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Elinor Ostrom: A Career in Institutional Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Michael McGinnis
Michael McGinnis*
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Indiana University
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , December 1996 , pp. 737 - 741
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References

Selected Publications

Becker, C. Dustin, and Ostrom, Elinor. 1995. “Human Ecology and Resource Sustainability: The Importance of Institutional Diversity,” Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 26:113–133.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Davis, Gina, and Ostrom, Elinor. 1991. “A Public Economy Approach to Education: Choice and Co-Production,” International Political Science Review, 12:313–335.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gardner, Roy, and Ostrom, Elinor. 1990. “Rules and Games,” Public Choice, 70:121–149.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gardner, Roy, Ostrom, Elinor, and Walker, James. 1990. “The Nature of Common-Pool Resource Problems,” Rationality and Society, 2:335–358.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gardner, Roy, Ostrom, Elinor, and Walker, James. 1994. “Social Capital and Cooperation: Communication, Bounded Rationality and Behavioral Heuristics.” In Social Dilemmas and Cooperation, eds. Schulz, Ulrich, Albers, Wulf, and Mueller, Ulrich, 375–41. Berlin: Springer-Werlag.Google Scholar
Keohane, Robert O., and Ostrom, Elinor, eds. 1995. Local Commons and Global Interdependence: Heterogeneity and Cooperation in Two Domains, London: Sage.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kiser, Larry L. and Ostrom, Elinor. 1982. “The Three Worlds of Action: A Meta-theoretical Synthesis of Institutional Approaches.” In Strategies of Political Inquiry, ed. Ostrom, Elinor, 179–222. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.Google Scholar
McGinnis, Michael, and Ostrom, Elinor. 1996. “Design Principles for Local and Global Commons.” In The International Political Economy and International Institutions, ed. Young, Oran, Vol. II, pp. 464–493. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.Google Scholar
McIver, John P., and Ostrom, Elinor. 1976. “Using Budget Pies to Reveal Preferences: Validation of a Survey Instrument,” Policy and Politics, 4:87–110.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Ostrom, Elinor. 1971. “Institutional Arrangements and the Measurement of Policy Consequences in Urban Areas,” Urban Affairs Quarterly, 6:447–476.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ostrom, Elinor. 1972. “Metropolitan Reform: Propositions Derived from Two Traditions,” Social Science Quarterly, 53:474–493 Google Scholar
Ostrom, Elinor. 1973. “The Need for Multiple Indicators in Measuring the Output of Public Agencies,” Policy Studies Journal, 2:85–92.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ostrom, Elinor. 1975. “On Righteousness, Evidence, and Reform: The Police Story,” Urban Affairs Quarterly, 10:464–486.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Ostrom, Elinor. 1976. “Size and Performance in a Federal System,” Publius, 6:33–73.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Ostrom, Elinor. 1983. “A Public Choice Approach to Metropolitan Institutions: Structure, Incentives, and Performance,” Social Science Journal, 20 (3):79–96.Google Scholar
Ostrom, Elinor. 1983. “The Social Stratification-Government Inequality Thesis Explored,” Urban Affairs Quarterly, 19:91–112.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ostrom, Elinor. 1986. “An Agenda for the Study of Institutions,” Public Choice, 48:3–25.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ostrom, Elinor. 1986. “A Method of Institutional Analysis.” In Guidance, Control, and Evaluation in the Public Sector, eds. Kaufmann, F. X., Majone, G., and Ostrom, V., 495–510. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter.Google Scholar
Ostrom, Elinor. 1989. “Micro-Constitutional Change in a Multi-Constitutional Political System,” Rationality and Society, 1:11–50.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ostrom, Elinor. 1990. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ostrom, Elinor. 1992. Crafting Institutions for Self-Governing Irrigation Systems, San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies Press.Google Scholar
Ostrom, Elinor. 1992. “Policy Analysis of Collective Action and Self-Governance.” In Advances in Policy Studies Since 1950, eds. Dunn, William N. and Kelly, Rita Mae, Policy Studies Review Annual, 10:81–119.Google Scholar
Ostrom, Elinor. 1995. “Designing Complexity to Govern Complexity.” In Property Rights and the Environment: Social and Ecological Issues, eds. Hanna, S. and Munasinghe, M., 33–45. Washington, DC: The Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics and the World Bank.Google Scholar
Ostrom, Elinor. 1995. “Self-Organization and Social Capital,” Industrial and Corporate Change, 4:131–159.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Ostrom, Elinor, and Gardner, Roy. 1993. “Coping With Asymmetries in the Commons: Self-Governing Irrigation Systems Can Work,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 7:93–112.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ostrom, Elinor, Gardner, Roy, and Walker, James, with Agrawal, Arun, Blomquist, William, Schlager, Edella, and Tang, Shui Yan. 1994. Rules, Games, and Pool Resources, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ostrom, Elinor, Lam, Wai Fung, and Lee, Myungsuk. 1994. “The Performance of Self-Governing Irrigation Systems in Nepal,” Human Systems Management, 13:197–207.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ostrom, Elinor, Parks, Roger B., and Whitaker, Gordon P. 1977. Policing Metropolitan America, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.Google Scholar
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Ostrom, Elinor, Schroeder, Larry, and Wynne, Susan. 1993. Institutional Incentives and Sustainable Development: Infrastructure Policies in Perspective, Boulder, CO: Westview.Google Scholar
Ostrom, Elinor, and Walker, James. 1991. “Communication in a Commons: Cooperation without External Enforcement.” In Laboratory Research in Political Economy, ed. Palfrey, Thomas R., 287–322. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.Google Scholar
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Ostrom, Vincent, and Ostrom, Elinor. 1977. “Public Goods and Public Choices,” In Alternatives for Delivering Public Services: Toward Improved Performance, ed. Savas, E.S., 7–49. Boulder, CO: Westview.Google Scholar
Ostrom, Vincent, and Ostrom, Elinor. 1977. “A Theory for Institutional Analysis of Common Pool Problems.” In Managing the Commons, eds. Hardin, G. and Baden, J., 157–172. San Francisco: Freeman.Google Scholar
Ostrom, Vincent, Bish, Robert, and Ostrom, Elinor. 1988. Local Government in the United States, San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies Press.Google Scholar
Schlager, Edella, and Ostrom, Elinor. 1992. “Property-Rights Regimes and Natural Resources: A Conceptual Analysis,” Land Economics, 68:249–262.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Weissing, Franz, and Ostrom, Elinor. 1991. “Irrigation Institutions and the Games Irrigators Play: Rule Enforcement without Guards.” In Game Equilibrium Models II: Methods, Morals, and Markets, ed. Selten, Reinhard, 188–262. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Weissing, Franz, and Ostrom, Elinor. 1993. “‘Irrigation Institutions and the Games Irrigators Play: Rules Enforcement in Government- and Farmer-Managed Systems,’ In Games in Hierarchies and Networks: Analytical and Empirical Approaches to the Study of Governance Institutions,” ed. Scharpf, Fritz W., 387–428. Boulder: Westview.Google Scholar
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