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Developing a Method for Analyzing Institutional Change

Author : Elinor Ostrom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Developing a Method for Analyzing Institutional Change written by Elinor Ostrom and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stimuli for writing this paper come from multiple sources. First, both Allan Schmid (2004) and Douglass North (2005) have urged social scientists to move beyond the static and mechanistic analysis of much of contemporary political economy and game theory that focuses on a given situation and derives predictions regarding likely outcomes. Our tools, however, are most powerfully developed for the analysis of unchanging worlds. The world, however, is always changing. The next important step for social science is developing a cluster of tools for analyzing dynamic situations - particularly institutional change. Fortunately, in chapter 13 of Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics, Schmid has initiated a major effort to introduce approaches that can be used in the analysis of institutional change. Among the approaches he identifies is one that examines the three processes of "Social Learning, Evolution, and Emergence." This paper is an effort to examine these processes in the context of an analysis of irrigation institutions. I focus on the processes of institutional change in relation to irrigations institutions as I do not think we can develop a general theory of institutional change until we understand the processes of change in multiple specific settings. Hopefully, the lessons learned from specific settings can be integrated into a more general theory as we progress to understand specific types of situations.

Understanding Institutional Diversity

Author : Elinor Ostrom
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400831733
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Institutional Diversity written by Elinor Ostrom and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-13 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development

Author : Paul Dragos Aligica
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135968535
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development written by Paul Dragos Aligica and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development demonstrates the importance of one of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics winners Elinor Ostrom's research program. The Bloomington School has become one of the most dynamic, well recognized and productive centers of the New Institutional Theory movement. Its ascendancy is considered to be the result of a unique and extremely successful combination of interdisciplinary theoretical approaches and hard-nosed empiricism. This book demonstrates that the well-known interdisciplinary and empirical agenda of the Bloomington Research Program is the result of a less-known but very bold proposition: an attempt to revitalize and extend into the new millennium a traditional mode of analysis illustrated by authors like Locke, Montesquieu, Hume, Adam Smith, Hamilton, Madison and Tocqueville. As such, the School tries to synthesize the traditional perspectives with the contemporary developments in social sciences and thus to re-ignite the old approach in the new intellectual and political context of the twentieth century. The book presents an outline and a systematic analysis of the vision behind the Bloomington Research Program in Institutional Analysis and Development, explaining its basic assumptions and its main themes as well as the foundational philosophy that frames its research questions and theoretical and methodological approaches. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of social science, especially those in the fields of economics, political sciences, sociology and public administration.

Explaining Institutional Change

Author : James Mahoney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521118832
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Explaining Institutional Change written by James Mahoney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book contribute to emerging debates in political science and sociology on institutional change, providing a theoretical framework and empirical applications.

Alternative Institutional Structures

Author : Sandra Batie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135974918
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Institutional Structures written by Sandra Batie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the outcome of a workshop at Michigan State University on the career of A. Allan Schmid offering a collection of original essays that explore several approaches to understanding the impact of alternative legal-economic institutions.

Rethinking Institutional Analysis and Development

Author : Vincent Ostrom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Institutional Analysis and Development written by Vincent Ostrom and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Governing the Commons

Author : Elinor Ostrom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107569788
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Governing the Commons written by Elinor Ostrom and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackles one of the most enduring and contentious issues of positive political economy: common pool resource management.

The Evolution of Institutions

Author : Elinor Ostrom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Institutions written by Elinor Ostrom and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most powerful social science analytical tools are well suited for studying static situations. Static and mechanistic analysis however, is not adequate to understand the changing world in which we live. In order to adequately address the most pressing social and environmental challenges looming ahead, we need to develop analytical tools for analyzing dynamic situations - particularly institutional change. In this paper we develop an analytical tool to study institutional change, more specifically the evolution of rules and norms. We believe that in order for such an analytical tool to be useful to develop a general theory of institutional change, it needs to enable the analyst to understand the processes of change in multiple specific settings so that lessons from such settings can eventually be integrated into a more general predictive theory of change.

Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy

Author : Daniel H. Cole
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739191098
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy written by Daniel H. Cole and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 2 examines the most well-known part of Lin’s legacy: her empirical, analytical, and theoretical work demonstrating that, in many cases, local resource users can solve collective-action problems through common-property management regimes. The volume comprises various papers relating to and building on the findings of her masterpiece, Governing the Commons (1990), including some lesser-known papers. Part I focuses on the all-important distinction between biophysical resources and the humanly devised institutions designed to govern them. Part II moves to the policy level, addressing how various sets of humanly devised institutions work better or worse, in various social and ecological circumstances, for the long-run sustainability of biophysical resources. Part III takes us full circle back to Ostrom’s first work (as part of her PhD) on water resources in Southern California, which was a topic she returned to, along with her students, throughout her career (and totaling more than 50 years’ worth of studies), with the specific intention of gathering data for dynamic (or, at least, comparative static) longitudinal analyses of combined social (including institutional) and ecological change. In sum, this volume presents what is, at least at present, thought to be Lin’s greatest legacy to social science: how resources can be sustainably managed over very long periods of time by the collective action of ordinary people, in addition to or without markets and states.

Empirical Studies in Institutional Change

Author : Lee J. Alston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521557436
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Empirical Studies in Institutional Change written by Lee J. Alston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-28 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empirical Studies in Institutional Change is a collection of nine empirical studies by fourteen scholars. Dealing with issues ranging from the evolution of secure markets in seventeenth-century England to the origins of property rights in airport slots in modern America, the contributors analyse institutions and institutional change in various parts of the world and at various periods of time. The volume is a contribution to the new economics of institutions, which emphasises the role of transaction costs and property rights in shaping incentives and results in the economic arena. To make the papers accessible to a wide audience, including students of economics and other social sciences, the editors have written an introduction to each study and added three theoretical essays to the volume, including Douglass North's Nobel Prize address, which reflect their collective views as to the present status of institutional analysis and where it is headed.

Tools for Institutional, Political, and Social Analysis of Policy Reform

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Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821368915
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Tools for Institutional, Political, and Social Analysis of Policy Reform written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Analysis of the distributional impact of policy reforms plays an important role in the elaboration and implementation of poverty reduction strategies in developing and transitional countries, promoting evidence-based policy choices and fostering debate on policy reform options. International agencies and national partners are increasingly encouraging a more systematic application of policy reform analysis. Requisite to a systematic application is capacity building within countries as well as within donor agencies." "Tools for Institutional, Political, and Social Analysis of Policy Reform: A Sourcebook for Development Practitioners contributes to this agenda by introducing a framework and a set of practical tools that analyze the institutional, political, and social dimensions of policy design and implementation. The authors fill a perceived gap in knowledge of the application of social tools and complement existing guidance on conventional economic analysis of distributional impacts of reform." "This book will be of interest to commissioners and practitioners working in policy analysis in a range of areas - including macroeconomic, sectoral, and public sector policy - that are subject to ongoing policy reform discussions."--BOOK JACKET.

Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

Author : Douglass C. North
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521397346
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (973 download)

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Book Synopsis Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance by : Douglass C. North

Download or read book Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance written by Douglass C. North and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies is developed in this analysis of economic structures.

Explaining Institutional Change

Author : James Mahoney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139483986
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Explaining Institutional Change written by James Mahoney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to emerging debates in political science and sociology on institutional change. Its introductory essay proposes a new framework for analyzing incremental change that is grounded in a power-distributional view of institutions and that emphasizes ongoing struggles within but also over prevailing institutional arrangements. Five empirical essays then bring the general theory to life by evaluating its causal propositions in the context of sustained analyses of specific instances of incremental change. These essays range widely across substantive topics and across times and places, including cases from the United States, Africa, Latin America, and Asia. The book closes with a chapter reflecting on the possibilities for productive exchange in the analysis of change among scholars associated with different theoretical approaches to institutions.

Building the Virtual State

Author : Jane E. Fountain
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780815798903
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book Building the Virtual State written by Jane E. Fountain and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-05-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The benefits of using technology to remake government seem almost infinite. The promise of such programs as user-friendly "virtual agencies" and portals where citizens can access all sections of government from a single website has excited international attention. The potential of a digital state cannot be realized, however, unless the rigid structures of the contemporary bureaucratic state change along with the times. Building the Virtual State explains how the American public sector must evolve and adapt to exploit the possibilities of digital governance fully and fairly. The book finds that many issues involved in integrating technology and government have not been adequately debated or even recognized. Drawing from a rich collection of case studies, the book argues that the real challenges lie not in achieving the technical capability of creating a government on the web, but rather in overcoming the entrenched organizational and political divisions within the state. Questions such as who pays for new government websites, which agencies will maintain the sites, and who will ensure that the privacy of citizens is respected reveal the extraordinary obstacles that confront efforts to create a virtual state. These political and structural battles will influence not only how the American state will be remade in the Information Age, but also who will be the winners and losers in a digital society.

Institutional Change

Author : William E. Halal
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845441575
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Institutional Change written by William E. Halal and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Institutional Diversity and Political Economy

Author : Paul Dragos Aligica
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199843902
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Institutional Diversity and Political Economy written by Paul Dragos Aligica and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses some of the most challenging ideas emerging out of the research program on institutional diversity associated with the 2009 co-recipient of 2009 Nobel Prize in economics, Elinor Ostrom, while outlining a set of new research directions and an original interpretation of the significance and future of this program.

Capitalist Alternatives

Author : Paul Dragos Aligica
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317654722
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Capitalist Alternatives written by Paul Dragos Aligica and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book's objective is to explore the challenge of thinking methodically - in a theoretically and empirically informed way - about alternative forms of capitalism. What are the most effective ways to conceptualize the existing models of capitalism that have captured the public imagination and are currently floating around in the public debate? How can one mobilize empirical analysis and theory in thinking about the realm of possibilities and about the future of economic order, but avoid the twin perils of scientism and historicism? This book is an attempt to respond to these and related challenges. First, it delves into the substantive aspect of the debate, taking a closer look at a set of particular forms and models of capitalism that are currently discussed both in mass media and in academic circles as plausible, or at least possible, alternatives to the status quo: Crony, State, Regulatory, and Entrepreneurial Capitalisms. By elaborating and clarifying those models, it engages in a heuristic exercise that leads to a better understanding of the task of conceptualizing and assessing, in a theoretically informed way, the diversity of forms of capitalism. Second, the book takes a step further, looking at the epistemic, theoretical and methodological dimensions of the discussion: What is involved, more precisely, in our classifying and theorizing of capitalist systems and their historical evolution? What is the epistemic basis for building plausible conjectures about the future evolution of an economic system? What are the logical and methodological parameters of our endeavors that deal with economic systems, or with the problem of continuity and change in comparative economic systems? Offering an original approach to the problem of alternative forms of capitalism, this book will be of great interest to scholars working in the field of comparative political economy.