Choice, rules and collective action: the Ostroms on the study of institutions and governance
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Choice, rules and collective action: the Ostroms on the study of institutions and governance
（ECPR Press essays）
ECPR Press, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This volume brings a set of key works by Elinor Ostrom, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, together with those of Vincent Ostrom, one of the originators of Public Choice political economy. The two scholars introduce and expound their approaches and analytical perspectives on the study of institutions and governance. The book puts together works representing the main analytical and conceptual vehicles articulated by the Ostroms to create the Bloomington School of public choice and institutional theory. Their endeavours sought to 're-establish the priority of theory over data collection and analysis', and to better integrate theory and practice. These efforts are illustrated via selected texts, organised around three themes: the political economy and public choice roots of their work in creating a distinct branch of political economy; the evolutionary nature of their work that led them to go beyond mainstream public choice, thereby enriching the public choice tradition itself; and, finally, the foundational and epistemological dimensions and implications of their work
Table of Contents
Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Acknowledgements ix
Foreword by Dario Castiglione xi
Elinor and Vincent Ostrom and the Workshop xix
Introduction: The Ostroms' Research Program for the Study of
Institutions and Governance: Theoretical and Epistemic Foundations 1
Paul Dragos Aligica and Filippo Sabetti
Part One: Public Choice and Political Economy
Chapter One: Public Choice: A Different Approach to the Study
of Public Administration 23
Vincent Ostrom and Elinor Ostrom
Chapter Two: Polycentricity: The Structural Basis of Self-Governing
Systems 45
Vincent Ostrom
Chapter Three: The Quest for Meaning in Public Choice 61
Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom
Part Two: Beyond Public Choice: Institutions, Rules and
Governance Systems
Chapter Four: An Agenda for the Study of Institutions 97
Elinor Ostrom
Chapter Five: A Behavioural Approach to the Rational Choice
Theory of Collective Action 121
Elinor Ostrom
Chapter Six: Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance
of Complex Economic Systems 167
Elinor Ostrom
Part Three: Epistemic and Social Philosophical Perspectives
Chapter Seven: Beyond Positivism 213
Elinor Ostrom
Chapter Eight: A Conceptual-Computational Logic for Federal
Systems of Governance 227
Vincent Ostrom
Chapter Nine: Epistemic Choice and Public Choice 243
Vincent Ostrom
Index 271
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