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Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy

Resource Governance

von: Daniel H. Cole, Michael D. McGinnis, Gwen Arnold, William Blomquist, Michael Cox, Roy Gardner, Elinor Ostrom, Vincent Ostrom, Edella Schlager, Sergio Villamayor-Tomas
139,99 €
Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	04.09.2015
ISBN/EAN:	9780739191095
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	444

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Titelbeschreibung

Elinor (Lin) Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her pathbreaking research on "economic governance, especially the commons"; but she also made important contributions to several other fields of political economy and public policy. The range of topics she covered and the multiple methods she used might convey the mistaken impression that her body of work is disjointed and incoherent. This four-volume compendium of papers written by Lin, alone or with various coauthors (most notably including her husband and partner, Vincent), supplemented by others expanding on their work, brings together the common strands of research that serve to tie her impressive oeuvre together. That oeuvre, together with Vincent's own impressive body of work, has come to define a distinctive school of political-economic thought, the "Bloomington School."
 

 
Each of the four volumes is organized around a central theme of Lin’s work. Volume 2 examines the most well-known part of Lin’s legacy: her empirical, analytical, and theoretical work demonstrating that, in many cases, local resource users can solve collective-action problems through common-property management regimes. The volume comprises various papers relating to and building on the findings of her masterpiece, Governing the Commons (1990), including some lesser-known papers. Part I focuses on the all-important distinction between biophysical resources and the humanly devised institutions designed to govern them. Part II moves to the policy level, addressing how various sets of humanly devised institutions work better or worse, in various social and ecological circumstances, for the long-run sustainability of biophysical resources. Part III takes us full circle back to Ostrom’s first work (as part of her PhD) on water resources in Southern California, which was a topic she returned to, along with her students, throughout her career (and totaling more than 50 years’ worth of studies), with the specific intention of gathering data for dynamic (or, at least, comparative static) longitudinal analyses of combined social (including institutional) and ecological change. In sum, this volume presents what is, at least at present, thought to be Lin’s greatest legacy to social science: how resources can be sustainably managed over very long periods of time by the collective action of ordinary people, in addition to or without markets and states.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy is a comprehensive collection, in four volumes, of the most important contributions by Ostrom and her colleagues on central issues. This second volume presents Ostrom’s best-known legacy, her work on resource governance and the maintenance of resources through collective action.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Public Goods and Public Choices
 
Vincent Ostrom and Elinor Ostrom
 
2. An Agenda for the Study of Institutions
 
Elinor Ostrom
 
3. How Types of Goods and Property Rights Jointly Affect Collective Action
 
Elinor Ostrom
 
4. Property-Rights Regimes and Natural Resources: A Conceptual Analysis
 
Edella Schlager and Elinor Ostrom
 
5. The Variety of Property Systems and Rights in Natural Resources
 
Daniel H. Cole and Elinor Ostrom
 
6. Reformulating the Commons
 
Elinor Ostrom
 
7. Coping with Asymmetries in the Commons: Self-Governing Irrigation Systems Can Work
 
Elinor Ostrom and Roy Gardner
 
8. Design Principles of Robust Property Rights Institutions: What Have We Learned?
 
Elinor Ostrom
 
9. A Review of Design Principles for Community-Based Natural Resource Management
 
Michael Cox, Gwen Arnold, and Sergio Villamayor-Tomas
 
10. Developing a Method for Analyzing Institutional Change
 
Elinor Ostrom
 
11. The Water Economy and its Organization
 
Vincent Ostrom
 
12. Conditions of Legal and Political Feasibility
 
Vincent Ostrom and Elinor Ostrom
 
13. Deliberation, Learning, and Institutional Change: The Evolution of Institutions in Judicial Settings
 
William Blomquist and Elinor Ostrom
 
14. Reflections on “Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation”
 
Elinor Ostrom

Autorenportrait

Daniel H. Cole is professor of law and professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University Bloomington, where he also serves on the affiliated faculty of the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.
 

 
Michael D. McGinnis is professor of political science at Indiana University Bloomington. He is a senior research fellow (and former director) of the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.