Elinor Ostrom

Elinor Ostrom ( born August 7, 1933, Los Angeles as Elinor Claire Awan, † June 12, 2012 in Bloomington, Indiana) was an American professor of political science at Indiana University in Bloomington. It counts with her husband Vincent Ostrom of the founders of the Bloomington School.

2009 she was awarded the first wife of Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Oliver E. Williamson, together with. Ostrom has shown " how common property can be successfully managed by user associations ", according to the assessment of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

  • 3.1 Awards
  • 3.2 Commemorative

Career

Elinor Ostrom studied political science at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA) and completed after the Bachelor of Arts (BA, 1954) and a Master of Arts (MA, 1962) where her studies in 1965 with the PhD from. In her doctoral thesis, Public Entrepreneurship: A Case Study in Ground Water Basin Management, she analyzed strategies, wanted to solve by means of which public companies the problem of salt water contamination of groundwater in Los Angeles.

In 1973 she co-founded with her husband Vincent Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and the Policy Analysis at Indiana University in Bloomington, who is regarded as one of the most important centers for Allmendestudien world. In 2006 she founded the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity (CSID ) at Arizona State University as a sister institute of the workshop. International co-operation exist particularly with the Center for Interdisciplinary Research ( ZiF ) in Bielefeld and the Agriculture and Horticulture, Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, as well as with the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics in Stockholm, Sweden.

Work

Ostrom was recognized worldwide as a leading researcher in the field of environmental economics. They grappled with the question of how people can interact in a sustainable and ecosystems. Content, they dealt inter alia with the fishing industry, with irrigation systems, with woodland and pasture management, in later works also with the knowledge and the problem of intellectual property.

Ostrom's research dealt with the question of how to organize people to solve complex problems jointly. They analyzed how institutional rules affect actions of individuals who are exposed to certain incentives, meet (have to) and also influence nor mutually decisions, and she showed viable, equitable and efficient solutions to these problems.

Governing the Commons (1990 )

She became internationally known, especially with her book Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (1990 ), in which they deal with problems of collective action for scarce natural resources that are shared ( common lands ) busy. She came to the conclusion that an appropriate and sustainable management of local Allmen Dere sources in many cases an institutionalized local cooperation of those affected is superior to both state control and privatization.

In an institutional economics approach, they turned out two separate problems, one for the use and secondly, the provision of resources concerning ( appropriation and deployment problem). Based on the analysis of numerous individual cases worldwide, such as regional farming systems for high mountain pastures in Switzerland and Japan, as well as irrigation systems in Spain and the Philippines, she points to successful and failed examples of the sustainable management of local Allmen Dere sources in self-organization.

As a summary of their research Ostrom identified the following principles for successful solutions of local Allmendeproblemen:

Ostrom has succeeded with this book, to illustrate the complexity of solutions satisfying local resource issues and the inadequacy of simple recipes. What is shown without a doubt, is that there are problems von Allmen Dere resources that could be solved even without privatization of these resources and without a central government arranged from above solution.

Honors

Awards

  • Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, announced on 12 October 2009, awarded on 10 December 2009
  • Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award, APSA, Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations Section, 2009
  • Reimar Lüst Award for International Scholarly and Cultural Exchange from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation
  • Jonathan M. Table Prize for Civic Engagement Research, Tufts University, Medford, MA, March 5, 2009
  • Honorary Doctorate, Engineering and Natural Sciences University of Norway, Trondheim, Norway, 2008
  • Galbraith Award, American Agricultural Economics Association, 2008
  • Honorary Doctorate, McGill University, Montreal, 2008
  • William H. Riker Prize in Political Science, University of Rochester, 2008
  • Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philadelphia, 2008
  • Beijer Fellow, The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm, Sweden, 2007
  • Honorary Doctorate, Humboldt University of Berlin, 2007
  • Honorary Doctorate in memory of Carl Linnaeus, Uppsala University, Sweden, 2007
  • Cozzarelli Prize, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006
  • APSA, Political Economy Section, William Riker Award for Best Book on Political Economy, APSA, Political Economy Section, 2006
  • Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2006
  • Member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 2006
  • James Madison Award, American Political Science Association, 2005
  • Sustainability Science Award, Ecological Society of America, 2005
  • Honorary Doctorate, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, 2005
  • John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Sciences, 2004
  • Lifetime Achievement Award, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, 2003
  • Honorary Doctorate, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, 2002
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Elected September 2001
  • Appointment to the National Academy of Sciences 2001
  • Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award for Governing the Commons, APSA Public Policy Section, 2000
  • Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, University of Uppsala, 1999
  • Honorary Doctorate in Economics, University of Zurich, 1999
  • Thomas R. Dye Service Award for outstanding service to the Policy Studies Organization, 1997
  • Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy, 1997
  • President of the American Political Science Association in 1996/97
  • Miriam Mills Award for being on outstanding woman in the field of policy studies, Policy Studies Organization, 1996
  • Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for excellence in the field of international environmental affairs for Governing the Commons, International Studies Association, 1992
  • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991
  • Donald Campbell Award for outstanding methodological innovator in public on policy studies, Policy Studies Organization, 1986
  • 1982-84 President of the Public Choice Society

Commemorative

  • Peter J. Boettke (Ed.): Polycentric Political Economy. Essays in honor of Elinor Ostrom and Vincent. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2004 ( special issue of the Journal of economic behavior & organization 57).

Publications

  • What is more, if we share. The social value of the commons (PDF, 387 kB). With Silke Helfrich (Ed.), Oekom Verlag, Munich, 2011. ISBN 978-3-86581-251-3
  • Commons management - a perspective for civic engagement [ Governing a Commons from a Citizen's Perspective]. In: Silke Helfrich / Heinrich Böll Foundation ( eds): For Whom the world belongs to? About the rediscovery of the commons, p 218-228, Oekom Verlag, Munich, 2009. ISBN 978-3-86581-133-2
  • Understanding Knowledge as a Commons. From Theory to Practice. With Charlotte Hess ( ed.), The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2007 ISBN 0-262-08357-4
  • Trust and Reciprocity. Interdisciplinary Lessons for Experimental Research. ( Elinor Ostrom and James Walker ( eds ): Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust, Volume 6 ). Russell Sage Foundation, New York 2003, ISBN 0-87154-647-7
  • A Grammar of Institutions. With Sue ES Crawford, in: Elinor Ostrom (ed.): Understanding Institutional Diversity. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 2005, pp. 137-174. Originally published in: American Political Science Review. Volume 89, No. 3, September 1995, pp. 582-600. Reprinted in: Michael McGinnis (ed.): Polycentric Games and Institutions. Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2000, pp. 114-155, ISBN 0-472-06714-1
  • Rules, Games, and Common - Pool Resources. By James Walker and R. Gardner, Michigan University Press, Ann Arbor 1994. ISBN 0-472-06546-7
  • Institutional Incentives and Sustainable Development. Infrastructure Policies in Perspective. With Larry Schroeder and Susan Wynne, Westview Press, Boulder 1993, ISBN 0-8133-1619-7
  • Crafting Institutions for Self - Governing Irrigation Systems. ICS Press, San Francisco 1992, ISBN 1-55815-168-0
  • Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990, ISBN 0-521-40599-8 Dt: . Governing the Commons: beyond state and market. Mohr, Tübingen, 1999, ISBN 3-16-146916- X
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