Vincent Ostrom
Biographic Data
| ID | 236523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent Ostrom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent |
| FAMILY NAME | Ostrom |
| SIGNATURE | OSTROM V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 845 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Failure Of The Centralized State: Institutions and Self-Governance in Africa
This book is an outcome of the workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis, held in Indiana, during the 1985/86. It seeks to explains why the centralized African state has failed and discusses the breakdown of social processes indirectly caused by the policies of the centralized state
Failure of the Centralized State: Institutions and Self-Governance in Africa
Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy: Polycentricity in Public Administration and Political Science
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 compendiu…
In Memoriam
Harriet Fleisher Berger was a trailblazer. She was a curious thinker and a practitioner of feminism before the term became familiar in the field of political science. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1938, married, and raised two sons. After graduation, she became a researcher at the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. This was a pathway for young women at that time since many of the traditional academic pathways were often limited…
Buchanan’s opening to constitutional choice and meta-levels of analysis
The Political Theory of a Compound Republic: Designing the American Experiment
The Political Theory of a Compound Republic examines the foundation of American constitutional design expressed in theFederalist. Through meticulous textual analysis, the logical principles of federalism_the extended and compound republic envisioned by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton_are revealed as thirteen propositions broadly applicable to any effort to design the institutions of a self-governing polity. The final chapters, expanded and r…
Citizen-Sovereigns: The Source of Contestability, the Rule of Law, and the Conduct of Public Entrepreneurship
It was my good fortune to have known John Gaus and to have attended a lecture course and participated in a seminar that he offered in 1949. His Alabama lectures entitled Reflections on Public Administration, published in 1947, included such titles as “The Ecology of Government” and “Politics and Administration.” His concluding chapter, written after the initial presentations, was entitled “A Theory of the Process of Government.” Gaus was broadly …
The Quest for Meaning in Public Choice
The logical foundations of constitutional government are of basic importance if people are to be self-governing. All forms of political order are Faustian bargains subject to numerous risks. If constitutional choice applies to all patterns of human association, the complexity of associated relationships and the potential threats to the viability of associated relationships in the aggregate exceed the limits of human cognition. The development of …
Daniel Elazar: A Reflection
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Section News
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Pi Sigma Alpha Names Award Winners
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The Meaning of Democracy and the Vulnerabilities of Democracies: A Response to Tocqueville's Challenge
Faustian bargains
Where to Begin
Ifwhat goes on in human societies are viewed as institutionalfacts rather than brutefacts, then basic issues are raised with regard to the meaning of federalism. Institutional facts are constituted by reference to rules and rule-ordered arrangements. Such arrangements turn upon design concepts and theirplace in the constitution oforder in human societies. Constituting societies through patterns of covenantal relationships implies that federal soc…
Epistemic choice and public choice
Rethinking social policy, race, poverty, and the underclass
An Inquiry Concerning Liberty and Equality in the American Constitutional System
Journal Article An Inquiry Concerning Liberty and Equality in the American Constitutional System Get access Vincent Ostrom Vincent Ostrom Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 20, Issue 2, Spring 1990, Pages 33–51, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037876 Published: 01 January 1990
Problems of Cognition as a Challenge to Policy Analysts and Democratic Societies
Tocqueville offers an analysis of how cognitive limits and distortions are likely to place democracies at risk. Similar problems exist in policy analysis. Theoretical discourse, which increasingly distances itself from social reality, yields a large gap between theory and practice. A language which specifies elements and relationships for addressing multiple levels and units of analysis in analysing problematical situations and exploring alternat…
Ostrom on The Federalist Reconsidered
Ostrom on Constitutional Fundamentals
Confronting Public Sector Complexity
Buchanan and the Constitutional Bases of Political Decision Making
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Historical Circumstances and Theoritical Structures as Sources of Meaning: A Response
Journal Article Historical Circumstances and Theoritical Structures as Sources of Meaning: A Response Get access Vincent Ostrom Vincent Ostrom Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 15, Issue 1, Winter 1985, Pages 55–64, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037533 Published: 01 January 1985
The Meaning of Federalism in The Federalist: A Critical Examiniation of the Diamond Theses
Journal Article The Meaning of Federalism in The Federalist: A Critical Examiniation of the Diamond Theses Get access Vincent Ostrom Vincent Ostrom Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 15, Issue 1, Winter 1985, Pages 1–21, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037517 Published: 01 January 1985
The Meaning of Value Terms
The Organization of Government in Metropolitan Areas: A Theoretical Inquiry
Allusions to the "problem of metropolitan government" are often made in characterizing the difficulties supposed to arise because a metropolitan region is a legal non-entity. From this point of view, the people of a metropolitan region have no general instrumentality of government available to deal directly with the range of problems which they share in common. Rather there is a multiplicity of federal and state governmental agencies, counties, c…
Consumers as Coproducers of Public Services: Some Economic and Institutional Considerations
The concept of coproduction of public services has captured increased attention as a potential means of increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of local government. In this article we explore the concept of coproduction in an effort to sharpen the definition of that concept and add rigor to our understanding of the effects of coproduction in local service delivery and the processes by which coproductive activity occurs
Public Choice: A Different Approach to the Study of Public Administration
A Behavioral Approach to the Study of Intergovernmental Relations
The study of intergovernmental relationships re quires a systemic approach to phenomena involving the inter action of many large-scale organizations. The concept of an industry, borrowed from economics, is used to characterize a set of interrelated public enterprises which makes use of a com mon body of knowledge and methods in the production of similar goods or services. The disparity of interests within an industry is related to diversity in th…
Can Federalism Make a Difference
Journal Article CAN FEDERALISM MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Get access Vincent Ostrom Vincent Ostrom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 3, Issue 2, 1973, Pages 197–237, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a038279 Published: 01 January 1973
The Meaning of Federalism in The Federalist: A Critical Examiniation of the Diamond Theses
Journal Article The Meaning of Federalism in The Federalist: A Critical Examiniation of the Diamond Theses Get access Vincent Ostrom Vincent Ostrom Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 15, Issue 1, Winter 1985, Pages 1–21, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037517 Published: 01 January 1985
The Quest for Meaning in Public Choice
The logical foundations of constitutional government are of basic importance if people are to be self-governing. All forms of political order are Faustian bargains subject to numerous risks. If constitutional choice applies to all patterns of human association, the complexity of associated relationships and the potential threats to the viability of associated relationships in the aggregate exceed the limits of human cognition. The development of …
Dewey and Federalism: So Near and Yet So Far
Journal Article Dewey and Federalism: So Near and Yet So Far Get access Vincent Ostrom Vincent Ostrom Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 9, Issue 4, Fall 1979, Pages 87–101, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a038567 Published: 01 January 1979
Epistemic choice and public choice
Some Problems in Doing Political Theory: A Response to Golembiewski's “Critique”
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Problems of Cognition as a Challenge to Policy Analysts and Democratic Societies
Tocqueville offers an analysis of how cognitive limits and distortions are likely to place democracies at risk. Similar problems exist in policy analysis. Theoretical discourse, which increasingly distances itself from social reality, yields a large gap between theory and practice. A language which specifies elements and relationships for addressing multiple levels and units of analysis in analysing problematical situations and exploring alternat…
State Administration of Natural Resources in the West
West of the one hundredth meridian, the average annual rainfall is generally less than twenty inches except for higher mountainous areas and the humid area west of the Cascade range in western Washington and Oregon and an area west of the Coast range in northwestern California. With less than twenty inches of rainfall, irrigation and dry-farming methods are required to supplement and conserve the native moisture if successful crops are to be prod…
Where to Begin
Ifwhat goes on in human societies are viewed as institutionalfacts rather than brutefacts, then basic issues are raised with regard to the meaning of federalism. Institutional facts are constituted by reference to rules and rule-ordered arrangements. Such arrangements turn upon design concepts and theirplace in the constitution oforder in human societies. Constituting societies through patterns of covenantal relationships implies that federal soc…
Faustian bargains
An Inquiry Concerning Liberty and Equality in the American Constitutional System
Journal Article An Inquiry Concerning Liberty and Equality in the American Constitutional System Get access Vincent Ostrom Vincent Ostrom Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 20, Issue 2, Spring 1990, Pages 33–51, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037876 Published: 01 January 1990
Nonhierarchical Approaches to the Organization of Public Activity
Recent emphasis on the management of intergovernmental relations raises questions about patterns of governance in a federal system that rely more upon the nonhierarchical modes of organization implied by management principles. Tocqueville, in Democracy in America, explicitly recognized that the American system of administration relied on nonhierarchical methods of control that manifest an invisible-hand effect in the exercise of administrative po…
Hobbes, Covenant, and Constitution
Hobbes, Covenant, and Constitution Vincent Ostrom Vincent Ostrom Worskshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 10, Issue 4, Fall 1980, Pages 83–100, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037335 Published: 01 January 1980
The American experiment in constitutional choice
The American Contribution to a Theory of Constitutional Choice
Human Fallibility, Political Theory, and the Environment
Policy Studies JournalVolume 1, Issue 4 p. 205-209 HUMAN FALLIBILITY, POLITICAL THEORY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT Vincent Ostrom, Vincent Ostrom Indiana UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Vincent Ostrom, Vincent Ostrom Indiana UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: June 1973 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0072.1973.tb00101.xCitations: 2AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation S…
Operational federalism: Organization for the provision of public services in the American federal system
Buchanan’s opening to constitutional choice and meta-levels of analysis
Citizen-Sovereigns: The Source of Contestability, the Rule of Law, and the Conduct of Public Entrepreneurship
It was my good fortune to have known John Gaus and to have attended a lecture course and participated in a seminar that he offered in 1949. His Alabama lectures entitled Reflections on Public Administration, published in 1947, included such titles as “The Ecology of Government” and “Politics and Administration.” His concluding chapter, written after the initial presentations, was entitled “A Theory of the Process of Government.” Gaus was broadly …
Section News
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Pi Sigma Alpha Names Award Winners
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The Initiative and Referendum in California
The Politics of California: A Book of Readings
The Social Scientist and the Control and Development of Natural Resources
T HE availability of natural resources and the ways that resources are exploited for human purposes is an important key to the understanding of sustenance patterns, institutional arrangements and policies in any society. As Walter Prescott Webb has recently demonstrated, the windfalls of the frontier furnished great material wealth at relatively little cost to spark the development and institutionalization of modern capitalism.' Frederick Jackson…
State Administration of Natural Resources in the West
West of the one hundredth meridian, the average annual rainfall is generally less than twenty inches except for higher mountainous areas and the humid area west of the Cascade range in western Washington and Oregon and an area west of the Coast range in northwestern California. With less than twenty inches of rainfall, irrigation and dry-farming methods are required to supplement and conserve the native moisture if successful crops are to be prod…
Water and Politics: A Study of Water Policies and Administration in the Development of Los Angeles
The Political Dimension of Regional Analysis
Six Functions in Search of a Government
The Political Structure of a Small Community
The Political Structure of a Small Community Author(s): Robert E. Agger and Vincent Ostrom Source: The Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 1, Special Issue on Studies in Political Communication (Spring, 1956), pp. 81-89 Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Association for Public Opinion Research Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2746554 Accessed: 04/04/2010 08:22
Tools for Decision-Making in Resource Planning
Prediction and Planning: Some Problems in the Study of Political Behavior
Knowledge, Science, and Policy
Professor Ostrom of the University of California at Los Angeles suggests answers to the questions: Why law, why decisions? To introduce order and predictability into groups, to pursue goals. Expanding social science enhances the range of instrumental choices for the decision-maker but naturally introduces an ever-greater dependence upon administrative science. Science and "politics" thus tend to grow closer together
The Organization of Government in Metropolitan Areas: A Theoretical Inquiry
Allusions to the "problem of metropolitan government" are often made in characterizing the difficulties supposed to arise because a metropolitan region is a legal non-entity. From this point of view, the people of a metropolitan region have no general instrumentality of government available to deal directly with the range of problems which they share in common. Rather there is a multiplicity of federal and state governmental agencies, counties, c…
A Behavioral Approach to the Study of Intergovernmental Relations
The study of intergovernmental relationships re quires a systemic approach to phenomena involving the inter action of many large-scale organizations. The concept of an industry, borrowed from economics, is used to characterize a set of interrelated public enterprises which makes use of a com mon body of knowledge and methods in the production of similar goods or services. The disparity of interests within an industry is related to diversity in th…
Operational federalism: Organization for the provision of public services in the American federal system
Public Choice: A Different Approach to the Study of Public Administration
Theory of Public Policy
Policy Studies JournalVolume 1, Issue 1 p. 11-14 THEORY OF PUBLIC POLICY Vincent Ostrom, Vincent Ostrom University of IndianaSearch for more papers by this author Vincent Ostrom, Vincent Ostrom University of IndianaSearch for more papers by this author First published: September 1972 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0072.1972.tb00052.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text…
Can Federalism Make a Difference
Journal Article CAN FEDERALISM MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Get access Vincent Ostrom Vincent Ostrom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 3, Issue 2, 1973, Pages 197–237, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a038279 Published: 01 January 1973
Human Fallibility, Political Theory, and the Environment
Policy Studies JournalVolume 1, Issue 4 p. 205-209 HUMAN FALLIBILITY, POLITICAL THEORY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT Vincent Ostrom, Vincent Ostrom Indiana UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Vincent Ostrom, Vincent Ostrom Indiana UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: June 1973 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0072.1973.tb00101.xCitations: 2AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation S…
Maintenance" and "Task" as Central Challenges in Public Administration
Language, Theory and Empirical Research in Policy Analysis
Decentralization: Achieving Reform
The American experiment in constitutional choice
The American Contribution to a Theory of Constitutional Choice
Some Problems in Doing Political Theory: A Response to Golembiewski's “Critique”
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Organizational Rationality, Congressional Oversight, and Decentralization: An Exchange
Organizational Rationality, Congressional Oversight, and Decentralization: An Exchange Get access John Brademas, John Brademas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Neil Peirce, Neil Peirce Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Elliot Richardson, Elliot Richardson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Vincent Ostrom, Vincent Ostrom Search for …
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