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Type:
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Working Paper |
Author:
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Ostrom, Vincent |
Date:
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1988 |
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Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN |
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Working Paper, no. W88-3 |
URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7455
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Theory |
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Subject(s):
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Workshop institutional analysis--IAD framework
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Abstract:
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From p. 3-4:
"...In an effort to frame the problem of doing institutional analysis and undertaking institutional development, I shall press back to the most fundamental patterns of adaptations that contribute to human potentials for development... The critical problems are those associated with complexity. I shall advance the thesis that an important variable affecting potentials for development is self-organizing capabilities which allow for autonomous development and self-governing capabilities in systems of order that manifest increasing complexity. This places a substantial burden upon those who exercise entrepreneurial responsibilities in both the public and private sectors. They need to know how to fashion the architecture of self-governing institutions functioning in complex systems of governance. After first exploring the human condition and its development potentials, I shall, second, examine the nature of institutions and their relationship to self-organizing capabilities. I shall then explore the task of framing modes of analysis that can be used both for institutional analysis and institutional development."
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