Polycentricity

Subject bibliography on polycentricity

This page was last updated October 2015.

Abel, T.D., M. Stephan, & D. Daley. 2014. "Climate Risk Polycentricity and the IAD Framework." Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop 5, Indiana University, Bloomington, June.

Agrawal, A. 2000. "Shepherds and Their Leaders among the Raikas of India: A Principal- Agent Perspective." InPolycentric Games and Institutions: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Akinola, S. 2007. "Knowledge Generation, Political Actions and African Development: A Polycentric Approach."International Journal of African Renaissance Studies 2:217-38.

Akinola, S.R. & A. Adespop. 2011. "Derivation Principle Dilemma and National (Dis)Unity in Nigeria: A Polycentric Planning Perspective on the Niger Delta." Journal of Sustainable Development.

Akinola, S.R. & A. Adesopo. 2014. "Reconnecting Self-Organising Institutions to the Formal Government Structure for Real Governance Impact in Nigeria." European Journal of Sustainable Development 3:53-72.

Akinola, S.R. 2010. "Restructuring the Public Sphere for Social Order in the Niger Delta through Polycentric Planning: What Lessons for Africa?" African and Asian Studies 9:55-82.

Akinola, S. 2006. "Polycentricity and Self-Governance in Yorubaland: A Passage to a Democratic Society in Nigeria." Mini-Conference of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Akinola, S.R. 2009. "Polycentric Planning and Community Self-Governance as Panacea to the Niger Delta Crisis." Journal of African Development 11:79-104.

Akinola, S. 2006. "Structural Transformation and Polycentric Governance: A Constitutional Gateway towards Nigerian Democratization." Public Hearing for the Review of the 1999 Constitution, Southwest Zone, Nigeria, February.

Aligica, P.D. & P.J. Boettke. 2010. The Social Philosophies of Ostroms' Institutionalism. (Working Paper)

Aligica, P.D. & P.J. Boettke. 2011. "The Two Social Philosophies of Ostroms' Institutionalism." Policy Studies Journal 39:29-49.

Aligica, P.D. & E. Chamlee-Wright. 2015. "Polycentricity and the Principles of Effective Co-Governance: What the Bloomington School Can Teach Us." In Liberal Learning and the Art of Self-Governance. Routledge.

Aligica, P.D. & V. Tarko. 2012. "Polycentricity: From Polanyi to Ostrom, and Beyond." Governance 25:237-262.

Aligica, P.D. & V. Tarko. 2014. "Institutional Resilience and Economic Systems: Lessons from Elinor Ostroms Work." Comparative Economic Studies 56:52-76.

Allen, B. 1998. "Heterogeneity and Federal Systems: Group Rights, Individual Rights, and Multicultural Citizenship." Crossing Boundaries, 7th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Vancouver, BC.

Araral, E. & K. Hartley. 2013. "Polycentric Governance for a New Environmental Regime: Theoretical Frontiers in Policy Reform and Public Administration." International Conference on Public Policy, Grenoble, June 26- 28.

Baer, S.E. 1999. "The Sub-Districting of Cities: Applying the Polycentric Model." Mini-Conference of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Baer, S.E. 2000. City Sub- Districts: A Comparison of Institutional Arrangements. (Working Paper)

Barnett, A.J. & J.M. Anderies. 2014. "Weak Feedbacks, Governance Mismatches, and the Robustness of Social-Ecological Systems: An Analysis of the Southwest Nova Scotia Lobster Fishery with Comparison to Maine."Ecology and Society 19.

Bernard, M., A. Dreber, P. Strimling, & K. Eriksson. 2013. "The Subgroup Problem: When can Binding Voting on Extractions from a Common Pool Resource Overcome the Tragedy of the Commons?" Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 91:122-130.

Biggs, R., M. Schlüter, & D. Biggs. 2012. "Toward Principles for Enhancing the Resilience of Ecosystem Services." Annual Review of Environment and Resources 37:421-448.

Bish, R.L. 1999. "Federalist Theory and Polycentricity: Learning from Local Governments." In Limiting Leviathan. Northampton, MA: Elgar.

Bish, R.L. 1994. "Evolving Aboriginal Government in British Columbia: The Relevance of Federalist Theory, Lakewood Plan Cities and Fiscal Equivalence." Workshop on the Workshop, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Blomquist, W. & R.B. Parks. 1999. "Fiscal, Service, and Political Impacts of Indianapolis-Marion County's Unigov." In Polycentricity and Local Public Economies: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Boettke, P.J. 2005. "Polycentric Political Economy: A Festschrift for Elinor and Vincent Ostrom: Introduction."Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 57:141-143.

Boettke, P.J. & C.J. Coyne. 2005. "Methodological Individualism, Spontaneous Order and the Research Program of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 57:145-158.

Boettke, P.J. & C.J. Coyne. 2003. "Methodological Individualism, Spontaneous Order and the Research Program of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis." Academic Conference in Honor of the Work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom, George Mason University, Arlington, VA.

Boettke, P.J., J.S. Lemke, & L. Palagashvili. 2013. "Riding in Cars with Boys: Elinor Ostrom's Adventures with the Police." Journal of Institutional Economics 9:407-425.

Brett, E.A. 1969. Politics, Economics & Rationality. (Working Paper)

Brie, M. 2014. "Towards a Plural and Polycentric World of Self-Organising Actors: Elinor Ostrom's Research Programme." International Critical Thought 4:160-177.

Bruns, B. 2006. "Reconstituting Water Rights: Pathways for Polycentric Praxis." Survival of the Commons: Mounting Challenges and New Realities, 11th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Bali, Indonesia.

Bryce, H.J. 2012. "Review Essay: Polycentric Governance, Capital Markets, and NGOs as Regulatory: Expanding the Scope of Ostrom's Understanding Institutional Diversity." Politics & Policy 40:519-535.

Cárdenas, J.C. 2001. "Thinking Globally and Getting Others to Act Locally: Polycentricity and the Conservation of Biodiversity." Environment and Resource Economics: Property Rights, Institutions, and Management of Environmental and Natural Resources, Toulouse, France.

Carpenter, S.R., et al. 2012. "General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events." Sustainability 4:3248-3259.

Cash, D.W. 2000. "Cross-Scale Information and Decision-Making Systems for Common Pool Resources: Water Management of the High Plains Aquifer in the U.S. Great Plains." Constituting the Commons: Crafting Sustainable Commons in the New Millennium, 8th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Bloomington, IN.

Chamlee-Wright, E., ed. 2012. The Annual Proceedings of the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations, 2011- 2012, Volume IV: Self-Governance, Polycentrism, and the Social Order: Ideas and Influence of Elinor Ostrom. Beloit, WI: Beloit College Press.

Craw, M. 1997. "Optimal Scale in Providing Public Bus Service in the Washington Metropolitan Area." Mini-Conference of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Crawford, S.E.S. & E. Ostrom. 2000. "A Grammar of Institutions." In Polycentric Games and Institutions: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Deitz, T. 2005. "The Darwinian Trope in the Drama of the Commons: Variations on Some Themes by the Ostroms." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 57:205-225.

Doolittle, A. 1998. "Historical and Contemporary Views of Legal Pluralism in Sabah, Malaysia (North Borneo)."Common Property Resource Digest 47:1-5.

Fernández-González, A. 2004. "Policentrismo y Gestión Ambiental en Costa Rica: Retos y Oportunidades de Diseño Institutional, con Énfasis en el Caso del Agua y las Cuencas Hidrográficas." The Commons in an Age of Global Transition: Challenges, Risks and Opportunities, 10th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Fernández-González, A. & B. Aylward. 1999. "Participation, Pluralism and Polycentrism: Reflections on Watershed Management in Costa Rica." Unasylva 50:52-59.

Firmin-Sellers, K. 1999. "The Concentration of Authority: Constitutional Creation in the Gold Coast, 1950." InPolycentric Governance and Development: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Fotos, M.A. 2015. "Vincent Ostrom's Revolutionary Science of Association." Public Choice.

Galaz, V., et al. 2012. "Polycentric Systems and Interacting Planetary Boundaries: Emerging Governance of Climate Change-Ocean Acidification-Marine Biodiversity." Ecological Economics 81:21-32.

Gallemore, C. & M.K. Darla. 2013. "Centralization in the Global Avoided Deforestation Collaboration Network."Global Environmental Change 23:1199-1210.

Gardner, R., M.R. Moore, & J.M. Walker. 1999. "Governing a Groundwater Commons: A Strategic and Laboratroy Analysis of Western Water Law." In Polycentric Games and Institutions: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

George, S. 2004. "Multi-Level Governance and the European Union." In Multi-Level Governance. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gibson, C.C. & S.A. Marks. 2000. "Transforming Rural Hunters into Conservationists: An Assessment of Community-Based Wildlife Management Programs in Africa." In Polycentric Games and Institutions: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Gil, B., O. Méndez, & A. Sobrino. 2014. "Food Policy and Local Participation: A Case Study of 'Cruzada Nacional Contra el Hambre'." Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop 5, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Goldthau, A. 2014. "Rethinking the Governance of Energy Infrastructure: Scale, Decentralization and Polycentrism." Energy Research & Social Science.

Harris, C.W. 1972. "Regional Responses to Metro-Urban Problems: Councils of Governments." Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington DC.

Hayes, J. 2002. "Grazing of Federal Public Lands: An Overview of the Institutional Landscape." Institutional Analysis and Development Mini-Conference and TransCoop Meeting, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Herzberg, R. 2003. "Commentary on Richard Wager's 'Self-Governance, Polycentrism, and Federalism: Recurring Themes in Vincent Ostrom's Scholarly Oeuvre'." Academic Conference in Honor of the Work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom, George Mason University, Arlington, VA.

Herzberg, R. & V. Ostrom. 2000. "Votes and Vetoes." In Polycentric Games and Institutions: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Herzberg, R. 2005. "Commentary on Richard Wagner's 'Self-Governance, Polycentrism, and Federalism: Recurring Themes in Vincent Ostrom's Scholarly Oeuvre'." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization57:189-197.

Hooghe, L. & G. Marks. 2003. "Unraveling the Central State, but How? Types of Multi-Level Governance."American Political Science Review 97:233-243.

Hooghe, L. 2002. "The Mobilisation of Territorial Interests and Multilevel Governance." In L'Action Collective en Europe. Paris: Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques.

Illy, H.F. 1997. "Y a-t-il un Modele Ideal de l'Organisation de l'Etat? L'Approche Polycentrique." In La Revanche des Territoires. Rabat, Morocco: L'Harmattan-GRET.

Kashwan, P. 2009. "Just Environments: Analyzing the Politics of Policy-making on Environment and Development." India Economic Review VI:60-67.

Kim, L. 2004. "Polycentric Legal System: A Strategic Approach for East African Women." Mini-Conference of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Kiser, L.L. & E. Ostrom. 2000. "The Three Worlds of Action: A Metatheoretical Synthesis of Institutional Approaches." In Polycentric Games and Institutions: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Koontz, T.M., et al. 2015. "Adaptive Institutions in Social-Ecological Systems Governance: A Synthesis Framework." Environmental Science & Policy.

Kuzdas, C., et al. 2015. "Integrated and Participatory Analysis of Water Governance Regimes: The Case of the Costa Rican Dry Tropics." World Development 66:254-268.

Lam, W.F. 1999. "Institutional Design of Public Agencies and Coproduction: A Study of Irrigation Associations in Taiwan." In Polycentric Governance and Development: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Lam, W.F. 1999. "Improving the Performance of Small-Scale Irrigation Systems: The Effects of Technological Investments and Governance Structure on Irrigation Performance in Nepal." In Polycentric Governance and Development: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Lee, E., C.S. Jung, & M.K. Lee. 2014. "The Potential Role of Boundary Organizations in the Climate Regime."Environmental Science and Policy 36:24-36.

Lemke, J.S. 2012. "Polycentrism, Self-Governance, and the Case of Married Women's Rights Reform." In The Annual Proceedings of the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations, 2011-2012, Volume IV: Self-Governance, Polycentrism, and the Social Order: Ideas and Influence of Elinor Ostrom. Beloit, WI: Beloit College Press.

Libman, A. & A. Obydenkova. 2014. "Governance of Commons in a Large Nondemocratic Country: The Case of Forestry in the Russian Federation." Publius 44:298-323.

Long, A. 2013. "REDD+, Adaptation, and Sustainable Forest Management: Toward Effective Polycentric Global Forest Governance." Tropical Conservation Science 6:384-408.

Lyon, T.P & S.C. Hackett. 2000. "Bottlenecks and Governance Structures: Open Access and Long-Term Contracting in Natural Gas." In Polycentric Games and Institutions: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Marando, V.L. & S.E. Baer. 1999. The Sub-Districting of Cities: Testing the Polycentric Model. (Working Paper)

Marks, G. & L. Hooghe. 2004. "Contrasting Visions of Multi-Level Governance." In Multi-Level Governance. New York: Oxford University Press.

Marks, G. & L. Hooghe. 2000. "Optimality and Authority: A Critique of Neoclassical Theory." Journal of Common Market Studies 38:795-816.

Marshall, G.R. 2009. "Polycentricity, Reciprocity, and Farmer Adoption of Conservation Practices under Community-Based Governance." Ecological Economics 68:1507-1520.

McGinnis, Michael D. 1998. "Polycentric Development and Resource Management and Polycentric Games and Institutional Analysis." Colloquium at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington.

McGinnis, M.D., ed. 1999. Polycentric Governance and Development: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

McGinnis, M.D., ed. 1999. Polycentricity and Local Public Economies: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

McGinnis, M.D., ed. 2000. Polycentric Games and Institutions: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

McGinnis, M.D. 2005. "Beyond Individualism and Spontaneity: Comments on Peter Boetkke and Christopher Coyne." Academic Conference in Honor of the Work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom, George Mason University, Arlington, VA.

McGinnis, M.D. 2011. "Elinor Ostrom: Politics as Problem-Solving in Polycentric Settings." In Maestri of Political Science, Vol. 2. Colchester, UK: ECPR Press.

McGinnis, M.D. & J.T. Williams. 2000. "Policy Uncertainty in Two-Level Games: Examples of Correlated Equilibria." In Polycentric Games and Institutions: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Meinzen-Dick, R. & R. Pradham. 2001. "Implications of Legal Pluralism for Natural Resource Management." IDS Bulletin 32:10-17.

Mostert, E. 2012. "Water Management on the Island of IJsselmonde 1000 to 1953: Polycentric Governance, Adaptation, and Petrification." Ecology and Society 17.

Nagendra, H. & E. Ostrom. 2014. "Applying the Social-Ecological System Framework to the Diagnosis of Urban Lake Commons in Bangalore, India." Ecology and Society 19.

Nagendra, H. & E. Ostrom. 2012. "Polycentric Governance of Multifunctional Forested Landscapes."International Journal of the Commons 6:104-133.

Narayanan, N.C. & J.P. Venot. 2009. "Drivers of Change in Fragile Environments: Challenges to Governance in Indian Wetlands." Natural Resources Forum 33:320-333.

Ngizua, F.W. 1999. Vers une Nouvelle Approche de l'Action Collective: Elinor Ostrom sur la Gestion des 'Common Pool Resources'. Les Carnets du Centre de Philosophie du Droit, no. 67.

Oakerson, R.J. 1987. "How Governance Structures Can Enhance Accountability and Responsiveness." (Working Paper)

Oakerson, R.J. 1989. How Governance Structures can Enhance Accountability and Responsiveness.

Oakerson, R.J. 2002. "The Governance Effects of Metropolitan Reform: A Theoretical Inquiry." De Voe Moore Center Critical Issues Symposium, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.

Oakerson, R.J. & R.B. Parks. 1999. "Citizen Voice and Public Entrepreneurship: The Organizational Dynamic of a Complex Metropolitan County." In Polycentricity and Local Public Economies: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Oakerson, R.J. & R.B. Parks. 2011. "The Study of Local Public Economies: Multi-organizational, Multi- level Institutional Analysis and Development." Policy Studies Journal 39:147-167.

Olowu, D. 1999. "Local Organizations and Development: The African Experience." In Polycentric Governance and Development: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, E. 1976. "Multiplicity of Local Governments: A Logical Explanation." In Aspects of Planning for Public Services in Rural Areas. Ames, IA: North Central Regional Center for Rural Development.

Ostrom, E. 1983. "Analyzing Institutions for the Delivery of Local Collective Goods." American Society for Public Administration Meetings, New York.

Ostrom, E. 1999. "Coping with Tragedies of the Commons." Annual Review of Political Science 2:493-535.

Ostrom, E. 1999. "Crossing the Great Divide: Coproduction: Synergy, and Development." In Polycentric Governance and Development: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, E. 1999. "Design Principles in Long-Enduring Irrigation Institutions." In Polycentric Governance and Development: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, E. 1999. "Metropolitan Reform: Propositions Derived from Two Traditions." In Polycentricity and Local Public Economies: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, E. 1999. "Polycentricity, Complexity, and the Commons." Pegs 9:37-41.

Ostrom, E. 1999. "Size and Performance in a Federal System." In Polycentricity and Local Public Economies: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, E. 1999. "Why Do We Need Multiple Indicators of Public Service Outputs." In Polycentricity and Local Public Economies: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, E. 2000. "An Agenda for the Study of Institutions." In Polycentric Games and Institutions: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, E. 2000. "A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action." In Polycentric Games and Institutions: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, E. 2000. "Crowding out Citizenship." Scandinavian Political Studies 23:3-16.

Ostrom, E. 2000. "The Danger of Self-Evident Truths." PS: Political Science and Politics 33:33-44.

Ostrom, E. 2001."Vulnerability and Polycentric Governance Systems." IHDP Update 3:1-4.

Ostrom, E. 2002. "Achieving Progress in Solving Collective-Action Problems." In Making Progress: Essays in Progress and Public Policy. Lanham, MD: Lexington.

Ostrom, E. 2005. Understanding Institutional Diversity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Ostrom, E. 2005. "Unlocking Public Entrepreneurship and Public Economics." (Discussion Paper, no 2005/01)

Ostrom, E. 2007. "The Governance Challenge: Matching Institutions to the Structure of Social-Ecological Systems." (Working Paper)

Ostrom, E. 2008. "Polycentric Systems as One Approach for Solving Collective-action Problems." (Working Paper)

Ostrom, E. 2009. "The Contribution of Community Institutions to Environmental Problem- Solving." InGoverning the Environment: Salient Institutional Issues. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Ostrom, E. 2009. "Polycentric Systems as One Approach to Solving Collective-Action Problems." In Climate Change and Sustainable Development: New Challenges for Poverty Reduction. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Ostrom, E. 2010. "Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic System."American Economic Review 100(3):641-72

Ostrom, E. 2010. "Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic System." In The Nobel Foundation, Les Prix Nobel 2009. Västerås, Sweden: Edita Västra Aros.

Ostrom, E. 2012. "Nested Externalities and Polycentric Institutions: Must We Wait for Global Solutions to Climate Change before Taking Actions at Other Scales." Economic Theory 49:353-369.

Ostrom, E. 2012. "Par-Dela les Marches et les Etats la Gouvernance Polycentrique des Systemes Economiques Complexes." Revue de l'OFCE 120:13-72.

Ostrom, E. 2013. "Commons, Institutional Diversity of." Encyclopedia of Biodiversity 2:155-166.

Ostrom, E. & R. Gardner. 2000. "Coping with Asymmetries in the Commons: Self-Governing Irrigation Systems Can Work." In Polycentric Games and Institutions: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, E. & M.A. Janssen. 2004. "Multi-Level Governance and Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems." InGlobalisation, Poverty and Conflict: A Critical 'Development' Reader. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic.

Ostrom, E. & V. Ostrom, eds. 1980. Political Theory and Policy Analysis: A Handbook of Selected Papers. Bloomington, IN: Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.

Ostrom, E. & R.B. Parks. 1999. "Neither Gargantua nor the Land of Lilliputs: Conjectures on Mixed Systems of Metropolitan Organization." In Polycentricity and Local Public Economies: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, E., R.B. Parks, & G.P. Whitaker. 1999. "Defining and Measuring Structural Variations in Interorganizational Arrangements." In Polycentricity and Local Public Economies: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, E. & J.M. Walker. 2000. "Neither Markets nor States: Linking Transformation Processes in Collective-Action Arenas." In Polycentric Games and Institutions: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, E. & G.P. Whitaker. 1999. "Community Control and Governmental Responsiveness: The Case of Police in Black Communities." In Polycentricity and Local Public Economies: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, E. & G.P. Whitaker. 1999. "Does Local Community Control of Police Make a Difference? Some Preliminary Findings." In Polycentricity and Local Public Economies: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, V. 1972. "Polycentricity." Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC.

Ostrom, V. 1981. "The Normative and Limiting Conditions in a Polycentric Political Order." International Conference on the Analysis of Intergovernmental and Interorganizational Arrangements in Public Administration, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Ostrom, V. 1985. "Conceptualizing the Nature and Magnitude of the Task in Institutional Analysis and Development." In Studies in Institutional Analysis and Development: Papers Prepared by Participants in the Seminar on Patterns of Order and Development in Human Societies. Bloomington, IN: Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.

Ostrom, V. 1988. "Federalism, Polycentricity, and Res Publica: Some Reflections on the American Experiments in Republican Government." Res Publica: East and West, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, October.

Ostrom, V. 1991. The Meaning of American Federalism: Constituting a Self-Governing Society. San Francisco, CA: Institute for Contemporary Studies.

Ostrom, V. 1999. "Artisanship and Artifact." In Polycentric Governance and Development: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, V. 1999. "Cryptoimperialism, Predatory States, and Self-Governance." In Polycentric Governance and Development: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, V. 1999. "A Forgotten Tradition: The Constitutional Level of Analysis." In Polycentric Governance and Development: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, V. 1999. "Polycentricity (Part 1)." In Polycentricity and Local Public Economies: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, V. 1999. "Polycentricity (Part 2)." In Polycentricity and Local Public Economies: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, V. 1999. "Problems of Cognition as a Challenge to Policy Analysts and Democratic Societies." InPolycentric Governance and Development: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, V. 1999. "Water and Politics California Style." In Polycentric Governance and Development: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, V. & E. Ostrom. 1999. "A Behavioral Approach to the Study of Intergovernmental Relations." InPolycentricity and Local Public Economies: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, V. & E. Ostrom. 1999. "Legal and Political Conditions of Water Resource Development." In Polycentric Governance and Development: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, V. & E. Ostrom. 1999. "Public Goods and Public Choices." In Polycentricity and Local Public Economies: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, V. & E. Ostrom. 2000. "Public Choice: A Different Approach to the Study of Public Administration." InPolycentric Games and Institutions: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ostrom, V., C.M. Tiebout, & R. Warren. 1999. "The Organization of Government in Metropolitan Areas: A Theoretical Inquiry." In Polycentricity and Local Public Economies: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Pacheco-Vega, R. 2015. "River Basin Councils as Action Arenas: Analyzing Rules and Norms in the Lerma-Chapala River Basin Council Using the IAD Framework." (Working Paper)

Pahl-Wostl, C., et al. 2012. "From Applying Panaceas to Mastering Complexity: Toward Adaptive Water Governance in River Basins." Environmental Science & Policy 23:24-34.

Parks, R.B., et al. 1999. "Consumers as Coproducers of Public Services: Some Economic and Institutional Considerations." In Polycentricity and Local Public Economies: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Parks, R.B. 1999. "Do We Really Want to Consolidate Urban Areas (It's Like Deja Vu All over Again)." InPolycentricity and Local Public Economies: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Parks, R.B. & E. Ostrom. 1999. "Complex Models of Urban Service Systems." In Polycentricity and Local Public Economies: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Pisanie, J.A. 2004. "Polycentric Governance as a Means to Limit Corruption." Workshop on the Workshop 3, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Plummer, R., A. Spiers, J. Fitzgibbon, & J. Imhof. 2005. "The Expanding Institutional Context for Water Resources Management: The Case of the Grand River Watershed." Canadian Water Resources Journal 30:227-244.

Raadschelders, J.C.N. & T. Toonen. 1999. "Modernity and the Challenge of Metropolitan Governance: Failure of Structural Solutions and the Polycentric Alternative." Workshop on the Workshop 2, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Rasmusen, E. 2000. "Heterogeneous Players and Specialized Models." In Polycentric Games and Institutions: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

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