Exploring the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom

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Published by Bloomsbury Publishing in Economy, Polity, and Society

This definitive book examines and engages with the work of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom, along with the Bloomington School of Political Economy more generally. The contributors emphasize the continuing relevance of the Ostroms’ work on collective action, self-governance, and institutional diversity for interdisciplinary research in the social sciences and humanities. This book’s wide array of topics and approaches will be a valuable resource to readers in a variety of fields, including: political science, economics, philosophy, sociology, public administration, environmental studies, and political economy.

Contents

Introduction
Peter Boettke, Bobbi Herzberg, and Brian Kogelmann

Chapter 1: On the Dynamic Nature of Goods: Applications in Post-Disaster Contexts
Veeshan Rayamajhee

Chapter 2: The Culture in the Ostroms: Institutions, Rules, and Relational Rationality
Mili Kalia

Chapter 3: Social Services as Impure Public Goods: Ostromian Lessons for theor Provision in Contemporary Welfare States
Roland Fritz

Chapter 4: Polycentric Party Governance: Competition, Federalism, and the Production of Political Leadership in American Politics
Nicholas Jacobs

Chapter 5: Governing the (Banking) Commons: Polycentric Solutions to Bank Runs
Pablo Paniagua Prieto

Chapter 6: The Political Economy of the European Union: An Exploration of EU Institutions and Governance from the Perspective of Polycentrism
Jan P. Vogler 

Chapter 7: The Inmate's Dilemma: Prison Strikes as Repeated Games
Joanna Carroll

Chapter 8: The Cantinas Network of Terra do Meio: A Case of Institutional Learning in the Amazon Forest
V. Miranda Chase, Raquel Rodrigues dos Santos, and Augusto Postigo 

Chapter 9: Community, State and Market: Rethinking Social Capital in Transitional Authoritarian Regimes
Wanlin Lin

Chapter 10: Under Emergency Management: Community Responses to the Flint Water Crisis
Sawyer Phinney

Chapter 11: The Expressive Commons: Freedom of Expression as a Collective Action Problem
Alexander Schaefer

Chapter 12: Are American Immigrant Processing Institutions Surviving or Thriving? Large-Scale Immigration as a Shock to Institutional Robustness
Emily VanMeter