Governing their commons: Elinor and Vincent Ostrom and the Bloomington School

Herzberg, Roberta Q.

doi:10.1007/s11127-015-0243-1

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“…Aligica, Lewis, and Storr (2017: x) say the Bloomington School has a ‘Tocquevillian background’. Herzberg connects the Ostroms’ understanding of methodological individualism to ‘Tocqueville's self-interest rightly understood’ (Herzberg, 2015: 97). 10 On the whole, the term Tocquevillian in reference to the Ostroms seems to connote a set of related themes: Tocqueville's democratic self-governance, his democratic individual, and, most importantly, his art of association.…”

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“…Their project often attested to how local familiarity better resolved community problems than answers invented by external actors (Boettke, Lemke, and Palagashvili, 2015: 323). The Ostroms appreciated the workings of American federalism as ‘facilitating individual choice, minimizing conflict and enhancing efficient decision processes at the lowest local level’ (Herzberg, 2015: 99). Much like Tocqueville, they admired the federal system.…”

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“… 8. Scholars of the Ostroms often refer to them together; see e.g. Aligica and Boettke (2011); Boettke, Lemke, and Palagashvili (2015); Herzberg (2015).…”

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Tocqueville and the Ostroms

Wilford

2022

History of the Human Sciences

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Although it is commonplace for political scientists to draw upon historical thinkers and the ‘great books’ of the past, the practice of using historical works as reference points for contemporary issues remains under-investigated. To address this practice, this article is positioned at the crossroads of social science and intellectual history. By examining the relationship of political economists Elinor and Vincent Ostrom with Alexis de Tocqueville, the article demonstrates some of the potential risks incurred by social scientists drawing on historical thinkers. After exploring the similarities between the Ostroms and Tocqueville, it identifies three key pitfalls of the Ostroms’ ‘Tocquevillian’ rhetoric. These pitfalls result in obscuring meaning and overlooking philosophical insights, both of which detract from the Ostroms’ project. Insights from the field of intellectual history are offered. A final section presents a key example of Vincent Ostrom overlooking Tocqueville's thought where Tocqueville's insights were directly applicable to his work. The article parses political science's relationship with the past and offers a critique that is applicable beyond Tocqueville and the Ostroms.

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2022

History of the Human Sciences

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“…Asian environmental governance issues rank third in prevalence, addressed in 25 articles (13 percent). IAD articles have the most diverse geographic representation, possibly because of the prevalence of common-pool resource management challenges in the developing world and the concerted effort of the IAD's authors, Elinor and Vincent Ostrom, to engage scholars worldwide (Herzberg, 2015). Finally, we summarize the diversity in spatial, temporal, and policy scales for each of the nine policy theories using an index of qualitative variation (IQV) ( Table 2).…”

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Applying Policy Process Theories to Environmental Governance Research: Themes and New Directions

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Policy Studies Journal

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Policy scholars have effectively leveraged policy process models, theories, and frameworks to respond to a variety of important environmental questions. For example, how do environmental issues arrive on the agendas of policymakers? What factors contribute to environmental policy change? What are the designs and effects of institutions (e.g., policies or cultural norms) on environmental governance? In this review, we survey the field of policy process scholarship, focusing on environmental governance, with three objectives. The first objective is to catalog the policy process models, theories, and frameworks most often featured in studies of environmental governance. The second is to capture the methodological choices commonly employed in the application of these models, theories, and frameworks in environmental domains. The third is to identify how these approaches deal with issues central to environmental governance research, including time, space, and policy scale. We aim to identify trends and strategies for integrating key considerations of scale into empirical policy process scholarship.

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“…In modern and the present age, theocratic govern, tyrancratic govern and timocratic govern generally took the politics of political party as the basic realization way, taking the national sovereignty as the supreme realization form, whether authoritarianism or totalitarianism, or oligopoly, all these adopted the surface democracy forms (the 'democracy' of the western multiparty and the 'democracy' of the eastern singe-party system), their respective control, ruling power, and influence have been expanded in an unprecedented way. They are able to control, press and exploit the people from the mind, emotion, ideology, behaviour, action and organizational activities (Aligica, 2014;Crawford & Ostrom, 1995;Herzberg, 2015).…”

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Framework of Citizen-Autonomous Alliance for Elimination of Power Alienation: Rebuilt of Management (II) for New Civilization

De-jia

2019

Paradigm: A Management Research Journal

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According to the analysis of this series of papers, in the old civilized world for thousands of years, theocracies, tyrancracies and timocracies, along with the later deify-overlord’s sovereignty, party-tyrant’s sovereignty and plutocrat’s sovereignty are the major powers which dominate all things. This series of papers put forth the hierarchical analysis sequence of ontology: arche – paradigm – pattern – structure – factors, and thus the analytic framework of the ontology and its axiomatism for the power ecosphere of the world is set. For the new civilized world to be created, the recombination of interests, the reconstruction of human rights and the reengineering of sovereignty should be the basic content of the rebuilt of dynamic foundation. We should rebuild the sovereignty, with citizen’s sovereignties as the core. Thus this paper establishes the design basis of the ontological dynamics for the synthetic study of inter-discipline on the citizen-autonomous commonwealth.

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Governing their commons: Elinor and Vincent Ostrom and the Bloomington School

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Tocqueville and the Ostroms

Tocqueville and the Ostroms

Applying Policy Process Theories to Environmental Governance Research: Themes and New Directions

Framework of Citizen-Autonomous Alliance for Elimination of Power Alienation: Rebuilt of Management (II) for New Civilization

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