Understanding institutional diversity / Elinor Ostrom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ostrom, Elinor.

Series:

Princeton paperbacks.

Princeton paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diversity in the workplace.

Multiculturalism.

Interpersonal relations.

Organizational behavior.

Social norms.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Understanding the diversity of structured human interactions

Zooming in and linking action situations

Studying action situations in the lab

Animating institutional analysis

A grammar of institutions / Sue Crawford and Elinor Ostrom

Why classify generic rules?

Classifying rules / Elinor Ostrom and Sue Crawford

Using rules as tools to cope with the commons

Robust resource governance in polycentric institutions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-349) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

9786612935947

9786612458675

9781400831739

1400831733

9781282935945

1282935941

9781282458673

1282458671

9781400832071

1400832071

OCLC:

630535202