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Teks Lengkap
Elinor Ostrom
Princeton University Press: Princeton,NJ, 2005, 365pp, index, Price: £17.95 (paperback).
In this book, Elinor Ostrom lays out in detail the results of her more than 20 years of work with Vincent Ostrom and other colleagues on institutions dealing with common pool resources. The book's purpose is a careful presentation of the analytical framework ('a detailed multilevel taxonomy') they have developed to examine these issues, which they call the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework. Most of the chapters, some of which are co-authored with Sue Crawford, are devoted to developing a finely detailed grammar for describing and analysing institutional situations and characteristics. In addition to a literature review, one chapter describes the range of rule types that have been found to work in practice and contrasts these with those commonly found in the policy literature.
The IAD framework has a lot in common with a general game theoretic approach to the public goods problem. The difference between the two approaches is that while the general game theory (GT) framework presents a universal model of rational behaviour, the IAD approach sets out a universal framework or set of components, relevant for the analysis of all common property situations. With this framework in hand, the author hopes that researchers will be able more consistently to dissect complex processes into specific, identified parts for comparison and analysis, and move beyond the existing confusion about the role of...