The Quest to Understand Human Affairs Natural Resources Policy and Essays on Community and Collective Choice

by Ostrom, Vincent; Allen, Barbara; Ostrom, Elinor

• ISBN13: 9780739126103
• ISBN10: 0739126105
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-16
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

This volume presents fifty previously unpublished essays by Vincent Ostrom on the U.S. government's environmental problems and resource governance. Political theorist Barbara Allen has edited the work and supplied extensive notes that provide context and identify key events and persons cited in the works. These remarkable essays offer specialists insight into developments in the fields of institutional analysis, resource governance, policy, and administration, and speak to the worldwide transformations in democracies and human and environmental relations. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Vincent Ostrom is the founding director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of political science at Indiana University in Bloomington. Barbara Allen is professor of political science at Carleton College.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Editor's Introduction	p. xiii
Natural Resources Policy and the Practice of Collective and Constitutional Choice
1947: Some Western Issues in National Politics	p. 3
1948: A Statement [of Resignation from the University of Wyoming]	p. 31
1955-1956: The Alaska Constitution and Natural Resources	p. 37
The Constitution of the State of Alaska: Article VIII: Natural Resources	p. 43
Clarifying the Meaning of Article VIII: Natural Resources, as Adopted by the Alaska Constitutional Convention, in 1956	p. 46
Alaska Constitutional Convention: Commentary on Article on State Lands and Natural Resources	p. 57
Selected Correspondence Regarding Article VIII	p. 64
1956-1958: Resource Administration in Practice: Water Policies and Public Works	p. 81
A Water Policy for Tennessee	p. 89
Draft Interim Report No. 1 Snake River Study	p. 106
1959: Natural Resources and Economic and Institutional Development in Hawaii	p. 111
Proceedings of the Hawaii Pre-Legislative Conference, Panel on Land Use: Remarks of Vincent Ostrom on Problems of Public Policies Concerning Land Use	p. 115
Organization for Administration of Natural Resources and Economic Development in the Territory of Hawaii: A Survey Report of the Public Administration Service	p. 118
1960: Contributions to the Western States' Democratic Conference and the National Democratic Party 1960 Platform on Natural Resources	p. 123
1968: Organization of Decision-Making Arrangements and the Development of Atmospheric Resources	p. 137
1971: An Alternative Approach to the Design of Public Organizational Arrangements	p. 177
Community and Collective Choice
1952-1954: Community Studies and Educational Policy: The Kellogg Foundation Northwest Cooperative Program in Educational Administration at the University of Oregon	p. 219
A Study of Community Behavior in Policy Formation with Special Reference to Education Policies	p. 221
Kellogg Project: Research Memorandum on An Approach to the Analysis of the Processes of Policy Formation	p. 224
An Approach to the Study of Political Behavior in the Local Community	p. 232
1957-1958: New Directions in Theory and Method: Studies of the Klamath Indians	p. 241
An Additional Note on the Theoretical Orientation of My Current Research	p. 248
A Case Study of Termination of Federal Trusteeship Responsibilities in the Klamath Reservation	p. 253
Interim Report on the Klamath [Indian Tribe] Termination [of Tribal Status Policy] Study	p. 260
1978: Language, Reason, and Discourse: A Comment on Thomas Sowell's "Institutional Advantage and State Action Concepts"	p. 271
1982: The Normative Context of Community	p. 291
1982: Institutional Analysis, Policy Analysis, and Performance Evaluation	p. 319
1999: The Centrality of Local Institutions in the Constitution of Democracies	p. 339
From Collective Choice to Constitutional Choice
1975: Political Orders and Public Service Structures	p. 351
1979: Public Bureaucracies: Challenges and Responses to New Problems in Public Organization	p. 379
1982: Self-Administration and Bureaucratic Administration	p. 397
1983: Adam Smith and Public Goods	p. 413
1988: Executive Leadership, Authority Relationships, and Public Entrepreneurship	p. 433
1988: The Foundations of Institutional Analysis and Development	p. 451
Index	p. 477
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