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• Clark, Sara Catherine. 2019. “Elinor Ostrom: A Biography of Interdisciplinary Life.” PhD diss., Indiana University.
• “Indiana Matters: Environmental Change,” Indiana Public Media, Apr. 24, 2019.
• Cardenas, Juan Camilo, and Rajiv Sethi. 2016. “Elinor Ostrom: Fighting the Tragedy of the Commons.” Books and Ideas, 12 (September). ISSN: 2105-3030.
• Aligica, Paul Dragos. 2014. Institutional Diversity and Political Economy: The Ostroms and Beyond. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Hawkins, Robert B. 2014. “My Association with Vincent and Lin Ostrom.”
• Publius: The Journal of Federalism, virtual issue (2014): "Scholarly Works on Federalism by Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom"; and blog posting by John Kincaid on the Ostroms and their federalism scholarship.
• McGinnis, Michael, and Elinor Ostrom. 2012. “Reflections on Vincent Ostrom, Public Administration, and Polycentricity.”Public Administration Review 72(1): 15–25.
• The Good Society 20(1) (2011), Special issue, “Symposium: The Bloomington School.”
• Aligica, Paul Dragos, and Peter Boettke. 2010. “The Social Philosophies of Ostroms’ Institutionalism.” Working Paper no. 10–19. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University, Mercatus Center.
• “Elinor Ostrom: An Uncommon Colleague” and “A Common Interest” (Burney Fischer & Elinor Ostrom), SPEA magazine (Spring 2010): 4–7; 8–10.
• Toonen, Theo. 2010. “Resilience in Public Administration: The Work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom from a Public Administration Perspective.”Public Administration Review 70(2): 193–202.
• Transnational Corporations Review 2(2) (2010), Special issue, “Celebrating Elinor Ostrom’s 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.”
• “Working Together: A Q&A with Elinor Ostrom.” Research & Creative Activity 32(2) (Spring 2010): 6–9.
• Aligica, Paul Dragos, and Peter Boettke. 2009. Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School. New York: Routledge.
• Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 57(2) (2005), Special issue, “Polycentric Political Economy: A Festschrift for Elinor & Vincent Ostrom.”

• Actual World, Possible Future: A Documentary about the Life and Work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom (Barbara Allen, director)
• Other videos directed by Barbara Allen: (1) “The Artisanship and Science of Institutional Design”; (2) “The Lakewood Project and the Ostrom Workshop”.
• “The Master Artisan,” profile of Elinor Ostrom, Finance & Development 48(3) (2011).
• Walk-the-Talk with Elinor Ostrom, video interview in India, February 12, 2011.
• “Elinor Ostrom and the Search for Sustainability,” Current Conservation 4(3) (2010).
• “An Interview with Elinor Ostrom,” by Margaret Levi, Annual Reviews Conversations, 2010. Transcript (PDF) or Video.
• “A Researcher’s Tale, Then and Now” (an interview with Elinor Ostrom by Michael Wilkerson), Research & Creative Activity 25(1) (Fall 2002).

• Ostrom, Elinor. 2011. “Background on the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework.”Policy Studies Journal 39(1): 7–27.
• Policy Studies Journal 39(1) (2011). Special issue, “State-of-the-art” Report on the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) Framework.

• Ecology and Society 19(2) (2014). Special issue edited by Pieter Bots, Maja Schlüter, and Jan Sendzimir, “A Framework for Analyzing, Comparing, and Diagnosing Social-Ecological Systems.”
• Epstein, Graham, Jessica Vogt, Sarah Mincey, Michael Cox, and Burnell Fischer. 2013. “Missing Ecology: Integrating Ecological Perspectives with the Social-Ecological System Framework.”International Journal of the Commons 7(2): 432–53.
• Janssen, Marco, François Bousquet, and Elinor Ostrom. 2011. “A Multimethod Approach to Study the Governance of Social-Ecological Systems.” Natures Sciences Sociétés (June): 4–16.
• Ostrom, Elinor, and Michael Cox. 2010. “Moving Beyond Panaceas: A Multi-Tiered Diagnostic Approach for Social-Ecological Analysis.”Environmental Conservation 37(4): 451–63.
• Ostrom, Elinor. 2009. “A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems.”Science 325(5939): 419–22.

• Women in Economics video series, MRUniversity, 2019, Episode 1: Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom, presented by Tyler Cowen.
• Oldham, Josh, and Bela Cunningham. 2019. “We don’t have community policing. That’s no accident.” Video featuring Elinor Ostrom’s study of police services.
• Boettke, Peter, Liya Palagashvili, and Jayme Lemke. 2013. “Riding in Cars with Boys: Elinor Ostrom’s Adventures with Police.”Journal of Institutional Economics 9(4): 407–25.
• “Do You Believe in Sharing?” (A Story about Garrett Hardin and Elinor Ostrom), by Tim Harford, Financial Times, August 30, 2013.
• International Journal of the Commons (2011), Special issue, “The 20th Anniversary of Elinor Ostrom’s ‘Governing the Commons,’” Part 1 and Part 2.
• Hess, Charlotte. 2010. “The Calculus of Commitment: The Ostroms, The Workshop and The Commons.”The Commons Digest, no. 9 (Spring): 1-5.
• “Preventing the Tragedy of the Commons,” IU International (Fall 2009): 29–32.
• “Common Sense and Common-Pool Resources,” by Mari Jensen, Bioscience 50(8) (2000): 638–44.
• Ostrom, Elinor. 1990. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Parks, Roger B., et al. 1981. “Consumers as Coproducers of Public Services: Some Economic and Institutional Considerations.”Policy Studies Journal 9(7): 1001–1011.

• Cole, Daniel H., and Michael D. McGinnis, eds., Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy: Volume 4, Policy Applications and Extensions (2018); Volume 3, A Framework for Policy Analysis (2017); Volume 2, Resource Governance (2015); Volume 1, Polycentricity in Public Administration and Political Science (2015). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Sabetti, Filippo, and Dario Castiglione, eds. 2016. Institutional Diversity in Self-Governing Societies: The Bloomington School and Beyond. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Tarko, Vlad. 2016. Elinor Ostrom: An Intellectual Biography. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Sabetti, Filippo, and Paul Dragos Aligica, eds. 2014. Choice, Rules and Collective Action: The Ostroms on the Study of Institutions and Governance. Colchester, UK: University of Essex, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Press.
• Wall, Derek. 2014. The Sustainable Economics of Elinor Ostrom: Commons, Contestation and Craft. New York: Routledge.
• Ostrom, Vincent. 2011 & 2012. The Quest to Understand Human Affairs, volume 1 and volume 2. Edited by Barbara Allen. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Sabetti, Filippo, Barbara Allen, and Mark Sproule-Jones, eds. 2009. The Practice of Constitutional Development: Vincent Ostrom’s Quest to Understand Human Affairs. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Sproule-Jones, Mark, Barbara Allen, and Filippo Sabetti, eds. 2008. The Struggle to Constitute and Sustain Productive Orders: Vincent Ostrom’s Quest to Understand Human Affairs. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• McGinnis, Michael, ed., Polycentric Governance and Development (1999); Polycentricity and Local Public Economies (1999); and Polycentric Games and Institutions (2000): Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.