-ecological analysis (2010) (531)
How Types of Goods and Property Rights Jointly Affect Collective Action (2003) (526)
The Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid (2005) (521)
Reconnecting to the Biosphere (2011) (510)
Earth System Science for Global Sustainability: Grand Challenges (2010) (486)
Coping with Asymmetries in the Commons: Self-Governing Irrigation Systems Can Work (1993) (481)
Institutional Rational Choice (2019) (445)
REFORMULATING THE COMMONS (2000) (428)
Private and Common Property Rights (2007) (423)
Public Choice: A Different Approach to the Study Of Public Administration (1971) (406)
Resilience, vulnerability, and adaptation: A cross-cutting theme of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (2006) (389)
The Meaning of Social Capital and Its Link to Collective Action (2007) (382)
A Framework for Analyzing the Knowledge Commons : a chapter from Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: from Theory to Practice. (2005) (373)
Nested externalities and polycentric institutions: must we wait for global solutions to climate change before taking actions at other scales? (2012) (365)
Aligning Key Concepts for Global Change Policy: Robustness, Resilience, and Sustainability (2013) (359)
Foundations of Social Capital (2003) (357)
6. Constituting Social Capital and Collective Action (1994) (341)
Ideas, Artifacts, and Facilities: Information as a Common-Pool Resource (2003) (332)
Lab Experiments for the Study of Social-Ecological Systems (2010) (330)
Generalizing the core design principles for the efficacy of groups (2013) (320)
Analyzing collective action (2010) (320)
The Nature of Common-Pool Resource Problems (1990) (309)
Toward a behavioral theory linking trust, reciprocity, and reputation. (2003) (308)
Local Commons and Global Interdependence: Heterogeneity and Cooperation in Two Domains (1995) (308)
Metropolitan Reform: Propositions Derived From Two Traditions. (1972) (307)
THE RUDIMENTS OF A THEORY OF THE ORIGINS, SURVIVAL, AND PERFORMANCE OF COMMON PROPERTY INSTITUTIONS (1990) (304)
What do people bring into the game? Experiments in the field about cooperation in the commons (2004) (299)
The Challenge of Common-Pool Resources (2008) (296)
Public Goods and Public Choices (2019) (290)
Robustness of Social-Ecological Systems to Spatial and Temporal Variability (2007) (287)
HUMAN ECOLOGY AND RESOURCE SUSTAINABILITY: The Importance of Institutional Diversity (1995) (281)
Crafting analytical tools to study institutional change (2010) (268)
Policing a Free Society. (1977) (268)
The value-added of laboratory experiments for the study of institutions and common-pool resources (2006) (264)
Polycentric governance of multifunctional forested landscapes (2012) (247)
Collective Choice in the Commons: Experimental Results on Proposed Allocation Rules and Votes (2000) (241)
Rent dissipation in a limited-access common-pool resource: Experimental evidence (1990) (234)
RECIPROCITY, TRUST, AND THE SENSE OF CONTROL (1999) (228)
Social Norms and Global Environmental Challenges: The Complex Interaction of Behaviors, Values, and Policy (2013) (226)
The social-ecological system framework as a knowledge classificatory system for benthic small-scale fisheries (2013) (225)
Doing Institutional Analysis Digging Deeper Than Markets and Hierarchies (2005) (221)
Crowding out Citizenship (2000) (217)
An Institutional Framework for Policy Analysis and Design (1999) (214)
Design Principles of Robust Property-Rights Institutions: What Have We Learned? (2008) (213)
The commons in the new millennium : challenges and adaptation (2003) (211)
Rational Choice Theory and Institutional Analysis: Toward Complementarity (1991) (209)
Traditions and Trends in the Study of the Commons (2007) (200)
Seeing the forest and the trees : human-environment interactions in forest ecosystems (2005) (199)
Fifteen Years of Empirical Research on Collective Action in Natural Resource Management: Struggling to Build Large-N Databases Based on Qualitative Research (2008) (196)
Introduction: An Overview of the Knowledge Commons (2007) (192)
Reflections on Vincent Ostrom, Public Administration, and Polycentricity (2012) (192)
Linking the formal and informal economy : concepts and policies (2007) (191)
The Samaritan's Dilemma (2005) (191)
Cooperation in PD Games: Fear, Greed, and History of Play (2001) (187)
GOVERNING SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS (2006) (184)
Planetary Opportunities: A Social Contract for Global Change Science to Contribute to a Sustainable Future (2012) (182)
Playing safe in coordination games: : the roles of risk dominance, payoff dominance, and history of play (2003) (176)
A Framework for Analyzing the Knowledge Commons (2007) (176)
Strategies of political inquiry (1982) (165)
The Danger of Self-Evident Truths* (2000) (161)
Conserving the World's Forests: Are Protected Areas the Only Way? (2005) (157)
Patterns of metropolitan policing (1978) (157)
Navigating Social–Ecological Systems: Redundancy and diversity: do they influence optimal management? (2002) (155)
In pursuit of comparable concepts and data about collective action (2004) (155)
Design principles in long‐enduring irrigation institutions (1993) (151)
[Common property regimes in the forest: just a relic from the past?] (1995) (151)
A Long Polycentric Journey (2010) (144)
Do institutions for collective action evolve? (2014) (142)
Chapter 24 Common-pool resources and institutions: Toward a revised theory (2002) (142)
Explaining Deforestation: The Role of Local Institutions (1998) (139)
Climate change and the integrity of science. (2010) (137)
Improving Irrigation Governance and Management in Nepal (2003) (135)
COLLECTIVE ACTION, PROPERTY RIGHTS, AND DEVOLUTION IN FOREST AND PROTECTED AREA MANAGEMENT (1999) (134)
Beyond Formality and Informality (2006) (125)
What is Social Capital (2009) (125)
Challenges and growth: the development of the interdisciplinary field of institutional analysis (2007) (124)
A Social Science Perspective on Social Capital: Social Capital and Collective Action (2001) (123)
Perspectives on public choice: Neither markets nor states: Linking transformation processes in collective action arenas (1996) (122)
Cooperation and the Commons (2010) (122)
Does Local Community Control of Police make a Difference? Some Preliminary Findings (1973) (121)
Research, part of a Special Feature on A Framework for Analyzing, Comparing, and Diagnosing Social-Ecological Systems Applying the social-ecological system framework to the diagnosis of urban lake commons in Bangalore, India (2014) (119)
Trust And Reciprocity (2003) (119)
The Future of the Commons - Beyond Market Failure and Government Regulation (2012) (119)
The Growth of the Commons Paradigm (2007) (115)
Linking the Formal and Informal Economy (2006) (114)
The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid (2002) (111)
Local government in the United States (1988) (110)
Scale misperceptions and the spatial dynamics of a social–ecological system (1999) (108)
Institutional Capacity And The Resolution Of A Commons Dilemma (1985) (106)
The Public Service Production Process: A Framework for Analyzing Police Services (1978) (104)
Institutions, ecosystems, and sustainability (2000) (104)
Polycentric Systems as One Approach for Solving Collective-Action Problems (2008) (104)
tragedy of the commons (2010) (103)
Institutions and the Environment (2008) (103)
Games in Hierarchies and Networks (1993) (96)
Community and the Endogenous Solution of Commons Problems (1992) (94)
Panarchy: understanding transformations in human and natural systems: Lance H. Gunderson and C.S. Holling (Eds.), Island Press, Washington, DC, 2002, ISBN: 1559638575, 450 pp (2004) (93)
Irrigation Institutions and the Games Irrigators Play: Rule Enforcement Without Guards (1991) (92)
Do We Really Want To Consolidate Urban Police Forces? A Reappraisal Of Some Old Assertions (1973) (91)
Fourteen Years of Monitoring Community-Managed Forests: Learning from IFRI's Experience (2007) (91)
Trust in Private and Common Property Experiments (2007) (90)
The Quest for Meaning in Public Choice (2004) (90)
Human-ecosystem interactions: a dynamic integrated model (1999) (88)
Disturbance, response, and persistence in self-organized forested communities: Analysis of robustness and resilience in five communities in Southern Indiana (2010) (87)
Provision versus Appropriation in Symmetric and Asymmetric Social Dilemmas (2013) (87)
Political Science and Conservation Biology: a Dialog of the Deaf (2006) (87)
Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems: An Impossibility? (2007) (85)
Building Trust to Solve Commons Dilemmas: Taking Small Steps to Test an Evolving Theory of Collective Action (2008) (85)
The evolution of institutions for collective action (2009) (85)
A Behavioral Approach to the Study of Intergovernmental Relations (1965) (84)
Reflections on "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation" (2011) (84)
Analyzing the dynamic complexity of development interventions: lessons from an irrigation experiment in Nepal (2010) (83)
Frameworks and theories of environmental change (2008) (82)
Microconstitutional Change in Multiconstitutional Political Systems (1989) (78)
Diversity and Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems (2008) (76)
Heterogeneous Preferences and Collective Action (2003) (75)
Developing a Method for Analyzing Institutional Change (2007) (75)
Rules and games (1991) (74)
Unlocking Public Entrepreneurship and Public Economies (2005) (71)
An Institutional Analysis of Development Cooperation (2014) (69)
The Social Stratification-Government Inequality Thesis Explored (1983) (67)
Self-organization and Social Capital (1995) (65)
Response: The Institutional Analysis and Development Framework and the Commons (2010) (65)
Creating an Earth Atmospheric Trust (2008) (65)
Communication and Co-operation in a Common-Pool Resource Dilemma: A Field Experiment (2004) (64)
Multi-Level Governance and Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems (2004) (62)
The Core Challenges of Moving Beyond Garrett Hardin (2009) (62)
The Emergence and Outcomes of Collective Action: An Institutional and Ecosystem Approach (2002) (61)
The Puzzle of Counterproductive Property Rights Reforms: A Conceptual Analysis (2001) (61)
The new federalist (1994) (61)
The Variety of Property Systems and Rights in Natural Resources (2010) (61)
Effect of rule choice in dynamic interactive spatial commons (2008) (61)
The Comparative Study of Public Economies (1998) (60)
Institutional Opportunities and Constraints in the Performance of Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems in Nepal ∗ (2000) (59)
Core techniques and cross-cutting issues (2002) (56)
The Performance of Self-Governing Irrigation Systems in Nepal (1994) (55)
Revising theory in light of experimental findings (2010) (54)
Institutional Analysis and Development : Elements of the Framework in Historical Perspective (2011) (54)
Decentralization and Development: The New Panacea (2001) (53)
Size and Performance in a Federal System (1976) (53)
Top-Down Solutions: Looking Up from East Africa's Rangelands (2009) (52)
Collective Action and Local Development Processes (2007) (52)
Competition and Cooperation: Conversations with Nobelists about Economics and Political Science (1999) (52)
CHAPTER 4. Adoption of a New Regulation for the Governance of Common-Pool Resources by a Heterogeneous Population (2007) (50)
On the meaning and measurement of output and efficiency in the provision of urban police services (1973) (49)
Why Do We Need to Protect Institutional Diversity? (2011) (48)
A communitarian approach to local governance (1993) (48)
Collective Action Theory (2009) (46)
Improving Irrigation in Asia: Sustainable Performance of an Innovative Intervention in Nepal (2011) (45)
Self-Governance of Common-pool Resources (1998) (44)
Artifacts, Facilities, and Content: Information as a Common-Pool Resource (2001) (43)
Analyzing the Performance of Alternative Institutional Arrangements for Sustaining Rural Infrastructure in Developing Countries (1993) (42)
Asian irrigation in transition: responding to challenges. (2005) (42)
The International Forestry Resources and Institutions research program: a methodology for relating human incentives and actions on forest cover and biodiversity. (1998) (42)
The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid: Frontmatter (2002) (42)
Dilemma games: game parameters and matching protocols (2001) (40)
A Framework for Analysing the Microbiological Commons (2006) (40)
Irrigation institutions and the games irrigators play : Rule enforcement on government- and farmer-managed systems (1993) (39)
A common-pool resource experiment with postgraduate subjects from 41 countries (2010) (39)
Polycentric Systems: Multilevel Governance Involving a Diversity of Organizations (2012) (38)
SOCIAL CAPITAL AND THE SECOND-GENERATION THEORIES OF COLLECTIVE ACTION : AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH TO THE FORMS OF SOCIAL CAPITAL (2002) (37)
Free/Open-Source Software as a Framework for Establishing Commons in Science (2007) (37)
Legal and Political Conditions of Water Resource Development (1972) (36)
Citizen Participation and Policing: What Do We Know? (1978) (35)
Understanding collective action (2004) (35)
Collective Action, Civic Engagement, and the Knowledge Commons (2007) (34)
Defining and Measuring Structural Variations in Interorganizational Arrangements (1974) (34)
Countering Enclosure: Reclaiming the Knowledge Commons (2007) (34)
Tenure alone is not sufficient: monitoring is essential (2007) (33)
Property in land and other resources (2011) (33)
A Public Economy Approach to Education: Choice and Co-Production (1991) (32)
Incorporating motivational heterogeneity into game-theoretic models of collective action ∗ (2002) (32)
Ecosystems and human systems: a framework for exploring the linkages (2000) (32)
The Challenge of Forest Diagnostics (2011) (31)
A Century of Institutions and Ecology in East Africa’s Rangelands: Linking Institutional Robustness with the Ecological Resilience of Kenya’s Maasailand (2009) (31)
Perspective: Research on the Commons: Lessons for Environmental Resource Managers (2002) (30)
Revisiting the Commons (2017) (30)
Will Lessons from Small-Scale Social Dilemmas Scale Up? (2008) (30)
Institutional Arrangements and the Measurement of Policy Consequences (1971) (29)
A Public Service Industry Approach to the Study of Local Government Structure and Performance (1983) (29)
Converting Threats into Opportunities (2006) (29)
Deliberation, learning, and institutional change: the evolution of institutions in judicial settings (2008) (29)
The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies . By Scott E. Page. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 448p. $27.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. (2008) (27)
Scaling Issues With Social Data in Integrated Assessment Modeling (2002) (27)
Crime and Punishment: Further Reflections on the Counterintuitive Results of Mixed Equilibria Games (1991) (27)
The power and limitations of proportional cutbacks in common-pool resources (2000) (27)
THE COMPLEXITY OF COLLECTIVE ACTION THEORY (2005) (26)
DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND THREATS TO SUSTAINABLE ORGANIZATIONS THAT MANAGE COMMONS (2010) (26)
Social Traps and the Problem of Trust: Theories of Institutional Design – By Bo Rothstein (2008) (26)
Development betrayed. The end of progress and a coevolutionary revisioning of the future: Richard B. Norgaard. Routledge, London. Hardback [UK pound]40.00, ISBN 0415 06861 4, Paperback [UK pound]12.99, ISBN 0 415 0682 2 (1995) (26)
The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid: The interaction of donors, contractors, and recipients in implementing aid for institutional reform (2002) (25)
The delivery of urban services : outcomes of change (1976) (25)
Honoring James Buchanan (2011) (25)
Choice, Rules and Collective Action: The Ostroms on the Study of Institutions and Governance (2014) (25)
The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid: Conflicts of objectives and task allocation in aid agencies (2002) (24)
Managing Resources in the Global Commons (2002) (23)
On the Fate of "Lilliputs" in Metropolitan Policing (1976) (23)
The Governance Challenge: Matching Institutions to the Structure of Social-Ecological Systems (2007) (23)
Policing Metropolitan America. (1977) (23)
The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid: The role of evaluation in foreign aid programmes (2002) (23)
TURFS in the lab: Institutional Innovation in Real-Time Dynamic Spatial Commons (2008) (23)
Cultural norms, cooperation, and communication: Taking experiments to the field in indigenous communities (2013) (23)
Interconnected risks and solutions for a planet under pressure — overview and introduction (2012) (22)
Design principles and the performance of farmer-managed irrigation systems in Nepal (1993) (22)
Institutions and Common-Pool Resources (1992) (22)
Some postulated effects of learning on constitutional behavior (1968) (22)
New Horizons in Institutional Analysis (1995) (21)
The Challenge of Self-Governance in Complex Contemporary Environments (2011) (21)
Governing the Commons: REFLECTIONS ON THE COMMONS (1990) (21)
A multimethod approach to study the governance of social-ecological systems (2011) (21)
The Vital Role of Norms and Rules in Maintaining Open Public and Private Economies (2006) (20)
SES Framework : Initial Changes and Continuing Challenges (2011) (20)
Policy Analysis in the Future of Good Societies (2002) (19)
Scholarly Communication and Libraries Unbound: The Opportunity of the Commons (2007) (19)
Bosses and kings: asymmetric power in paired common pool and public good games (2010) (18)
Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons (2009) (18)
The emergence of polycentric water governance in Northern Thailand. (2005) (18)
How to Build a Commons: Is Intellectual Property Constrictive, Facilitating, or Irrelevant? (2007) (17)
Chapter 9 Community-Driven Development (2003) (17)
Experiments combining communication with punishment options demonstrate how individuals can overcome social dilemmas (2012) (16)
Empirical based agent-based modeling Empirically Based , Agent-based models (2006) (16)
Using Budget Pies to Reveal Preferences: Validation of a Survey Instrument (1976) (15)
Social capital and cooperation: Communication, bounded rationality, and behavioral heuristics (1984) (15)
WATER RIGHTS IN THE COMMONS (2017) (15)
Grandfathering: Environmental Uses and Impacts (2019) (15)
Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis (2000) (15)
An institutional analysis approach: Findings from the NIIS on irrigation performance (1994) (15)
Bridging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide: Strategies for Building Large-N Databases Based on Qualitative Research (2005) (15)
Tragedy of the Ecological Commons (2008) (14)
The Challenge of Crafting Rules to Change Open Access Resources into Managed Resources (2007) (14)
Improving Irrigation in Asia (2011) (14)
Rent Dissipation and Balanced Deviation Disequilibrium in Common Pool Resources: Experimental Evidence (1991) (14)
"The Social and Solidarity Economy and Ostrom’s approach to common pool resources: Towards a better understanding of institutional diversity?" (2018) (13)
Creating an Intellectual Commons through Open Access (2007) (13)
IAD and SES Dynamic Flows: Introducing the Program in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems (PIASES) Framework (2010) (13)
Can Communities Plan, Grow and Sustainably Harvest from Forests? (2013) (13)
Evaluating Police Organization (1979) (12)
Organizational economics: applications to metropolitan governance (2010) (12)
The Quest to Understand Human Affairs: Natural Resources Policy and Essays on Community and Collective Choice (2010) (12)
The Challenges of Achieving Conservation and Development (2011) (12)
Sustainability, equity, and efficiency of irrigation infrastructures (2000) (12)
Governing the Commons: An Institutional Approach to the Study of Self-organization and Self-governance in CPR Situations (1990) (11)
Background on the Institutional Analysis and (2011) (11)
Irrigation sector reform in Asia: from 'participation with patronage' to 'empowerment with accountability'. (2005) (11)
REDUNDANCY AND DIVERSITY IN GOVERNING AND MANAGING COMMON-POOL RESOURCES (2000) (11)
People and participation in sustainable development: understanding the dynamics of natural resource systems. Proceedings of an International Conference, 17-21 March 1996 (1997) (11)
INSTITUTIONAL INCENTIVES AND RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE SUSTAINABILITY (1990) (11)
On Righteousness, Evidence, And Reform (1975) (10)
EconPort: Creating and Maintaining a Knowledge Commons (2007) (10)
Coevolving Relationships between Political Science and Economics (2012) (10)
Economics in Nature: Social dilemmas and human behaviour (2001) (10)
Rules Without Enforcement are but Words on Paper (2009) (10)
ProPErtY rIGHts and Land PoLIcIEs (2009) (9)
Institutional Dynamics, Spatial Organization, and Landscape Change (2008) (9)
The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid: Introduction (2002) (9)
Institutions for Managing Ecosystem Services (2012) (9)
Preserving the Knowledge Commons (2007) (9)
Institutions, Collective Action and Effective Forest Management: Learning from Studies in Nepal (2007) (9)
Adaptation to challenges (2003) (9)
Multi-Mode Measures: From Potholes to Police (1976) (9)
Why Do We Need Laboratory Experiments in Political Science? (2007) (9)
Reprint of: A common-pool resource experiment with postgraduate subjects from 41 countries☆ (2011) (9)
The evolution of norms within institutions: comments on Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich's, ‘Population, development, and human nature’ (2002) (8)
Incentives Affecting Land Use Decisions of Nonindustrial Private Forest Landowners (2005) (8)
Environment and Common Property Institutions (2001) (8)
Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science: Experimental Contributions to Collective Action Theory (2011) (8)
The Contribution of Community Institutions to Environmental Problem-Solving (2009) (8)
Recognizing multiple water uses in intersectoral water transfers. (2005) (8)
Analyzing Long-enduring, Self-organized, and Self-governed CPRs (2015) (8)
Social-Ecological Systems A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of (2012) (8)
Some Thoughts about Shaking Things Up: Future Directions in Political Science (2002) (7)
Sustainable Development of Common-Pool Resources (2008) (7)
Learning from the Co-operative Institutional Model : How to Enhance Organizational Robustness of Third Sector Organizations with More Pluralistic Forms of Governance (2015) (7)
Biography of Robert Axelrod (2007) (7)
Not just one best system: the diversity of institutions for coping with the commons. (2005) (7)
Asian irrigation in transition: service orientation, institutional aspects, and design, operation, infrastructure issues. (2005) (7)
Norms and the Law: How Norms Help Reduce the Tragedy of the Commons: A Multi-Layer Framework for Analyzing Field Experiments (2006) (7)
The Working Parts of Rules and How They May Evolve Over Time (2004) (7)
The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid: Some policy conclusions regarding the organisations involved in foreign aid (2002) (6)
Vulnerability of Social Norms to Incomplete Information (2014) (6)
Human-ecosystems interactions: a basic dynamic integrated model (2000) (6)
Indigenous Communities, Cooperation, and Communication: Taking Experiments to the Field (2011) (6)
Engaging Impossibilities and Possibilities (2007) (6)
Empirical Foundations for Agent-Based Modeling: How Do Institutions Affect Agents' Land-Use Decision Processes in Indiana? (2002) (6)
Governing the Commons: Preface (1990) (6)
Signals, Symbols, and Human Cooperation (2017) (6)
Policing: Is There a System? (1979) (6)
Response to Zakir Husain and Rabindra Bhattacharya's "Common pool resources and contextual factors: Evolution of a fishermen's cooperative in Calcutta" (2005) (6)
CONTEXT AND COLLECTIVE ACTION : FOUR INTERACTIVE BUILDING BLOCKS FOR A FAMILY OF EXPLANATORY THEORIES by Elinor Ostrom Workshop (1999) (6)
Chapter Nine. Pushing the Frontiers of the Theory of Collective Action and the Commons (2010) (5)
Governing the Commons: ANALYZING LONG-ENDURING, SELF-ORGANIZED, AND SELF-GOVERNED CPRs (1990) (5)
Social capital and irrigation management: bringing rigor and evidence to the relationship. (2005) (5)
Social Capital, Self-Organisation, and Development (1996) (5)
Emerging water crisis and political economy of irrigation reforms in India. (2005) (5)
Handeln statt Warten: Ein mehrstufiger Ansatz zur Bewältigung des Klimaproblems (2011) (5)
FARMER AND GOVERNMENT ORGANIZED IRRIGATION SYSTEMS IN NEPAL : PRELIMINARY FINDINGS FROM ANALYSIS OF 127 SYSTEMS (2009) (5)
People's participation in irrigation management in Thailand. (2005) (4)
Grandfathering (2012) (4)
Groundwater markets and irrigation potential in South Asia: a micro study from Nepal. (2005) (4)
The importance of rule enforcement to local level forest management (2003) (4)
The Institutional Perspective on Values and Virtues (2011) (4)
Studying Scholarly Communication: Can Commons Research and the IAD Framework Help Illuminate Complex Dilemmas? (2004) (4)
Commons, Institutional Diversity of (2013) (4)
The Evolution of Institutions: Toward a New Methodology (2009) (4)
Metropolitan Reform: An Annotated Bibliography (1980) (4)
Sustainable development and the tragedy of commons (2009) (4)
Macroeconomic and sectoral approaches (2002) (4)
The Future of the Commons (2012) (3)
COMPLEXITY AND SUSTAINABILITY OF SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS (2009) (3)
Racial Inequalities in Low-Income Central City and Suburban Communities: The Case of Police Services (1985) (3)
Mertonianism Unbound? Imagining Free, Decentralized Access to Most Cultural and Scientific Material (2007) (3)
Soziales Kapital und kollektives Handeln: Eine sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektive auf soziales Kapital (2003) (3)
The future of irrigated agriculture in Asia: what the twenty-first century will require of policies, institutions, and governance. (2005) (3)
The Political Economy of the European Union: An Exploration of EU Institutions and Governance from the Perspective of Polycentrism (2020) (3)
Cultures: Frameworks, Theories, and Models (2018) (3)
Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom (1990) (3)
The Future of the Commons – Beyond Market Failure and Government Regulation (2012) (3)
The Future of Democracy (2000) (3)
Farmer-managed irrigation systems in Asia: subsistence agriculture in transition. (2005) (3)
COVENANTS WITH AND WITHOUT A SWORD: SELF-ENFORCEMENT IS POSSIBLE by (1991) (3)
Use of case studies and structural coding in a relational database for storage and analysis of irrigation institutions and systems in Nepal (1994) (3)
Participatory approaches to irrigation development and management in the Philippines: the next generation. (2005) (3)
Altruistically Inclined?: The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity (review) (2003) (2)
Chapter Three. Broadly Comparative Field-Based Research (2010) (2)
Effects of Different Modes of Assistance on the Performance of Farmer-managed Irrigation Systems in Nepal (2011) (2)
Institutions and the Environment by Arild Vatn Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2005, $121.50 cloth, 496 pp. (2006) (2)
VII.10 Governance and Institutions (2009) (2)
The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid: Embedding externally induced institutional reform (2002) (2)
Moving beyond water provision: strategic issues related to transition of irrigation management in Indonesia. (2005) (2)
Human ecology and resource sustainability : the importance of institutional diversity : Sustainability issues (1995) (2)
Chapter Two. Small-N Case Studies: Putting the Commons under a Magnifying Glass (2010) (2)
The challenge of self-governance in complex, globalizing economies: Collection of revised papers of a PhD seminar (2007) (2)
Common Pool Administration@@@Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (1992) (2)
Institutions and Sustainability of Ecological Systems (2014) (2)
Building a better micro-foundation for institutional analysis (2005) (2)
The Comparative Study of Public Economies (2016) (2)
1. Introduction (1994) (2)
Theory, Field, and Laboratory: The Continuing Dialogue (1997) (2)
2009 Nobels: break or breakthrough for women? Interview by Jeffrey Mervis and Kate Travis. (2009) (2)
A Framework for Analysis of Self-organizing and Self-governing CPRs (2015) (2)
Motives that Drive Shared Living (2019) (2)
Institutions against change. (2005) (1)
Governing the Commons: ANALYZING INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE (1990) (1)
Indiana Law Review (2012) (1)
Updating the Theory of Collective Action and the Commons (2012) (1)
From farmers' fields to data fields and back: A Synthesis of Participatory Information Systems for Irrigation and other Resources: Proceedings of an International Workshop held at the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Rampur, Nepal, 21-26 March 1993 (1994) (1)
Studying the Knowledge Commons (2007) (1)
Designing Effective Intervention for Irrigation Management: Cases from the Indrawati Watershed in Nepal (2005) (1)
Chapter One. Overcoming Methodological Challenges (2010) (1)
Elinor Ostrom Revisiting the Commons : Local Lessons , Global Challenges (2011) (1)
Evaluating Municipal Services@@@Municipal Output and Performance in New York City@@@The Delivery of Urban Services: Outcomes of Change@@@Urban Outcomes: Schools, Streets and Libraries@@@Equality and Urban Policy: The Distribution of Municipal Public Services (1979) (1)
Chapter Four. Meta-Analysis: Getting the Big Picture through Synthesis (2010) (1)
Governing the Commons: A FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS OF SELF-ORGANIZING AND SELF-GOVERNING CPRs (1990) (1)
Response to Comments by Anthony Scott and Gary Libecap (1990) (1)
24. A Method of Institutional Analysis and an Application to Multiorganizational Arrangements (1991) (1)
The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid: Foreword by Elinor Ostrom (2002) (1)
Adapting Institutions: Foreword (2011) (1)
Joe Human and Manoj Pattanaik, Community Forest Management: A Casebook from India. Oxfam GB, 2000. ISBN 0-85598-439-2 Clark C. Gibson, Margaret A. McKean, and Elinor Ostrom (eds), People and Forests: Communities, Institutions, and Governance. The MIT Press, 2000. ISBN 0-262-07201-7 (2004) (1)
Chapter Seven. Agent-Based Models of Collective Action (2010) (1)
Making irrigation management pro-poor: indications of potentials from China and Vietnam. (2005) (1)
A Note for the First Newsletter of the APSA Experimental Section (1)
Disturbance , response , and persistence in self-organized forested communities : overtime analysis of five communities in Southern Indiana (2009) (1)
Why Do We Need to Protect Institutional Diversity? (2011) (1)
The Aid Effectiveness Puzzle (2005) (1)
Deliberation, Learning, and Institutional Change: The Use of Judicial Forums in Institutionally Diverse Settings (2007) (1)
The study of human-ecological systems in the laboratory. (2002) (1)
Standing by Their Conclusion (1976) (1)
Public Policy Analysis. Test Edition. AAAS Study Guides on Contemporary Problems No. 3. (1975) (0)
Elinor Ostrom Prize (2013) (0)
Building New Knowledge Commons (2007) (0)
Guest Editorial, part of a Special Feature on Empirical based agent-based modeling Empirically Based, Agent-based models (2006) (0)
Staging a Career, Staging a Life: Strategies for Retirement (2005) (0)
Interview with Nobel Prize Laureates Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson (2009) (0)
Do institutions for collective action evolve? (2013) (0)
Askö 1994: Commentary by Elinor Ostrom (2010) (0)
Note from the Editors (1989) (0)
Part II. FOCUSING ON RULES (2006) (0)
Back Matter (1994) (0)
Competition and Cooperation: A Conversation with Several Nobelists on Economics and Political Science (1999) (0)
Chapter Ten. Learning from Multiple Methods (2010) (0)
Protecting the Knowledge Commons (2007) (0)
Meanings of Rationality in Public Administration and Public Policy : An Examination of Elinor Ostrom ’ s Work (2011) (0)
Elinor Ostrom Self-Governance and Forest Resources (1999) (0)
Governing the Commons: Notes (1990) (0)
Book review: the books that inspired Raewyn Connell: “Juliet Mitchell’s woman’s estate had the energy and passion of the liberation movement” (2012) (0)
Review: Seeing the Forest and the Trees (2008) (0)
IS POPULATION ECOLOGY A MATURE SCIENCE? Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/Empirical Synthesis. Peter (2003) (0)
APSA Council Minutes (1996) (0)
Chapter 9 Community-driven Development Figure (2003) (0)
Elinor Ostrom Nominated President-Elect (1995) (0)
Book review: the books that inspired Elinor Ostrom: “Lasswell and Kaplan’s power and society broadened my perspective on individual choice and behaviour in a way that was very instrumental” (2012) (0)
Lab Experiments for the Study of Social-Ecological Systems Supplementary Materials (2016) (0)
Governing the Commons: Series editors' preface (1990) (0)
/ 1 . A Call for more Structure in Collective Action Theory (2018) (0)
Foreword (2010) (0)
Appendix 9.1: A Theoretical Puzzle: Why Do Some Resource Users Self-Organize and Others Do Not? (2010) (0)
Nested externalities and polycentric institutions: must we wait for global solutions to climate change before taking actions at other scales? (2010) (0)
Modeling the Criminal Justice System. Edited by Nagel Stuart S.. (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1977. Pp. 319. $17.50, cloth; $7.50, paper.) (1979) (0)
Askö 2001: Sustainability’s Compass – Indicators of Genuine Wealth (2010) (0)
The Comparative Study of Public Enemies (1997) (0)
Evaluating an Innovative Development Intervention a Decade and a Half Later (2011) (0)
Graham R. Marshall, Economics for Collaborative Environmental Management: Renegotiating the Commons, Earthscan;, London (2005) ISBN: 1844070956171, 184 pp. (2007) (0)
The Challenge of Achieving Successful Development Interventions (2011) (0)
Elinor Ostrom Prize (2012) (0)
Foreword - Gilbert Levine (2011) (0)
The Dynamics of Rules: Change in Written Organizational Codes. By James G. March, Martin Schulz, and Xueguang Zhou. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 228p. $55.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. (2002) (0)
Governing the Commons: References (1990) (0)
NEW INSIGHT TO INSTITUTION DESIGN : THE INTERNATIONAL EXAMPLE OF IRRIGATION SYSTEMS MANAGED BY FARMERS (2021) (0)
Bibliographic Note This Report Draws on a Wide Range of World Bank Docu- Ments and on Numerous outside Sources. Background Pa- Pers and Notes Were Prepared (2002) (0)
Space for virtue in the economics of Kenneth J. Arrow, Amartya Sen and Elinor Ostrom * (2016) (0)
Integrating Ecology and Economics (2012) (0)
Rational Lives: Norms and Values in Politics and Society. Dennis Chong (2001) (0)
Foreword - Robert Yoder (2011) (0)
ANALYZING INSTITUTIONAL FAILURES AND FRAGILITIES (1990) (0)
Why macroeconomics needs experimental evidence (2021) (0)
Book reviews (1991) (0)
Contracting and the Commons: Linking the Insights of Gary Libecap and Elinor Ostrom (2020) (0)
Learning from Gal Oya: Possibilities for Participatory Development and Post-Newtonian Social Science. By Norman Uphoff. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. 448p. $34.50 (1993) (0)
Chapter Five. Collaborative Field Studies (2010) (0)
Privatizing Public Lands . By Scott Lehmann. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 248p. $45.00. (1996) (0)
Nobelist Series Continues in New York (1998) (0)
Un son para Elinor Ostrom (2015) (0)
Processes and Procedures of an Innovative Development Intervention Initiated in 1985 in the Middle Hills of Nepal (2011) (0)
Chapter Eight. Building Empirically Grounded Agent-Based Models (2010) (0)
Chapter Six. Experiments in the Laboratory and the Field (2010) (0)
The availability of knowledge in digital form is changing the way some scholars view knowledge (2008) (0)
Working for a living: Poverty Alleviation through Employment Generation in the Commons of Andhra Pradesh (2010) (0)
Elinor Ostrom Speaks about Property Rights (2020) (0)
Post-intervention Dynamics in 2008: Focusing on Two Success and Two Failure Cases (2011) (0)
Steadfast Loyalty (2019) (0)
Erratum (2018) (0)
"Collective Action and Local Development Processes": A Response to the Comments (2007) (0)
Research for sustainability and the European Union: from wish to will - a manifesto (2009) (0)
Economic Governance: the Organization of Cooperation (2010) (0)
part of a Special Feature on Empirical based agent-based modeling Empirically Based , Agent-based models (2006) (0)
EST 603, Research Methods and Design - Handout Supplemental Readings - Systems Approaches * (2010) (0)
Titles, Conflict, and Land Use: The Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier. By Lee J. Alston, Gary D. Libecap, and Bernardo Mueller. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 227. $49.50 (2000) (0)
Community-Driven Development (2001) (0)
12 Questions to … 12 Fragen an … (2006) (0)
Beyond the tragedy of the commons | Oltre la "tragedy of the commons" (2009) (0)
Synthesis and Conclusion (2011) (0)
IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT FROM THE CITIZEN'S POINT OF VIEW (1974) (0)
Collective Action. By Hardin Russell. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. Pp. xvi + 248. $24.00, cloth; $9.00, paper.) (1983) (0)
Book Review: Municipal Output and Performance in New York City (1977) (0)
Chapter 28. Engaging with Impossibilities and Possibilities (2008) (0)
Saggi Comment on Elinor Ostrom / 3 by Guglielmo Wolleb (2018) (0)
Review: The Challenge of the Common Pool Resources (2019) (0)
Two enduring lessons from (2013) (0)
Decentralization reforms and property rights: Potentials and puzzles for forest sustainability and livelihoods (2009) (0)
Making infrastructure dollars work (1995) (0)
Information Disclosure Programs 1-20-11 (2011) (0)
People and Trees: An Institutional Analysis (2010) (0)
Legal and Political Conditions of Water (2016) (0)
Learning from the Field (2014) (0)
APSA Contributors (2018) (0)
Vom Segen des Teilens (2015) (0)

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