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Elinor Ostrom

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Understanding Institutional Diversity is a comprehensive book on the management of the common pool. It includes overviews of major theoretical issues and empirical studies. Anyone who is interested in how common-pool problems are or are not successfully resolved by locally devised arrangement should read it. -- Gary D. Libecap, The Independent Review

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The analysis of how institutions are formed, how they operate and change, and how they influence behavior in society has become a major subject of inquiry in politics, sociology, and economics. A leader in applying game theory to the understanding of institutional analysis, Elinor Ostrom provides in this book a coherent method for undertaking the analysis of diverse economic, political, and social institutions.

Understanding Institutional Diversity explains the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework, which enables a scholar to choose the most relevant level of interaction for a particular question. This framework examines the arena within which interactions occur, the rules employed by participants to order relationships, the attributes of a biophysical world that structures and is structured by interactions, and the attributes of a community in which a particular arena is placed.

The book explains and illustrates how to use the IAD in the context of both field and experimental studies. Concentrating primarily on the rules aspect of the IAD framework, it provides empirical evidence about the diversity of rules, the calculation process used by participants in changing rules, and the design principles that characterize robust, self-organized resource governance institutions.


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Excellent Book 22 April 2008
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I had been searching for a book on rules, their relationships to the structure of organizations, and to the outcomes produced by such organizations. The focus of this search was on commons based resources. I found what I was looking for when I found this book - it was immensely rewarding to read. At its heart is an outline of a discipline devoted to identifying what works and what doesn't work in terms of structuring organizations and the rules under which they operate. The first part of the book focusses on the use of game theory in this context. The second part of the book focusses more on the discipline of how to go about diagnosing instutional rule bases and exploring their consequences. The last part of the book provides some insight into what has been learned as a result of applying these tools - something that is well worth reading on its own. This book is essential reading for those who are concerned about human - environmental systems and interactions. Overall - a superb book.
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Finally, a framework to intelligently discuss political science and economics. 27 April 2012
By Chris Moore - Published on Amazon.com
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Most people who get politics don't get economics. And most people who get economics don't get politics. The Member of Congress and the professional economist are, with rare exception, very different creatures that inhabit very different worlds. This is the one work of social science I've seen that has the theoretical and empirical chops to bridge this gap. Ostrom does this clearly and concisely by drawing on her extensive field experience, the results of game theory lab experiments, and building a framework around adding a delta to the explicit payoffs of the prisoners' dilemma problem to represent common sense contextual factors.

Brilliant throughout, the framework and supporting empirical and theoretical material are incredibly powerful and relevant for any social scientist or policy analyst who wishes to maintain a practical orientation without sacrificing theoretical rigor.

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