Description
Book SynopsisThe interdisciplinary chapters in this volume explore and engage the work of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom, along with the Bloomington School of political economy more generally.The book emphasizes the continuing relevance of the Ostroms’ work for our understanding of collective action, self-governance, and institutional diversity for interdisciplinary research in the social sciences and humanities. The wide array of topics and approaches will make the volume of interest to readers in a variety of fields, including: political science, economics, philosophy, sociology, public administration, environmental studies, and political economy.
Table of Contents
- Introduction – Peter Boettke, Bobbi Herzberg, Brian Kogelmann
- Two Faces of Culture in the Ostroms, Mili Kalia
- Payoffs that Pay Off: Methodological Pluralism in the Work of Elinor Ostrom, Alexander Schaefer
- Network of Cantinas from Terra do Meio, Miranda Chase
- Under Emergency Management: Community Responses to the Flint Water Crisis, Sarah Phinney
- Unbundling Post-Disaster Aid Package, Veeshan Rayamajhee
- Governing the (Banking) Commons: Polycentric Solutions to Bank Runs, Pablo Paniagua Prieto
- An Institutional Analysis of Wage Setting in the Prison Labor Industry, Joanna Carroll
- The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend: Multilevel Governance and Migration Policy, Emily VanMeter
- Ostromian Lessons for the Welfare State, Roland Fritz
- Community among State and Market: Rethinking Social Capital in Authoritarian Regimes,Wanlin Lin
- Party Organizations and Polycentric Governance: Political Party Reform, Administrative Consolidation, and Geographic Polarization in the Ostroms’ Political Science, Nicholas Jacobs
- The Political Economy of the European Union: An Exploration of EU Institutions and Governance from the Perspective of Polycentrism, Jan Vogler
