Elinor Ostrom

(Deceased since 2012-06-12)

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• On the meaning and measurement of output and efficiency in the provision of urban police services
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• The power and limitations of proportional cutbacks in common-pool resources
  by Gardner, Roy & Herr, Andrew & Ostrom, Elinor & Walker, James A.
• Ostrom and Ostrom on the Quest for Meaning in Public Choice
  by Elinor Ostrom & Vincent Ostrom
• ¿Qué traen las personas al juego? Experimentos de campo sobre la cooperación en los recursos de uso común
  by Cárdenas Juan Camilo & Elinor Ostrom
• Response to Zakir Husain and Rabindra Bhattacharya's "Common pool resources and contextual factors: Evolution of a fishermen's cooperative in Calcutta"
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• Playing safe in coordination games:: the roles of risk dominance, payoff dominance, and history of play
  by Schmidt, David & Shupp, Robert & Walker, James M. & Ostrom, Elinor
• The Working Parts of Rules and How They May Evolve Over Time
  by Elinor Ostrom
• Rent dissipation in a limited-access common-pool resource: Experimental evidence
  by Walker, James M. & Gardner, Roy & Ostrom, Elinor
• Local Enforcement and Better Forests
  by Gibson, Clark C. & Williams, John T. & Ostrom, Elinor
• 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.
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• INSTITUTIONS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
  by Elinor Ostrom
• In pursuit of comparable concepts and data about collective action:
  by Poteete, Amy & Ostrom, Elinor
• Scale misperceptions and the spatial dynamics of a social-ecological system
  by Wilson, James & Low, Bobbi & Costanza, Robert & Ostrom, Elinor
• Institutional Capacity And The Resolution Of A Commons Dilemma
  by William Blomquist & Elinor Ostrom
• Self-organization and Social Capital.
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• What do people bring into the game? Experiments in the field about cooperation in the commons
  by Cardenas, Juan-Camilo & Ostrom, Elinor
• What do people bring into the game: experiments in the field about cooperation in the commons
  by Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo & Ostrom, Elinor
• Rules and Games.
  by Gardner, Roy & Ostrom, Elinor
• In pursuit of comparable concepts and data about collective action
  by Poteete, Amy R. & Ostrom, Elinor
• Governing Social-Ecological Systems
  by Janssen, Marco A. & Ostrom, Elinor
  edited by
• Understanding collective action
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• Human-ecosystem interactions: a dynamic integrated model
  by Low, Bobbi & Costanza, Robert & Ostrom, Elinor & Wilson, James & Simon, Carl P.
• Heterogeneous Preferences and Collective Action.
  by Ahn, T. K. & Ostrom, Elinor & Walker, James M.
• Unlocking Public Entrepreneurship and Public Economies
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• Analyzing decentralized resource regimes from a polycentric perspective
  by Krister Andersson & Elinor Ostrom
• The evolution of norms within institutions: comments on Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich's, ‘Population, development, and human nature’
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• Graham R. Marshall, Economics for Collaborative Environmental Management: Renegotiating the Commons, Earthscan;, London (2005) ISBN: 1844070956171, 184 pp..
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• Fifteen Years of Empirical Research on Collective Action in Natural Resource Management: Struggling to Build Large-N Databases Based on Qualitative Research
  by Poteete, Amy R. & Ostrom, Elinor
• Trust in Private and Common Property Experiments
  by James C. Cox & Elinor Ostrom & James M. Walker & Antonio Jamie Castillo & Eric Coleman & Robert Holahan & Michael Schoon & Brian Steed
• Trust in Private and Common Property Experiments
  by James C. Cox & Elinor Ostrom & James M. Walker & Jamie Castillo & Eric Coleman & Robert Holahan & Michael Schoon & Brian Steed
• The value-added of laboratory experiments for the study of institutions and common-pool resources
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• Dilemma games: game parameters and matching protocols
  by Schmidt, David & Shupp, Robert & Walker, James & Ahn, T. K. & Ostrom, Elinor
• Challenges and growth: the development of the interdisciplinary field of institutional analysis
  by OSTROM, ELINOR
• The Contested Role of Heterogeneity in Collective Action: Some Evidence from Community Forestry in Nepal
  by Varughese, George & Ostrom, Elinor
• Crossing the great divide: Coproduction, synergy, and development
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• Coping with Asymmetries in the Commons: Self-Governing Irrigation Systems Can Work
  by Elinor Ostrom & Roy Gardner
• The concept of scale and the human dimensions of global change: a survey
  by Gibson, Clark C. & Ostrom, Elinor & Ahn, T. K.
• Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms
  by Elinor Ostrom
• Deliberation, learning, and institutional change: the evolution of institutions in judicial settings
  by William Blomquist & Elinor Ostrom
• Common-pool resources and institutions: Toward a revised theory
  by Ostrom, Elinor
  edited by
• 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
  by Ostrom, Elinor & Bentley, Arthur F.
• AN ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE ON DEMOCRATIC DILEMMAS
  by Ellnor Ostrom
• Property-Rights Regimes and Natural Resources: A Conceptual Analysis
  by Edella Schlager & Elinor Ostrom
• La reglas que no se hace cumplir son mera palabrería
  by Elinor Ostrom
• A polycentric approach for coping with climate change
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• Revising theory in light of experimental findings
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• Organizational economics: applications to metropolitan governance
  by OSTROM, ELINOR
• Beyond the tragedy of the Commons
  by Xavier Basurto & Elinor Ostrom
• Analyzing the dynamic complexity of development interventions: lessons from an irrigation experiment in Nepal
  by Wai Lam & Elinor Ostrom
• Legal and Political Conditions of Water Resource Development
  by Vincent Ostrom & Elinor Ostrom
• Unlocking Public Entrepreneurship and Public Economies
  by Elinor Ostrom
• Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems
  by Elinor Ostrom
• Interview with Nobel Prize Laureates Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson
  by Ostrom, Elinor & Williamson, Oliver
• Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• Reflections on "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation"
  by Elinor Ostrom
• Analyzing collective action
  by Elinor Ostrom
• Autobiography
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• The Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid
  by Gibson, Clark C. & Andersson, Krister & Ostrom, The late Elinor & Shivakumar, Sujai
• Bosses and Kings: Asymmetric Power in Paired Common Pool and Public Good Games
  by James C. Cox & Elinor Ostrom & James M. Walker
• A common-pool resource experiment with postgraduate subjects from 41 countries
  by Ahn, T. K. & Ostrom, Elinor & Walker, James
• Reprint of: A common-pool resource experiment with postgraduate subjects from 41 countries
  by Ahn, T. K. & Ostrom, Elinor & Walker, James
• 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
  by Sowerwine, J. & Shivakoti, G. & Pradhan, U. & Shukla, A. & Ostrom, E.
• Crafting analytical tools to study institutional change
  by OSTROM, ELINOR & BASURTO, XAVIER
• Coevolving Relationships between Political Science and Economics
  by Elinor Ostrom
• Nested externalities and polycentric institutions: must we wait for global solutions to climate change before taking actions at other scales?
  by Elinor Ostrom
• Beyond Formality and Informality
  by Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb & Kanbur, Ravi & Ostrom, Elinor
• Par-delà les marchés et les États. La gouvernance polycentrique des systèmes économiques complexes
  by Elinor Ostrom & Éloi Laurent
• Dépasser le dilemme du Samaritain dans l'aide au développement. Overcoming the Samaritan's Dilemma in Development Aid
  by Elinor Ostrom
• 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.
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• ANALYZING COLLECTIVE ACTION
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• The challenge of self-governance in complex, globalizing economies: Collection of revised papers of a PhD seminar
  by Ostrom, Elinor (Ed. ) & Schlüter, Achim (Ed. )
• What do people bring into the game? Experiments in the field about cooperation in the commons
  by Juan-Camilo Cardenas & Elinor Ostrom
• Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems (Excerpt)
  by Elinor Ostrom
• In Memoriam:
  by Elinor Ostrom & Vincent Ostrom
• A Polycentric Approach For Coping With Climate Change
  by Elinor Ostrom
• A Polycentric Approach For Coping With Climate Change
  by Elinor Ostrom
• Groundwater Irrigation in North India: Institutions and Markets
  by A. Banerji & J. V. Meenakshi & Gauri Khanna
• Provision versus Appropriation in Symmetric and Asymmetric Social Dilemmas
  by James C. Cox & Elinor Ostrom & Vjollca Sadiraj & James M. Walker
• Generalizing the core design principles for the efficacy of groups
  by Wilson, David Sloan & Ostrom, Elinor & Cox, Michael E.
• Some postulated effects of learning on constitutional behavior
  by Elinor Ostrom
• An agenda for the study of institutions
  by Elinor Ostrom
• “¿Teoría económica, ciencia política, teoría social? Lo que yo hago podría llamarse economía política o estudio de los dilemas sociales”
  by Elinor Ostrom
• Community and the Endogenous Solution of Commons Problems
  by Elinor Ostrom
• Institutions and Common-Pool Resources
  by Elinor Ostrom
• Do institutions for collective action evolve?
  by Elinor Ostrom
• 6. Constituting Social Capital and Collective Action
  by Elinor Ostrom
• A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action Presidential Address, American political Science Association, 1997
  by E. Ostrom
• Tenure alone is not sufficient: monitoring is essential
  by Elinor Ostrom & Harini Nagendra
• The Contribution of Community Institutions to Environmental Problem-Solving
  by Elinor Ostrom
  edited by
• Private and Common Property Rights
  by Elinor Ostrom & Charlotte Hess
  edited by
• Indigenous Communities, Cooperation, and Communication: Taking Experiments to the Field
  by Rucha Ghate & Suresh Ghate & Elinor Ostrom
• Design principles and the performance of farmer-managed irrigation systems in Nepal
  by Ostrom, E. & Benjamin, P.
• Use of case studies and structural coding in a relational database for storage and analysis of irrigation institutions and systems in Nepal
  by Ostrom, E. & Benjamin, P. & Shivakoti, G.
• Improving Irrigation in Asia
  by Elinor Ostrom & Wai Fung Lam & Prachanda Pradhan & Ganesh P. Shivakoti
• An institutional analysis approach: Findings from the NIIS on irrigation performance
  by Lam, W. F. & Lee, M. & Ostrom, E.
• Façonner des outils d'analyse pour étudier le changement institutionnel
  by Elinor Ostrom & Xavier Basurto & Jean-Pierre Chanteau, Trad. & Agnès Labrousse, Trad.
• The Comparative Study of Public Economies
  by Elinor Ostrom
• Cooperation in PD Games: Fear, Greed, and History of Play.
  by Ahn, T. K. & Ostrom, Elinor & Shupp, Robert & Walker, James
• How Types of Goods and Property Rights Jointly Affect Collective Action
  by Elinor Ostrom
• The Comparative Study of Public Economies
  by Elinor Ostrom
• RECIPROCITY, TRUST, AND THE SENSE OF CONTROL
  by Nahoko Hayashi & Elinor Ostrom & James Walker & Toshio Yamagishi
• TURFS in the lab: Institutional Innovation in Real-Time Dynamic Spatial Commons
  by Marco A. Janssen & Elinor Ostrom
• Façonner des outils d’analyse pour étudier le changement institutionnel
  by Ostrom, Elinor & Basurto, Xavier
• Traditions et évolutions dans l’étude des communs
  by Laerhoven, Frank van & Ostrom, Elinor
• The Nature of Common-Pool Resource Problems
  by ROY GARDNER & ELINOR OSTROM & JAMES M. WALKER
• An Agenda for the Study of Institutions
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• Collective Action, Property Rights, and Decentralization in Resource Use in India and Nepal
  by ARUN AGRAWAL & ELINOR OSTROM
• Response to Comments by Anthony Scott and Gary Libecap
  by Elinor Ostrom
• Microconstitutional Change in Multiconstitutional Political Systems
  by ELINOR OSTROM
• 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.
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action: Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, 1997
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• New Horizons in Institutional Analysis - Health Politics: Interests and Institutions in Western Europe. By Ellen M. Immergut. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 336p. $49.95. - Institutions and Social Conflict. By Jack Knight. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 234p. $59.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. - Governments at Work: Canadian Parliamentary Federalism and Its Public Policy Effects. By Mark Sproule-Jones. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. 291p. $45.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. - Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis. Edited by Sven Steinmo, Kathleen Thelen, and Frank Longstreth. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 257p. $54.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. - Do Institutions Matter? Government Capabilities in the United States and Abroad. Edited by R. Kent Weaver and Bert A. Rockman. Washington: Brookings, 1993. 498p. $36.95 cloth, $16.95 paper.
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• A Grammar of Institutions
  by Crawford, Sue E. S. & Ostrom, Elinor
• Modeling the Criminal Justice System. Edited by Stuart S. Nagel. (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1977. Pp. 319. $17.50, cloth; $7.50, paper.)
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• Covenants with and without a Sword: Self-Governance Is Possible
  by Ostrom, Elinor & Walker, James & Gardner, Roy
• Collective Action. By Russell Hardin. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. Pp. xvi + 248. $24.00, cloth; $9.00, paper.)
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• Privatizing Public Lands. By Scott Lehmann. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 248p. $45.00.
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• Rational Choice Theory and Institutional Analysis: Toward Complementarity
  by Ostrom, Elinor
• Learning from Gal Oya: Possibilities for Participatory Development and Post-Newtonian Social Science. By Norman Uphoff. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. 448p. $34.50.
  by Ostrom, Elinor

editor of:

• Linking the Formal and Informal Economy: Concepts and Policies
  edited by Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb & Kanbur, Ravi & Ostrom, The late Elinor
• Foundations of Social Capital
  edited by Elinor Ostrom & T. K. Ahn
• 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.
  edited by Sowerwine, Jennifer & Shivakoti, Ganesh & Pradhan, Ujjwal & Shukla, Ashutosh & Ostrom, Elinor