Resilience in Public Administration: The Work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom from a Public Administration Perspective

摘要

Elinor Ostrom's message was clear: a combination of genuine embarrassment about all of the attention, recognition, prizes, rewards, and honors individually bestowed on her in recent years-and much more was soon to follow. However, her admiration of and gratitude for Vincent Ostrom's substantial intellectual contribution to the production, quality, and development of her own work made Elinor's willingness to cooperate on this review contingent on the author's promise to give full credit to the fruitful 50-year intellectual partnership that she considers part and parcel of, if not the key to, the development of her own successful scholarship and academic career. The author was happy to comply. Much of Elinor Ostrom's current audience and readership in public administration will associate her work with her vigorous interest in and rigorous treatment of the analysis of small-scale, self-regulatory systems, particularly in the domain of such natural resources as fisheries, forests, pastures, or water resource systems. Even for the outsider, publication of the book Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action represents a remarkable academic story with invaluable intellectual and practical impacts.