Elinor Ostrom

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Elinor Ostrom is affiliated with the following schools: Indiana University, Michigan State University, University of California, Los Angeles, 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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Elinor Ostrom's Published Works

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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) (8723)
Understanding Institutional Diversity (2005) (5464)
A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems (2009) (5201)
The Struggle to Govern the Commons (2003) (3770)
Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources (1994) (3613)
Collective action and the evolution of social norms (2000) (3330)
A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action: Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, 1997 (1998) (2885)
Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems (2007) (2853)
Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems (2010) (2809)
Revisiting the commons: local lessons, global challenges. (1999) (2576)
Property-Rights Regimes and Natural Resources: A Conceptual Analysis (1992) (2380)
A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas (2007) (2359)
Covenants with and without a Sword: Self-Governance Is Possible (1992) (1948)
Crossing the great divide: Coproduction, synergy, and development (1996) (1848)
Polycentric systems for coping with collective action and global environmental change (2010) (1566)
The Drama of the Commons (2002) (1502)
A Framework to Analyze the Robustness of Social-ecological Systems from an Institutional Perspective (2004) (1453)
A Grammar of Institutions (1995) (1290)
Background on the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework (2011) (1191)
COPING WITH TRAGEDIES OF THE COMMONS (1999) (1163)
Crafting Institutions for Self-Governing Irrigation Systems (1992) (1111)
Governing the Commons: Index (1990) (1103)
Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice (2010) (1031)
The concept of scale and the human dimensions of global change: a survey (2000) (1027)
An agenda for the study of institutions (1986) (995)
Governing the commons (1990) (850)
Collective Action, Property Rights, and Decentralization in Resource Use in India and Nepal (2001) (833)
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) (826)
Going beyond panaceas (2007) (814)
The globalization of socio-ecological systems: An agenda for scientific research (2006) (786)
Institutional Incentives And Sustainable Development: Infrastructure Policies In Perspective (1993) (770)
Coupled Human and Natural Systems (2007) (733)
A Polycentric Approach for Coping with Climate Change (2009) (658)
Analyzing decentralized resource regimes from a polycentric perspective (2008) (639)
Heterogeneity, Group Size and Collective Action: The Role of Institutions in Forest Management (2004) (632)
The Contested Role of Heterogeneity in Collective Action: Some Evidence from Community Forestry in Nepal (2001) (615)
Social capital: a fad or a fundamental concept?* (2005) (599)
Self-governance and forest resources (1999) (593)
Local Enforcement and Better Forests (2005) (580)
Empirically Based, Agent-based models (2006) (573)
Connectivity and the Governance of Multilevel Social-Ecological Systems: The Role of Social Capital (2009) (558)
CONSUMERS AS COPRODUCERS OF PUBLIC SERVICES: SOME ECONOMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS (1981) (547)
Insights on linking forests, trees, and people from the air, on the ground, and in the laboratory (2006) (543)
People and forests : communities, institutions, and governance (2000) (543)
Trust and reciprocity : interdisciplinary lessons from experimental research (2003) (528)
Moving beyond panaceas: a multi-tiered diagnostic approach for social-ecological analysis (2010) (525)
The Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid (2005) (518)
How Types of Goods and Property Rights Jointly Affect Collective Action (2003) (515)
Reconnecting to the Biosphere (2011) (502)
Earth System Science for Global Sustainability: Grand Challenges (2010) (478)
Coping with Asymmetries in the Commons: Self-Governing Irrigation Systems Can Work (1993) (471)
Institutional Rational Choice (2019) (466)
REFORMULATING THE COMMONS (2000) (421)
Private and Common Property Rights (2007) (420)
Public Choice: A Different Approach to the Study Of Public Administration (1971) (401)
Resilience, vulnerability, and adaptation: A cross-cutting theme of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (2006) (385)
A Framework for Analyzing the Knowledge Commons : a chapter from Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: from Theory to Practice. (2005) (373)
The Meaning of Social Capital and Its Link to Collective Action (2007) (372)
Nested externalities and polycentric institutions: must we wait for global solutions to climate change before taking actions at other scales? (2012) (355)
Foundations of Social Capital (2003) (355)
Aligning Key Concepts for Global Change Policy: Robustness, Resilience, and Sustainability (2013) (351)
6. Constituting Social Capital and Collective Action (1994) (338)
Ideas, Artifacts, and Facilities: Information as a Common-Pool Resource (2003) (326)
Lab Experiments for the Study of Social-Ecological Systems (2010) (320)
Local Commons and Global Interdependence: Heterogeneity and Cooperation in Two Domains (1995) (308)
Generalizing the core design principles for the efficacy of groups (2013) (308)
The Nature of Common-Pool Resource Problems (1990) (306)
Analyzing collective action (2010) (302)
Toward a behavioral theory linking trust, reciprocity, and reputation. (2003) (301)
THE RUDIMENTS OF A THEORY OF THE ORIGINS, SURVIVAL, AND PERFORMANCE OF COMMON PROPERTY INSTITUTIONS (1990) (301)
Metropolitan Reform: Propositions Derived From Two Traditions. (1972) (300)
What do people bring into the game? Experiments in the field about cooperation in the commons (2004) (295)
Public Goods and Public Choices (2019) (290)
The Challenge of Common-Pool Resources (2008) (286)
Robustness of Social-Ecological Systems to Spatial and Temporal Variability (2007) (281)
HUMAN ECOLOGY AND RESOURCE SUSTAINABILITY: The Importance of Institutional Diversity (1995) (279)
Policing a Free Society. (1977) (265)
Crafting analytical tools to study institutional change (2010) (261)
The value-added of laboratory experiments for the study of institutions and common-pool resources (2006) (253)
Polycentric governance of multifunctional forested landscapes (2012) (242)
Collective Choice in the Commons: Experimental Results on Proposed Allocation Rules and Votes (2000) (240)
Rent dissipation in a limited-access common-pool resource: Experimental evidence (1990) (231)
RECIPROCITY, TRUST, AND THE SENSE OF CONTROL (1999) (225)
Social Norms and Global Environmental Challenges: The Complex Interaction of Behaviors, Values, and Policy (2013) (221)
The social-ecological system framework as a knowledge classificatory system for benthic small-scale fisheries (2013) (219)
Doing Institutional Analysis Digging Deeper Than Markets and Hierarchies (2005) (216)
Crowding out Citizenship (2000) (213)
Design Principles of Robust Property-Rights Institutions: What Have We Learned? (2008) (212)
The commons in the new millennium : challenges and adaptation (2003) (211)
Rational Choice Theory and Institutional Analysis: Toward Complementarity (1991) (209)
An Institutional Framework for Policy Analysis and Design (1999) (208)
Traditions and Trends in the Study of the Commons (2007) (199)
Seeing the forest and the trees : human-environment interactions in forest ecosystems (2005) (197)
Fifteen Years of Empirical Research on Collective Action in Natural Resource Management: Struggling to Build Large-N Databases Based on Qualitative Research (2008) (196)
The Samaritan's Dilemma (2005) (189)
Introduction: An Overview of the Knowledge Commons (2007) (188)
Linking the formal and informal economy : concepts and policies (2007) (186)
Cooperation in PD Games: Fear, Greed, and History of Play (2001) (185)
Reflections on Vincent Ostrom, Public Administration, and Polycentricity (2012) (185)
GOVERNING SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS (2006) (183)
Planetary Opportunities: A Social Contract for Global Change Science to Contribute to a Sustainable Future (2012) (177)
Playing safe in coordination games: : the roles of risk dominance, payoff dominance, and history of play (2003) (173)
A Framework for Analyzing the Knowledge Commons (2007) (171)
Strategies of political inquiry (1982) (165)
The Danger of Self-Evident Truths* (2000) (157)
In pursuit of comparable concepts and data about collective action (2004) (155)
Patterns of metropolitan policing (1978) (154)
Navigating Social–Ecological Systems: Redundancy and diversity: do they influence optimal management? (2002) (153)
Conserving the World's Forests: Are Protected Areas the Only Way? (2005) (152)
[Common property regimes in the forest: just a relic from the past?] (1995) (151)
Design principles in long‐enduring irrigation institutions (1993) (144)
Explaining Deforestation: The Role of Local Institutions (1998) (139)
A Long Polycentric Journey (2010) (139)
Chapter 24 Common-pool resources and institutions: Toward a revised theory (2002) (138)
Climate change and the integrity of science. (2010) (135)
COLLECTIVE ACTION, PROPERTY RIGHTS, AND DEVOLUTION IN FOREST AND PROTECTED AREA MANAGEMENT (1999) (134)
Improving Irrigation Governance and Management in Nepal (2003) (134)
Do institutions for collective action evolve? (2014) (132)
What is Social Capital (2009) (125)
A Social Science Perspective on Social Capital: Social Capital and Collective Action (2001) (121)
Challenges and growth: the development of the interdisciplinary field of institutional analysis (2007) (121)
Perspectives on public choice: Neither markets nor states: Linking transformation processes in collective action arenas (1996) (121)
Trust And Reciprocity (2003) (120)
Beyond Formality and Informality (2006) (120)
Does Local Community Control of Police make a Difference? Some Preliminary Findings (1973) (118)
Cooperation and the Commons (2010) (118)
The Future of the Commons - Beyond Market Failure and Government Regulation (2012) (116)
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) (115)
The Growth of the Commons Paradigm (2007) (113)
The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid (2002) (111)
Local government in the United States (1988) (110)
Linking the Formal and Informal Economy (2006) (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)
Institutions, ecosystems, and sustainability (2000) (104)
tragedy of the commons (2010) (103)
Polycentric Systems as One Approach for Solving Collective-Action Problems (2008) (103)
The Public Service Production Process: A Framework for Analyzing Police Services (1978) (102)
Institutions and the Environment (2008) (98)
Games in Hierarchies and Networks (1993) (97)
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) (92)
Community and the Endogenous Solution of Commons Problems (1992) (91)
Irrigation Institutions and the Games Irrigators Play: Rule Enforcement Without Guards (1991) (91)
Trust in Private and Common Property Experiments (2007) (90)
Fourteen Years of Monitoring Community-Managed Forests: Learning from IFRI's Experience (2007) (90)
Do We Really Want To Consolidate Urban Police Forces? A Reappraisal Of Some Old Assertions (1973) (89)
The Quest for Meaning in Public Choice (2004) (88)
Political Science and Conservation Biology: a Dialog of the Deaf (2006) (87)
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)
Human-ecosystem interactions: a dynamic integrated model (1999) (86)
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) (84)
The evolution of institutions for collective action (2009) (84)
A Behavioral Approach to the Study of Intergovernmental Relations (1965) (83)
Reflections on "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation" (2011) (83)
Frameworks and theories of environmental change (2008) (82)
Analyzing the dynamic complexity of development interventions: lessons from an irrigation experiment in Nepal (2010) (81)
Microconstitutional Change in Multiconstitutional Political Systems (1989) (77)
Developing a Method for Analyzing Institutional Change (2007) (75)
Diversity and Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems (2008) (75)
Heterogeneous Preferences and Collective Action (2003) (73)
Rules and games (1991) (71)
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)
Creating an Earth Atmospheric Trust (2008) (65)
Response: The Institutional Analysis and Development Framework and the Commons (2010) (64)
Communication and Co-operation in a Common-Pool Resource Dilemma: A Field Experiment (2004) (63)
The Core Challenges of Moving Beyond Garrett Hardin (2009) (62)
Self-organization and Social Capital (1995) (61)
The Puzzle of Counterproductive Property Rights Reforms: A Conceptual Analysis (2001) (61)
Multi-Level Governance and Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems (2004) (61)
The Emergence and Outcomes of Collective Action: An Institutional and Ecosystem Approach (2002) (61)
The new federalist (1994) (61)
The Variety of Property Systems and Rights in Natural Resources (2010) (60)
The Comparative Study of Public Economies (1998) (59)
Institutional Opportunities and Constraints in the Performance of Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems in Nepal ∗ (2000) (58)
Effect of rule choice in dynamic interactive spatial commons (2008) (58)
Core techniques and cross-cutting issues (2002) (56)
Institutional Analysis and Development : Elements of the Framework in Historical Perspective (2011) (54)
Revising theory in light of experimental findings (2010) (53)
The Performance of Self-Governing Irrigation Systems in Nepal (1994) (53)
Decentralization and Development: The New Panacea (2001) (53)
Collective Action and Local Development Processes (2007) (52)
Top-Down Solutions: Looking Up from East Africa's Rangelands (2009) (52)
Size and Performance in a Federal System (1976) (52)
Competition and Cooperation: Conversations with Nobelists about Economics and Political Science (1999) (51)
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) (47)
A communitarian approach to local governance (1993) (47)
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) (43)
The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid: Frontmatter (2002) (42)
Asian irrigation in transition: responding to challenges. (2005) (42)
Artifacts, Facilities, and Content: Information as a Common-Pool Resource (2001) (42)
The International Forestry Resources and Institutions research program: a methodology for relating human incentives and actions on forest cover and biodiversity. (1998) (42)
Analyzing the Performance of Alternative Institutional Arrangements for Sustaining Rural Infrastructure in Developing Countries (1993) (40)
Dilemma games: game parameters and matching protocols (2001) (40)
A common-pool resource experiment with postgraduate subjects from 41 countries (2010) (39)
A Framework for Analysing the Microbiological Commons (2006) (39)
Irrigation institutions and the games irrigators play : Rule enforcement on government- and farmer-managed systems (1993) (39)
Polycentric Systems: Multilevel Governance Involving a Diversity of Organizations (2012) (37)
Free/Open-Source Software as a Framework for Establishing Commons in Science (2007) (37)
SOCIAL CAPITAL AND THE SECOND-GENERATION THEORIES OF COLLECTIVE ACTION : AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH TO THE FORMS OF SOCIAL CAPITAL (2002) (36)
Legal and Political Conditions of Water Resource Development (1972) (36)
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)
Ecosystems and human systems: a framework for exploring the linkages (2000) (32)
Property in land and other resources (2011) (32)
Incorporating motivational heterogeneity into game-theoretic models of collective action ∗ (2002) (32)
A Century of Institutions and Ecology in East Africa’s Rangelands: Linking Institutional Robustness with the Ecological Resilience of Kenya’s Maasailand (2009) (31)
The Challenge of Forest Diagnostics (2011) (31)
Citizen Participation and Policing: What Do We Know? (1978) (31)
A Public Economy Approach to Education: Choice and Co-Production (1991) (30)
Will Lessons from Small-Scale Social Dilemmas Scale Up? (2008) (30)
Perspective: Research on the Commons: Lessons for Environmental Resource Managers (2002) (30)
Revisiting the Commons (2017) (29)
Converting Threats into Opportunities (2006) (29)
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)
Deliberation, learning, and institutional change: the evolution of institutions in judicial settings (2008) (29)
Crime and Punishment: Further Reflections on the Counterintuitive Results of Mixed Equilibria Games (1991) (27)
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)
The power and limitations of proportional cutbacks in common-pool resources (2000) (27)
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)
Choice, Rules and Collective Action: The Ostroms on the Study of Institutions and Governance (2014) (25)
THE COMPLEXITY OF COLLECTIVE ACTION THEORY (2005) (25)
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) (25)
The delivery of urban services : outcomes of change (1976) (25)
The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid: Conflicts of objectives and task allocation in aid agencies (2002) (24)
The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid: The interaction of donors, contractors, and recipients in implementing aid for institutional reform (2002) (24)
Honoring James Buchanan (2011) (24)
Policing Metropolitan America. (1977) (23)
The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid: The role of evaluation in foreign aid programmes (2002) (23)
The Governance Challenge: Matching Institutions to the Structure of Social-Ecological Systems (2007) (23)
On the Fate of "Lilliputs" in Metropolitan Policing (1976) (23)
Managing Resources in the Global Commons (2002) (23)
Interconnected risks and solutions for a planet under pressure — overview and introduction (2012) (22)
Cultural norms, cooperation, and communication: Taking experiments to the field in indigenous communities (2013) (22)
TURFS in the lab: Institutional Innovation in Real-Time Dynamic Spatial Commons (2008) (22)
Design principles and the performance of farmer-managed irrigation systems in Nepal (1993) (22)
Institutions and Common-Pool Resources (1992) (21)
New Horizons in Institutional Analysis (1995) (21)
Some postulated effects of learning on constitutional behavior (1968) (21)
The Challenge of Self-Governance in Complex Contemporary Environments (2011) (21)
A multimethod approach to study the governance of social-ecological systems (2011) (21)
Governing the Commons: REFLECTIONS ON THE COMMONS (1990) (20)
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)
Scholarly Communication and Libraries Unbound: The Opportunity of the Commons (2007) (19)
Policy Analysis in the Future of Good Societies (2002) (19)
Bosses and kings: asymmetric power in paired common pool and public good games (2010) (18)
The emergence of polycentric water governance in Northern Thailand. (2005) (18)
Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons (2009) (18)
Empirical based agent-based modeling Empirically Based , Agent-based models (2006) (17)
Chapter 9 Community-Driven Development (2003) (17)
How to Build a Commons: Is Intellectual Property Constrictive, Facilitating, or Irrelevant? (2007) (17)
Experiments combining communication with punishment options demonstrate how individuals can overcome social dilemmas (2012) (16)
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)
Social capital and cooperation: Communication, bounded rationality, and behavioral heuristics (1984) (15)
Tragedy of the Ecological Commons (2008) (14)
Improving Irrigation in Asia (2011) (14)
Rent Dissipation and Balanced Deviation Disequilibrium in Common Pool Resources: Experimental Evidence (1991) (14)
Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis (2000) (14)
Using Budget Pies to Reveal Preferences: Validation of a Survey Instrument (1976) (14)
WATER RIGHTS IN THE COMMONS (2017) (14)
Grandfathering: Environmental Uses and Impacts (2019) (14)
The Challenge of Crafting Rules to Change Open Access Resources into Managed Resources (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)
Creating an Intellectual Commons through Open Access (2007) (13)
"The Social and Solidarity Economy and Ostrom’s approach to common pool resources: Towards a better understanding of institutional diversity?" (2018) (12)
Organizational economics: applications to metropolitan governance (2010) (12)
Sustainability, equity, and efficiency of irrigation infrastructures (2000) (12)
The Challenges of Achieving Conservation and Development (2011) (12)
The Quest to Understand Human Affairs: Natural Resources Policy and Essays on Community and Collective Choice (2010) (12)
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)
Background on the Institutional Analysis and (2011) (11)
Irrigation sector reform in Asia: from 'participation with patronage' to 'empowerment with accountability'. (2005) (11)
Evaluating Police Organization (1979) (11)
Governing the Commons: An Institutional Approach to the Study of Self-organization and Self-governance in CPR Situations (1990) (11)
INSTITUTIONAL INCENTIVES AND RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE SUSTAINABILITY (1990) (11)
Rules Without Enforcement are but Words on Paper (2009) (10)
Economics in Nature: Social dilemmas and human behaviour (2001) (10)
EconPort: Creating and Maintaining a Knowledge Commons (2007) (10)
Coevolving Relationships between Political Science and Economics (2012) (10)
On Righteousness, Evidence, And Reform (1975) (10)
Multi-Mode Measures: From Potholes to Police (1976) (9)
Institutional Dynamics, Spatial Organization, and Landscape Change (2008) (9)
Adaptation to challenges (2003) (9)
Institutions for Managing Ecosystem Services (2012) (9)
Reprint of: A common-pool resource experiment with postgraduate subjects from 41 countries☆ (2011) (9)
The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid: Introduction (2002) (9)
ProPErtY rIGHts and Land PoLIcIEs (2009) (9)
Preserving the Knowledge Commons (2007) (9)
Institutions, Collective Action and Effective Forest Management: Learning from Studies in Nepal (2007) (9)
Incentives Affecting Land Use Decisions of Nonindustrial Private Forest Landowners (2005) (9)
Why Do We Need Laboratory Experiments in Political Science? (2007) (9)
Social-Ecological Systems A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of (2012) (8)
Environment and Common Property Institutions (2001) (8)
The Contribution of Community Institutions to Environmental Problem-Solving (2009) (8)
Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science: Experimental Contributions to Collective Action Theory (2011) (8)
Recognizing multiple water uses in intersectoral water transfers. (2005) (8)
The evolution of norms within institutions: comments on Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich's, ‘Population, development, and human nature’ (2002) (8)
The Working Parts of Rules and How They May Evolve Over Time (2004) (7)
Some Thoughts about Shaking Things Up: Future Directions in Political Science (2002) (7)
Sustainable Development of Common-Pool Resources (2008) (7)
Asian irrigation in transition: service orientation, institutional aspects, and design, operation, infrastructure issues. (2005) (7)
Biography of Robert Axelrod (2007) (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)
Norms and the Law: How Norms Help Reduce the Tragedy of the Commons: A Multi-Layer Framework for Analyzing Field Experiments (2006) (7)
Not just one best system: the diversity of institutions for coping with the commons. (2005) (7)
Analyzing Long-enduring, Self-organized, and Self-governed CPRs (2015) (7)
Vulnerability of Social Norms to Incomplete Information (2014) (6)
The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid: Some policy conclusions regarding the organisations involved in foreign aid (2002) (6)
Empirical Foundations for Agent-Based Modeling: How Do Institutions Affect Agents' Land-Use Decision Processes in Indiana? (2002) (6)
Engaging Impossibilities and Possibilities (2007) (6)
CONTEXT AND COLLECTIVE ACTION : FOUR INTERACTIVE BUILDING BLOCKS FOR A FAMILY OF EXPLANATORY THEORIES by Elinor Ostrom Workshop (1999) (6)
Signals, Symbols, and Human Cooperation (2017) (6)
Governing the Commons: Preface (1990) (6)
Human-ecosystems interactions: a basic dynamic integrated model (2000) (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)
Policing: Is There a System? (1979) (6)
Indigenous Communities, Cooperation, and Communication: Taking Experiments to the Field (2011) (6)
Governing the Commons: ANALYZING LONG-ENDURING, SELF-ORGANIZED, AND SELF-GOVERNED CPRs (1990) (5)
Social Capital, Self-Organisation, and Development (1996) (5)
Emerging water crisis and political economy of irrigation reforms in India. (2005) (5)
Chapter Nine. Pushing the Frontiers of the Theory of Collective Action and the Commons (2010) (5)
FARMER AND GOVERNMENT ORGANIZED IRRIGATION SYSTEMS IN NEPAL : PRELIMINARY FINDINGS FROM ANALYSIS OF 127 SYSTEMS (2009) (5)
Handeln statt Warten: Ein mehrstufiger Ansatz zur Bewältigung des Klimaproblems (2011) (5)
Social capital and irrigation management: bringing rigor and evidence to the relationship. (2005) (5)
The importance of rule enforcement to local level forest management (2003) (4)
Commons, Institutional Diversity of (2013) (4)
People's participation in irrigation management in Thailand. (2005) (4)
Macroeconomic and sectoral approaches (2002) (4)
Studying Scholarly Communication: Can Commons Research and the IAD Framework Help Illuminate Complex Dilemmas? (2004) (4)
The Evolution of Institutions: Toward a New Methodology (2009) (4)
Metropolitan Reform: An Annotated Bibliography (1980) (4)
The Institutional Perspective on Values and Virtues (2011) (4)
Grandfathering (2012) (4)
Groundwater markets and irrigation potential in South Asia: a micro study from Nepal. (2005) (4)
COVENANTS WITH AND WITHOUT A SWORD: SELF-ENFORCEMENT IS POSSIBLE by (1991) (3)
Cultures: Frameworks, Theories, and Models (2018) (3)
The future of irrigated agriculture in Asia: what the twenty-first century will require of policies, institutions, and governance. (2005) (3)
Mertonianism Unbound? Imagining Free, Decentralized Access to Most Cultural and Scientific Material (2007) (3)
Participatory approaches to irrigation development and management in the Philippines: the next generation. (2005) (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)
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)
The Future of the Commons (2012) (3)
Soziales Kapital und kollektives Handeln: Eine sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektive auf soziales Kapital (2003) (3)
Sustainable development and the tragedy of commons (2009) (3)
Farmer-managed irrigation systems in Asia: subsistence agriculture in transition. (2005) (3)
Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom (1990) (3)
The Future of Democracy (2000) (3)
Institutions and the Environment by Arild Vatn Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2005, $121.50 cloth, 496 pp. (2006) (2)
Human ecology and resource sustainability : the importance of institutional diversity : Sustainability issues (1995) (2)
Effects of Different Modes of Assistance on the Performance of Farmer-managed Irrigation Systems in Nepal (2011) (2)
The challenge of self-governance in complex, globalizing economies: Collection of revised papers of a PhD seminar (2007) (2)
1. Introduction (1994) (2)
Theory, Field, and Laboratory: The Continuing Dialogue (1997) (2)
Institutions and Sustainability of Ecological Systems (2014) (2)
Building a better micro-foundation for institutional analysis (2005) (2)
The Future of the Commons – Beyond Market Failure and Government Regulation (2012) (2)
Moving beyond water provision: strategic issues related to transition of irrigation management in Indonesia. (2005) (2)
Chapter Two. Small-N Case Studies: Putting the Commons under a Magnifying Glass (2010) (2)
VII.10 Governance and Institutions (2009) (2)
Altruistically Inclined?: The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity (review) (2003) (2)
Motives that Drive Shared Living (2019) (2)
A Framework for Analysis of Self-organizing and Self-governing CPRs (2015) (2)
The Political Economy of the European Union: An Exploration of EU Institutions and Governance from the Perspective of Polycentrism (2020) (2)
2009 Nobels: break or breakthrough for women? Interview by Jeffrey Mervis and Kate Travis. (2009) (2)
The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid: Embedding externally induced institutional reform (2002) (2)
Common Pool Administration@@@Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (1992) (2)
Chapter Three. Broadly Comparative Field-Based Research (2010) (2)
Chapter One. Overcoming Methodological Challenges (2010) (1)
Studying the Knowledge Commons (2007) (1)
Institutions against change. (2005) (1)
Updating the Theory of Collective Action and the Commons (2012) (1)
Governing the Commons: ANALYZING INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE (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)
Chapter Seven. Agent-Based Models of Collective Action (2010) (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)
Elinor Ostrom Revisiting the Commons : Local Lessons , Global Challenges (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 Comparative Study of Public Economies (2016) (1)
The study of human-ecological systems in the laboratory. (2002) (1)
Governing the Commons: A FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS OF SELF-ORGANIZING AND SELF-GOVERNING CPRs (1990) (1)
Chapter Four. Meta-Analysis: Getting the Big Picture through Synthesis (2010) (1)
A Note for the First Newsletter of the APSA Experimental Section (1)
Response to Comments by Anthony Scott and Gary Libecap (1990) (1)
Disturbance , response , and persistence in self-organized forested communities : overtime analysis of five communities in Southern Indiana (2009) (1)
Designing Effective Intervention for Irrigation Management: Cases from the Indrawati Watershed in Nepal (2005) (1)
Adapting Institutions: Foreword (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)
Standing by Their Conclusion (1976) (1)
Making irrigation management pro-poor: indications of potentials from China and Vietnam. (2005) (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)
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)
Elinor Ostrom Prize (2013) (0)
People and Trees: An Institutional Analysis (2010) (0)
Foreword (2010) (0)
Erratum (2018) (0)
Lab Experiments for the Study of Social-Ecological Systems Supplementary Materials (2016) (0)
Protecting the Knowledge Commons (2007) (0)
Legal and Political Conditions of Water (2016) (0)
Book Review: Municipal Output and Performance in New York City (1977) (0)
NEW INSIGHT TO INSTITUTION DESIGN : THE INTERNATIONAL EXAMPLE OF IRRIGATION SYSTEMS MANAGED BY FARMERS (2021) (0)
Governing the Commons: Notes (1990) (0)
ANALYZING INSTITUTIONAL FAILURES AND FRAGILITIES (1990) (0)
Note from the Editors (1989) (0)
Saggi Comment on Elinor Ostrom / 3 by Guglielmo Wolleb (2018) (0)
Askö 1994: Commentary by Elinor Ostrom (2010) (0)
Economic Governance: the Organization of Cooperation (2010) (0)
Vom Segen des Teilens (2015) (0)
Governing the Commons: Series editors' preface (1990) (0)
Nobelist Series Continues in New York (1998) (0)
Privatizing Public Lands . By Scott Lehmann. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 248p. $45.00. (1996) (0)
EST 603, Research Methods and Design - Handout Supplemental Readings - Systems Approaches * (2010) (0)
Appendix 9.1: A Theoretical Puzzle: Why Do Some Resource Users Self-Organize and Others Do Not? (2010) (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)
Working for a living: Poverty Alleviation through Employment Generation in the Commons of Andhra Pradesh (2010) (0)
Evaluating an Innovative Development Intervention a Decade and a Half Later (2011) (0)
Decentralization reforms and property rights: Potentials and puzzles for forest sustainability and livelihoods (2009) (0)
Foreword - Robert Yoder (2011) (0)
Chapter Ten. Learning from Multiple Methods (2010) (0)
Community-Driven Development (2001) (0)
Askö 2001: Sustainability’s Compass – Indicators of Genuine Wealth (2010) (0)
Chapter Five. Collaborative Field Studies (2010) (0)
Making infrastructure dollars work (1995) (0)
APSA Contributors (2018) (0)
Building New Knowledge Commons (2007) (0)
Chapter 9 Community-driven Development Figure (2003) (0)
part of a Special Feature on Empirical based agent-based modeling Empirically Based , Agent-based models (2006) (0)
Two enduring lessons from (2013) (0)
Research for sustainability and the European Union: from wish to will - a manifesto (2009) (0)
Chapter Eight. Building Empirically Grounded Agent-Based Models (2010) (0)
IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT FROM THE CITIZEN'S POINT OF VIEW (1974) (0)
The Comparative Study of Public Enemies (1997) (0)
Review: Seeing the Forest and the Trees (2008) (0)
Rational Lives: Norms and Values in Politics and Society. Dennis Chong (2001) (0)
Review: The Challenge of the Common Pool Resources (2019) (0)
Beyond the tragedy of the commons | Oltre la "tragedy of the commons" (2009) (0)
Information Disclosure Programs 1-20-11 (2011) (0)
Graham R. Marshall, Economics for Collaborative Environmental Management: Renegotiating the Commons, Earthscan;, London (2005) ISBN: 1844070956171, 184 pp. (2007) (0)
Public Policy Analysis. Test Edition. AAAS Study Guides on Contemporary Problems No. 3. (1975) (0)
Chapter 28. Engaging with Impossibilities and Possibilities (2008) (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)
Post-intervention Dynamics in 2008: Focusing on Two Success and Two Failure Cases (2011) (0)
Space for virtue in the economics of Kenneth J. Arrow, Amartya Sen and Elinor Ostrom * (2016) (0)
Elinor Ostrom Prize (2012) (0)
Learning from the Field (2014) (0)
Guest Editorial, part of a Special Feature on Empirical based agent-based modeling Empirically Based, Agent-based models (2006) (0)
"Collective Action and Local Development Processes": A Response to the Comments (2007) (0)
Back Matter (1994) (0)
Elinor Ostrom Nominated President-Elect (1995) (0)
The Challenge of Achieving Successful Development Interventions (2011) (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)
Governing the Commons: References (1990) (0)
Chapter Six. Experiments in the Laboratory and the Field (2010) (0)
Interview with Nobel Prize Laureates Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson (2009) (0)
Elinor Ostrom Speaks about Property Rights (2020) (0)
Nested externalities and polycentric institutions: must we wait for global solutions to climate change before taking actions at other scales? (2010) (0)
Foreword - Gilbert Levine (2011) (0)
Why macroeconomics needs experimental evidence (2021) (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)
Steadfast Loyalty (2019) (0)
Processes and Procedures of an Innovative Development Intervention Initiated in 1985 in the Middle Hills of Nepal (2011) (0)
Meanings of Rationality in Public Administration and Public Policy : An Examination of Elinor Ostrom ’ s Work (2011) (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)
Contracting and the Commons: Linking the Insights of Gary Libecap and Elinor Ostrom (2020) (0)
/ 1 . A Call for more Structure in Collective Action Theory (2018) (0)
Do institutions for collective action evolve? (2013) (0)
IS POPULATION ECOLOGY A MATURE SCIENCE? Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/Empirical Synthesis. Peter (2003) (0)
Book reviews (1991) (0)
APSA Council Minutes (1996) (0)
Competition and Cooperation: A Conversation with Several Nobelists on Economics and Political Science (1999) (0)
The availability of knowledge in digital form is changing the way some scholars view knowledge (2008) (0)
Elinor Ostrom Self-Governance and Forest Resources (1999) (0)
Indiana Law Review (2012) (0)
Staging a Career, Staging a Life: Strategies for Retirement (2005) (0)
12 Questions to … 12 Fragen an … (2006) (0)
Part II. FOCUSING ON RULES (2006) (0)
Un son para Elinor Ostrom (2015) (0)
Synthesis and Conclusion (2011) (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)
Integrating Ecology and Economics (2012) (0)
Collective Action. By Hardin Russell. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. Pp. xvi + 248. $24.00, cloth; $9.00, paper.) (1983) (0)

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