Vincent Ostrom

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Vincent Ostrom is affiliated with the following schools: Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University, University of Wyoming, University of Oregon, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles City College

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Vincent Ostrom

Political Science

#239

World Rank

#342

Historical Rank

#149

USA Rank

Public Administration

World Rank

#10

Historical Rank

USA Rank

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Political Science

Vincent Ostrom's Degrees

Bachelors Political Science University of Wyoming

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According to Wikipedia, Vincent Alfred Ostrom was an American political economist and the Founding Director of the Ostrom Workshop based at Indiana University and the Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of Political Science. He and his wife, the political economist Elinor Ostrom, made numerous contributions to the field of political science, political economy, and public choice.

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Vincent Ostrom's Published Works

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Published Works

The Organization of Government in Metropolitan Areas: A Theoretical Inquiry (1961) (1746)
The intellectual crisis in American public administration (1973) (632)
CONSUMERS AS COPRODUCERS OF PUBLIC SERVICES: SOME ECONOMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS (1981) (568)
Public Choice: A Different Approach to the Study Of Public Administration (1971) (406)
The Failure Of The Centralized State: Institutions And Self-governance In Africa (1990) (349)
The Meaning of Democracy and the Vulnerabilities of Democracies: A Response to Tocqueville's Challenge (1991) (303)
Public Goods and Public Choices (2019) (290)
The Political Theory of a Compound Republic: Designing the American Experiment (1988) (246)
The Meaning of American Federalism: Constituting a Self-Governing Society (1994) (231)
Artisanship and Artifact (1980) (173)
Understanding Urban Government: Metropolitan Reform Reconsidered (1973) (152)
Rethinking Institutional Analysis and Development: Issues, Alternatives, and Choices (1993) (122)
Local government in the United States (1988) (110)
Guidance, control, and evaluation in the public sector : the Bielefeld interdisciplinary project (1986) (109)
The Quest for Meaning in Public Choice (2004) (90)
The political theory of a compound republic : a reconstruction of the logical foundations of American democracy as presented in the Federalist (1971) (87)
A Behavioral Approach to the Study of Intergovernmental Relations (1965) (84)
Epistemic choice and public choice (1993) (56)
CAN FEDERALISM MAKE A DIFFERENCE (1973) (53)
Confronting Public Sector Complexity@@@Guidance, Control, and Evaluation in the Public Sector (1988) (44)
The Water Economy and Its Organization (1962) (43)
Legal and Political Conditions of Water Resource Development (1972) (36)
Water & politics : a study of water policies and administration in the development of Los Angeles (1954) (34)
The Meaning of Federalism in The Federalist: A Critical Examiniation of the Diamond Theses (1985) (31)
John R. Commons’s Foundations for Policy Analysis (1976) (27)
Comparing urban service delivery systems : structure and performance (1977) (26)
Choice, Rules and Collective Action: The Ostroms on the Study of Institutions and Governance (2014) (25)
Some Problems in Doing Political Theory: A Response to Golembiewski's “Critique” (1977) (25)
Public Choice Theory: A New Approach to Institutional Economics (1975) (24)
Citizen-Sovereigns: The Source of Contestability, the Rule of Law, and the Conduct of Public Entrepreneurship (2006) (22)
Faustian bargains (1996) (22)
State Administration of Natural Resources in the West (1953) (20)
Comments on Vincent Ostrom's paper (1976) (19)
Operational federalism: Organization for the provision of public services in the American federal system (1969) (15)
Problems of Cognition as a Challenge to Policy Analysts and Democratic Societies (1990) (15)
Dewey and Federalism: So Near and Yet So Far (1979) (15)
Multiorganizational Arrangements in the Governance of Unitary and Federal Political Systems (1985) (15)
Hobbes, Covenant, and Constitution (1980) (14)
The Quest to Understand Human Affairs: Natural Resources Policy and Essays on Community and Collective Choice (2010) (12)
29 Some Developments in the Study of Market Choice, Public Choice, and Institutional Choice (2006) (12)
Editorial Comment: Developments in the "No-Name" Fields of Public Administration (1964) (11)
The Contemporary Debate over Centralization and Decentralization (1976) (11)
The American experiment in constitutional choice (1976) (10)
The Political Structure of a Small Community (1956) (8)
Nonhierarchical Approaches to the Organization of Public Activity (1983) (8)
Buchanan and the Constitutional Bases of Political Decision Making (1987) (7)
Where to Begin (1995) (7)
The Struggle to Constitute and Sustain Productive Orders: Vincent Ostrom's Quest to Understand Human Affairs (2008) (7)
LANGUAGE, THEORY AND EMPIRICAL RESEARCH IN POLICY ANALYSIS* (1975) (6)
THEORY OF PUBLIC POLICY (1972) (6)
The Failure Of The Centralized State (2019) (6)
Courts and Collectivities (1990) (5)
The Meaning of Value Terms (1984) (5)
HUMAN FALLIBILITY, POLITICAL THEORY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT (1973) (5)
The American Contribution to a Theory of Constitutional Choice (1976) (4)
7. Constitutional Considerations with Particular Reference to Federal Systems (1991) (4)
Experience, theory and design (1986) (4)
Rethinking social policy, race, poverty, and the underclass : Christopher Jencks, Rethinking Social Policy, Race, Poverty, and the Underclass. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1992, 275pp (1992) (4)
The Institutional Perspective on Values and Virtues (2011) (4)
The Study of Federalism at Work (1974) (4)
Tools for Decision-Making in Resource Planning@@@Efficiency in Government Through Systems Analysis-With Emphasis on Water Resource Development@@@Water Resource Development: The Economics of Project Evaluation@@@Multiple Purpose River Development: Studies in Applied Economic Analysis@@@Perspectives o (1959) (4)
Defensible Space: Crime Prevention Through Urban Design. By Newman Oscar. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1972. Pp. 264. $8.95.) (1975) (4)
Editorial: Planning and Un-Planning (1965) (3)
Cultures: Frameworks, Theories, and Models (2018) (3)
Making Federalism Work: A Study of Program Coordination at the Community Level. By James L. Sundquist with the collaboration of David W. Davis. (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1969. Pp. ix, 293. $6.95.) (1974) (3)
The Social Scientist and the Control and Development of Natural Resources (1953) (3)
If Men Were Angels: James Madison and the Heartless Empire of Reason. By Richard K. Matthews. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 1995. 320p. $25.00. (1995) (3)
Government and Water: A Study of the Influence of Water upon Governmental Institutions and Practices in the Development of Los Angeles (1950) (3)
Buchanan’s opening to constitutional choice and meta-levels of analysis (2012) (3)
The Politics of California: A Book of Readings (1952) (2)
Historical Circumstances and Theoritical Structures as Sources of Meaning: A Response (1985) (2)
An Inquiry Concerning Liberty and Equality in the American Constitutional System (1990) (2)
The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration, by Vincent Ostrom. University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1973. Pp. xiii, 159. Cloth $6.00; paper $2.75 (1973) (2)
Competition, Monopoly, and the Organization of Government in Metropolitan Areas: Comment (1975) (2)
"Maintenance" and "Task" as Central Challenges in Public Administration@@@The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration@@@The Limits of Organizational Change (1974) (1)
The Logic of the Law (1972) (1)
Organizational Rationality, Congressional Oversight, and Decentralization: An Exchange (1978) (1)
Editorial Comment: The American Public Enterprise System (1964) (1)
The Third Century: Some Anticipated Consequences of Governmental Reorganization (1978) (1)
Alternative Approaches to the Organization of Public Proprietary Interests (2019) (1)
Editorial Comment: On the Frontiers of the Great Society (1965) (1)
The Undisciplinary Discipline of Public Administration: A Response to Stillman's Critique (1977) (1)
Politička teorija složene republike (1989) (1)
21. Votes and Vetoes (1991) (1)
The challenge of the quest for excellence (1996) (1)
Decentralization: Achieving Reform.@@@Understanding Urban Government: Metropolitan Reform Reconsidered. (1975) (1)
Prediction and Planning: Some Problems in the Study of Political Behavior (1961) (1)
Knowledge, Science, and Policy (1961) (0)
Ostrom on Constitutional Fundamentals (1989) (0)
Editorial Comment: Professional Competence in the Public Service (1964) (0)
Daniel Elazar: A Reflection (2000) (0)
Editorial Comment: Symmetry and Conflict (1964) (0)
Legal and Political Conditions of Water (2016) (0)
In Memoriam William H. Riker (1921–1993) (1993) (0)
Editorial Comment: A Moment's Pause (1965) (0)
The Catron-Harmon "Conspiracy" (1982) (0)
Editorial: Whence? Whither? (1966) (0)
Education and Politics (1961) (0)
Editorial Comment: Brushfire Administration (1965) (0)
Editorial Comment: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (1963) (0)
Book Reviews and Notices : The Initiative and Referendum in California. By WINSTON W. CROUCH. (Los Angeles: The Haynes Foundation. 1950. Pp. 56. 50c.) (1951) (0)
The Political Dimension Of Regional Analysis (2005) (0)
Buchanan’s opening to constitutional choice and meta-levels of analysis (2012) (0)
The Ideology of Form: The Influence of Organizations in America . By Schuman David. (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, D.C. Heath, 1978. Pp. x + 196. $17.95.) (1980) (0)
Confronting Public Sector Complexity (2016) (0)
100th APSA Annual Meeting Attendees Offer Evaluations and Suggestions (2005) (0)

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