Commons & Governance

Shared resources a group collectively sustains, and how they are governed, enclosed or made illegible: institutions for collective action, structurelessness, and the politics of who sets the rules.

Papers (5)

• Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems (Ostrom, 2010)
• Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Ostrom, 1990)
• Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Scott, 1998)
• The Tyranny of Structurelessness (Freeman, 1972)
• Analysis of the Iridium 33-Cosmos 2251 Collision (Kelso, 2009)