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Working Papers
2015
- Des individus rationnels sont-ils désespérement piégés dans des dilemmes sociaux ? L’analyse d’Elinor Ostrom
Post-Print, HAL
Also in SciencePo Working papers Main, HAL (2015)
2013
- Façonner des outils d'analyse pour étudier le changement institutionnel
Post-Print, HAL View citations (3)
See also Journal Article Façonner des outils d’analyse pour étudier le changement institutionnel, Revue de la Régulation - Capitalisme, institutions, pouvoirs, Association Recherche et Régulation (2013) (2013)
2012
- Bosses and Kings: Asymmetric Power in Paired Common Pool and Public Good Games
Experimental Economics Center Working Paper Series, Experimental Economics Center, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University View citations (2)
2010
- A Polycentric Approach for Coping with Climate Change
World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group View citations (1)
Also in CEMA Working Papers, China Economics and Management Academy, Central University of Finance and Economics (2008) View citations (1) Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2009) View citations (143)
See also Journal Article A Polycentric Approach For Coping With Climate Change, Annals of Economics and Finance, Society for AEF (2014) View citations (28) (2014)
- Autobiography
Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee
- Unlocking Public Entrepreneurship and Public Economies
Working Papers, eSocialSciences 
Also in WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) (2005) View citations (20)
2009
- ANALYZING COLLECTIVE ACTION
2009 Conference, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China, International Association of Agricultural Economists View citations (8)
See also Journal Article Analyzing collective action, Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists (2010) View citations (75) (2010)
- Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems
Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee View citations (88)
See also Journal Article Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2010) View citations (553) (2010)
- Interview with Nobel Prize Laureates Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson
Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee
2007
- The challenge of self-governance in complex, globalizing economies: Collection of revised papers of a PhD seminar
Working Papers, University of Freiburg, Chair of Forestry Economics and Planning View citations (2)
- Trust in Private and Common Property Experiments
Experimental Economics Center Working Paper Series, Experimental Economics Center, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University View citations (5)
See also Journal Article Trust in Private and Common Property Experiments, Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons (2009) View citations (8) (2009)
2006
- Beyond Formality and Informality
Working Papers, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management View citations (31)
2004
- The Working Parts of Rules and How They May Evolve Over Time
Papers on Economics and Evolution, Philipps University Marburg, Department of Geography View citations (2)
- Understanding collective action
2020 vision briefs, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (2)
- What do people bring into the game: experiments in the field about cooperation in the commons
CAPRi working papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (89)
Also in Artefactual Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website (2004) View citations (93)
See also Journal Article What do people bring into the game? Experiments in the field about cooperation in the commons, Agricultural Systems, Elsevier (2004) View citations (104) (2004)
2003
- In pursuit of comparable concepts and data about collective action
CAPRi working papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (6)
See also Journal Article In pursuit of comparable concepts and data about collective action, Agricultural Systems, Elsevier (2004) View citations (20) (2004)
1994
- An institutional analysis approach: Findings from the NIIS on irrigation performance
IWMI Books, Reports, International Water Management Institute View citations (3)
- From farmers' fields to data fields and back: A Synthesis of Participatory Information Systems for Irrigation and other Resources: Proceedings of an International Workshop held at the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Rampur, Nepal, 21-26 March 1993
IWMI Books, Reports, International Water Management Institute
- Use of case studies and structural coding in a relational database for storage and analysis of irrigation institutions and systems in Nepal
IWMI Books, Reports, International Water Management Institute
1993
- Design principles and the performance of farmer-managed irrigation systems in Nepal
Conference Papers, International Water Management Institute View citations (4)
Undated
- Groundwater Irrigation in North India: Institutions and Markets
Working papers, The South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics
- Indigenous Communities, Cooperation, and Communication: Taking Experiments to the Field
Working papers, The South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics
Journal Articles
2020
- Elinor Ostrom Speaks about Property Rights
Journal of Private Enterprise, 2020, 35, (Fall 2020), 7-12
2019
- Grandfathering: Environmental Uses and Impacts
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2019, 13, (1), 23-42 View citations (11)
2016
- The Comparative Study of Public Economies
The American Economist, 2016, 61, (1), 91-107 
Also in The American Economist, 1998, 42, (1), 3-17 (1998) View citations (1)
2014
- A Polycentric Approach For Coping With Climate Change
Annals of Economics and Finance, 2014, 15, (1), 97-134 View citations (28)
See also Working Paper A Polycentric Approach for Coping with Climate Change, World Bank Publications - Reports (2010) View citations (1) (2010)
- Do institutions for collective action evolve?
Journal of Bioeconomics, 2014, 16, (1), 3-30 View citations (28)
2013
- Façonner des outils d’analyse pour étudier le changement institutionnel
Revue de la Régulation - Capitalisme, institutions, pouvoirs, 2013, 14 
See also Working Paper Façonner des outils d'analyse pour étudier le changement institutionnel, Post-Print (2013) View citations (3) (2013)
- Generalizing the core design principles for the efficacy of groups
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 90, (S), S21-S32 View citations (66)
- Provision versus Appropriation in Symmetric and Asymmetric Social Dilemmas
Southern Economic Journal, 2013, 79, (3), 496-512 View citations (10)
- Traditions et évolutions dans l’étude des communs
Revue de la Régulation - Capitalisme, institutions, pouvoirs, 2013, 14
2012
- Coevolving Relationships between Political Science and Economics
Rationality, Markets and Morals, 2012, 3, (54) View citations (3)
- In Memoriam
Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 2012, 42, (4), 708-709
- Nested externalities and polycentric institutions: must we wait for global solutions to climate change before taking actions at other scales?
Economic Theory, 2012, 49, (2), 353-369 View citations (83)
See also Chapter Nested Externalities and Polycentric Institutions: Must We Wait for Global Solutions to Climate Change Before Taking Actions at Other Scales?, Studies in Economic Theory, 2016, 259-276 (2016) (2016)
- Par-delà les marchés et les États. La gouvernance polycentrique des systèmes économiques complexes
Revue de l'OFCE, 2012, n° 120, (1), 13-72
2011
- Crafting analytical tools to study institutional change
Journal of Institutional Economics, 2011, 7, (3), 317-343 View citations (68)
- Dépasser le dilemme du Samaritain dans l'aide au développement. Overcoming the Samaritan's Dilemma in Development Aid
Revue d’économie du développement, 2011, 19, (4), 5-18
- Reflections on "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation"
American Economic Review, 2011, 101, (1), 49-63 View citations (21)
- Reprint of: A common-pool resource experiment with postgraduate subjects from 41 countries
Ecological Economics, 2011, 70, (9), 1580-1589 View citations (3)
2010
- A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action Presidential Address, American political Science Association, 1997
Public administration issues, 2010, (1), 5-52 
Also in American Political Science Review, 1998, 92, (1), 1-22 (1998) View citations (206)
- A common-pool resource experiment with postgraduate subjects from 41 countries
Ecological Economics, 2010, 69, (12), 2624-2633 View citations (11)
- Analyzing collective action
Agricultural Economics, 2010, 41, (s1), 155-166 View citations (75)
See also Working Paper ANALYZING COLLECTIVE ACTION, 2009 Conference, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China (2009) View citations (8) (2009)
- Analyzing the dynamic complexity of development interventions: lessons from an irrigation experiment in Nepal
Policy Sciences, 2010, 43, (1), 1-25 View citations (17)
- Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems
American Economic Review, 2010, 100, (3), 641-72 View citations (553)
See also Working Paper Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems, Nobel Prize in Economics documents (2009) View citations (88) (2009)
- Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems (Excerpt)
Transnational Corporations Review, 2010, 2, (2), 1-12
- Disturbance, response, and persistence in self-organized forested communities: Analysis of robustness and resilience in five communities in Southern Indiana
EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, 2010, 15, (4) View citations (17)
- Organizational economics: applications to metropolitan governance
Journal of Institutional Economics, 2010, 6, (1), 109-115 View citations (5)
- Revising theory in light of experimental findings
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2010, 73, (1), 68-72 View citations (14)
- ¿Teoría económica, ciencia política, teoría social? Lo que yo hago podría llamarse economía política o estudio de los dilemas sociales
Apuntes del Cenes, 2010
2009
- An Agenda for the Study of Institutions
Ekonomicheskaya Politika / Economic Policy, 2009, 6, 89-110 
Also in Public Choice, 1986, 48, (1), 3-25 (1986) View citations (119)
- Beyond the tragedy of the Commons
ECONOMICS AND POLICY OF ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 2009, LII, (1), 35-60 View citations (17)
- La reglas que no se hace cumplir son mera palabrería
Revista de Economía Institucional, 2009, 11, (21), 15-24
- Trust in Private and Common Property Experiments
Southern Economic Journal, 2009, 75, (4), 957-975 View citations (8)
See also Working Paper Trust in Private and Common Property Experiments, Experimental Economics Center Working Paper Series (2007) View citations (5) (2007)
2008
- Analyzing decentralized resource regimes from a polycentric perspective
Policy Sciences, 2008, 41, (1), 71-93 View citations (107)
- Deliberation, learning, and institutional change: the evolution of institutions in judicial settings
Constitutional Political Economy, 2008, 19, (3), 180-202 View citations (3)
- Fifteen Years of Empirical Research on Collective Action in Natural Resource Management: Struggling to Build Large-N Databases Based on Qualitative Research
World Development, 2008, 36, (1), 176-195 View citations (39)
- INSTITUTIONS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Economic Affairs, 2008, 28, (3), 24-31 View citations (47)
- TURFS in the lab: Institutional Innovation in Real-Time Dynamic Spatial Commons
Rationality and Society, 2008, 20, (4), 371-397 View citations (10)
2007
- Challenges and growth: the development of the interdisciplinary field of institutional analysis
Journal of Institutional Economics, 2007, 3, (3), 239-264 View citations (25)
- Graham R. Marshall, Economics for Collaborative Environmental Management: Renegotiating the Commons, Earthscan;, London (2005) ISBN: 1844070956171, 184 pp
Ecological Economics, 2007, 62, (3-4), 759-760
- Tenure alone is not sufficient: monitoring is essential
Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 2007, 8, (3), 175-199 View citations (12)
Also in Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 2007, 8, (3), 175-199 (2007) View citations (3)
2006
- The value-added of laboratory experiments for the study of institutions and common-pool resources
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2006, 61, (2), 149-163 View citations (138)
2005
- Local Enforcement and Better Forests
World Development, 2005, 33, (2), 273-284 View citations (109)
- Response to Zakir Husain and Rabindra Bhattacharya's "Common pool resources and contextual factors: Evolution of a fishermen's cooperative in Calcutta"
Ecological Economics, 2005, 55, (2), 139-142
2004
- In pursuit of comparable concepts and data about collective action
Agricultural Systems, 2004, 82, (3), 215-232 View citations (20)
See also Working Paper In pursuit of comparable concepts and data about collective action, CAPRi working papers (2003) View citations (6) (2003)
- Panarchy: understanding transformations in human and natural systems: Lance H. Gunderson and C.S. Holling (Eds.), Island Press, Washington, DC, 2002, ISBN: 1559638575, 450 pp
Ecological Economics, 2004, 49, (4), 488-491
- The Quest for Meaning in Public Choice
American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2004, 63, (1), 105-147 View citations (25)
- What do people bring into the game? Experiments in the field about cooperation in the commons
Agricultural Systems, 2004, 82, (3), 307-326 View citations (104)
See also Working Paper What do people bring into the game: experiments in the field about cooperation in the commons, CAPRi working papers (2004) View citations (89) (2004)
- ¿Qué traen las personas al juego? Experimentos de campo sobre la cooperación en los recursos de uso común
Revista Desarrollo y Sociedad, 2004
2003
- Heterogeneous Preferences and Collective Action
Public Choice, 2003, 117, (3-4), 295-314 View citations (26)
- How Types of Goods and Property Rights Jointly Affect Collective Action
Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2003, 15, (3), 239-270 View citations (28)
- Playing safe in coordination games:: the roles of risk dominance, payoff dominance, and history of play
Games and Economic Behavior, 2003, 42, (2), 281-299 View citations (111)
2002
- The Dynamics of Rules: Change in Written Organizational Codes. By James G. March, Martin Schulz, and Xueguang Zhou. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 228p. $55.00 cloth, $24.95 paper
American Political Science Review, 2002, 96, (4), 827-828
- The evolution of norms within institutions: comments on Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich's, ‘Population, development, and human nature’
Environment and Development Economics, 2002, 7, (1), 171-190 View citations (1)
2001
- Collective Action, Property Rights, and Decentralization in Resource Use in India and Nepal
Politics & Society, 2001, 29, (4), 485-514 View citations (125)
- Cooperation in PD Games: Fear, Greed, and History of Play
Public Choice, 2001, 106, (1-2), 137-55 View citations (76)
- Dilemma games: game parameters and matching protocols
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2001, 46, (4), 357-377 View citations (21)
- The Contested Role of Heterogeneity in Collective Action: Some Evidence from Community Forestry in Nepal
World Development, 2001, 29, (5), 747-765 View citations (156)
2000
- Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2000, 14, (3), 137-158 View citations (955)
- The concept of scale and the human dimensions of global change: a survey
Ecological Economics, 2000, 32, (2), 217-239 View citations (112)
- The power and limitations of proportional cutbacks in common-pool resources
Journal of Development Economics, 2000, 62, (2), 515-533 View citations (13)
- Titles, Conflict, and Land Use: The Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier. By Lee J. Alston, Gary D. Libecap, and Bernardo Mueller. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 227. $49.50
The Journal of Economic History, 2000, 60, (4), 1149-1150
1999
- Human-ecosystem interactions: a dynamic integrated model
Ecological Economics, 1999, 31, (2), 227-242 View citations (5)
- RECIPROCITY, TRUST, AND THE SENSE OF CONTROL
Rationality and Society, 1999, 11, (1), 27-46 View citations (39)
- Scale misperceptions and the spatial dynamics of a social-ecological system
Ecological Economics, 1999, 31, (2), 243-257 View citations (13)
1997
- Legal and Political Conditions of Water Resource Development
Land Economics, 1997, 48, (1), 1-14 View citations (2)
1996
- Crossing the great divide: Coproduction, synergy, and development
World Development, 1996, 24, (6), 1073-1087 View citations (219)
- Privatizing Public Lands. By Scott Lehmann. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 248p. $45.00
American Political Science Review, 1996, 90, (1), 196-196
1995
- A Grammar of Institutions
American Political Science Review, 1995, 89, (3), 582-600 View citations (179)
- Development betrayed. The end of progress and a coevolutionary revisioning of the future: Richard B. Norgaard. Routledge, London. Hardback [UK pound]40.00, ISBN 0415 06861 4, Paperback [UK pound]12.99, ISBN 0 415 0682 2
Ecological Economics, 1995, 12, (3), 251-252 View citations (1)
- New Horizons in Institutional Analysis - Health Politics: Interests and Institutions in Western Europe. By Ellen M. Immergut. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 336p. $49.95. - Institutions and Social Conflict. By Jack Knight. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 234p. $59.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. - Governments at Work: Canadian Parliamentary Federalism and Its Public Policy Effects. By Mark Sproule-Jones. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. 291p. $45.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. - Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis. Edited by Sven Steinmo, Kathleen Thelen, and Frank Longstreth. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 257p. $54.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. - Do Institutions Matter? Government Capabilities in the United States and Abroad. Edited by R. Kent Weaver and Bert A. Rockman. Washington: Brookings, 1993. 498p. $36.95 cloth, $16.95 paper
American Political Science Review, 1995, 89, (1), 174-178
- Self-organization and Social Capital
Industrial and Corporate Change, 1995, 4, (1), 131-59 View citations (11)
1994
- 1. Introduction
Journal of Theoretical Politics, 1994, 6, (4), 403-428
- 6. Constituting Social Capital and Collective Action
Journal of Theoretical Politics, 1994, 6, (4), 527-562 View citations (9)
1993
- Coping with Asymmetries in the Commons: Self-Governing Irrigation Systems Can Work
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1993, 7, (4), 93-112 View citations (155)
- Learning from Gal Oya: Possibilities for Participatory Development and Post-Newtonian Social Science. By Norman Uphoff. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. 448p. $34.50
American Political Science Review, 1993, 87, (2), 537-537
1992
- Community and the Endogenous Solution of Commons Problems
Journal of Theoretical Politics, 1992, 4, (3), 343-351 View citations (3)
- Covenants with and without a Sword: Self-Governance Is Possible
American Political Science Review, 1992, 86, (2), 404-417 View citations (906)
- Institutions and Common-Pool Resources
Journal of Theoretical Politics, 1992, 4, (3), 243-245 View citations (1)
- Property-Rights Regimes and Natural Resources: A Conceptual Analysis
Land Economics, 1992, 68, (3), 249-262 View citations (476)
1991
- Crime and Punishment: Further Reflections on the Counterintuitive Results of Mixed Equilibria Games
Journal of Theoretical Politics, 1991, 3, (3), 343-350 View citations (4)
- Rational Choice Theory and Institutional Analysis: Toward Complementarity
American Political Science Review, 1991, 85, (1), 237-243 View citations (20)
- Rules and Games
Public Choice, 1991, 70, (2), 121-49 View citations (17)
1990
- Rent dissipation in a limited-access common-pool resource: Experimental evidence
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1990, 19, (3), 203-211 View citations (128)
- Response to Comments by Anthony Scott and Gary Libecap
Rationality and Society, 1990, 2, (1), 117-117
- The Nature of Common-Pool Resource Problems
Rationality and Society, 1990, 2, (3), 335-358 View citations (60)
1989
- Microconstitutional Change in Multiconstitutional Political Systems
Rationality and Society, 1989, 1, (1), 11-50 View citations (11)
- Note from the Editors
Journal of Theoretical Politics, 1989, 1, (1), 5-6
1985
- AN ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE ON DEMOCRATIC DILEMMAS
Review of Policy Research, 1985, 4, (3), 412-416 View citations (3)
- Institutional Capacity And The Resolution Of A Commons Dilemma
Review of Policy Research, 1985, 5, (2), 383-394 View citations (16)
1983
- Collective Action. By Russell Hardin. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. Pp. xvi + 248. $24.00, cloth; $9.00, paper.)
American Political Science Review, 1983, 77, (3), 839-840
1979
- Modeling the Criminal Justice System. Edited by Stuart S. Nagel. (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1977. Pp. 319. $17.50, cloth; $7.50, paper.)
American Political Science Review, 1979, 73, (1), 252-252
1977
- Book Review: Municipal Output and Performance in New York City
Urban Studies, 1977, 14, (3), 393-394
1973
- On the meaning and measurement of output and efficiency in the provision of urban police services
Journal of Criminal Justice, 1973, 1, (2), 93-111 View citations (8)
1968
- Some postulated effects of learning on constitutional behavior
Public Choice, 1968, 5, (1), 87-104 View citations (4)
1965
- A Behavioral Approach to the Study of Intergovernmental Relations
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1965, 359, (1), 137-146 View citations (1)
Books
2015
- Governing the Commons
Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (110)
2011
- Improving Irrigation in Asia
Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (7)
2005
- The Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid
OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (106)
Edited books
2007
- Linking the Formal and Informal Economy: Concepts and Policies
OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (9)
2003
- Foundations of Social Capital
Books, Edward Elgar Publishing
1994
- From farmers' fields to data fields and back: A Synthesis of Participatory Information Systems for Irrigation and other Resources: Proceedings of an International Workshop held at the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Rampur, Nepal, 21-26 March 1993
IWMI Books, International Water Management Institute View citations (1)
Chapters
2016
- Nested Externalities and Polycentric Institutions: Must We Wait for Global Solutions to Climate Change Before Taking Actions at Other Scales?
Springer
See also Journal Article Nested externalities and polycentric institutions: must we wait for global solutions to climate change before taking actions at other scales?, Springer (2012) View citations (83) (2012)
2010
- Private and Common Property Rights
Chapter 4 in Property Law and Economics, 2010 View citations (5)
- The Challenge of Crafting Rules to Change Open-Access Resources into Managed Resources
Palgrave Macmillan
2009
- A Century of Institutions and Ecology in East Africa’s Rangelands: Linking Institutional Robustness with the Ecological Resilience of Kenya’s Maasailand
Springer View citations (4)
- Building Trust to Solve Commons Dilemmas: Taking Small Steps to Test an Evolving Theory of Collective Action
Springer View citations (22)
- The Contribution of Community Institutions to Environmental Problem-Solving
Chapter 4 in Governing the Environment, 2009
2008
- Doing Institutional Analysis: Digging Deeper than Markets and Hierarchies
Springer View citations (8)
Also in Springer (2005) View citations (37)
2006
- Governing Social-Ecological Systems
Chapter 30 in Handbook of Computational Economics, 2006, vol. 2, pp 1465-1509 View citations (54)
2004
- Communication and Co-operation in a Common-Pool Resource Dilemma: A Field Experiment
Palgrave Macmillan View citations (17)
2002
- Common-pool resources and institutions: Toward a revised theory
Chapter 24 in Handbook of Agricultural Economics, 2002, vol. 2, Part 1, pp 1315-1339 View citations (33)
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