Choice, rules and collective action: the Ostroms on the study of institutions and governance

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Contents List of Figures and Tables vii Acknowledgements ix Foreword by Dario Castiglione xi Elinor and Vincent Ostrom and the Workshop xix Introduction: The Ostroms' Research Program for the Study of Institutions and Governance: Theoretical and Epistemic Foundations 1 Paul Dragos Aligica and Filippo Sabetti Part One: Public Choice and Political Economy Chapter One: Public Choice: A Different Approach to the Study of Public Administration 23 Vincent Ostrom and Elinor Ostrom Chapter Two: Polycentricity: The Structural Basis of Self-Governing Systems 45 Vincent Ostrom Chapter Three: The Quest for Meaning in Public Choice 61 Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom Part Two: Beyond Public Choice: Institutions, Rules and Governance Systems Chapter Four: An Agenda for the Study of Institutions 97 Elinor Ostrom Chapter Five: A Behavioural Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action 121 Elinor Ostrom Chapter Six: Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems 167 Elinor Ostrom Part Three: Epistemic and Social Philosophical Perspectives Chapter Seven: Beyond Positivism 213 Elinor Ostrom Chapter Eight: A Conceptual-Computational Logic for Federal Systems of Governance 227 Vincent Ostrom Chapter Nine: Epistemic Choice and Public Choice 243 Vincent Ostrom Index 271

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