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Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy - Polycentricity in Public Administration and Political Science (Paperback)
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Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy - Polycentricity in Public Administration and Political Science (Paperback)
Series: Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy
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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 1 explores the roles played by the concept polycentricity in
the disciplines of public administration, political science, and
other forms of political economy. Polycentricity denotes a complex
system of governance in which public authorities, citizens, and
private organizations work together to establish and enforce the
rules that guide their behavior. It encapsulates an approach toward
policy analysis that blurs standard disciplinary boundaries between
the social sciences. Throughout their long and remarkably
productive careers, Elinor and Vincent Ostrom never tired of
reminding us of the capacity of ordinary humans to transcend their
own limitations by engaging with others in the myriad forms of
collective action required to build and sustain a self-governing
society. Their careers stand as exemplars of the proper
relationship between rigorous scholarship and responsible
citizenship.
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