Reflections on Vincent Ostrom, Public Administration, and Polycentricity

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: McGinnis, Michael D.; Ostrom, Elinor
• 署名单位: Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02488.x
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 15-25
• 关键词: metropolitan governance; CHOICE; institutions; GOVERNMENT; ECONOMY; state

摘要

Among Vincent Ostrom's many contributions to the study of public administration, policy, and political science, the concept of polycentricity remains his single most important legacy. This essay locates the origins of this concept in Ostrom's early research on resource management in the Western United States and demonstrates its continuing influence throughout The Intellectual Crisis in Public Administration, The Political Theory of a Compound Republic, and his other major publications. Although typically pigeonholed within the confines of the public choice tradition, Ostrom's body of work should be widely appreciated as an early statement of the critical importance of network forms of governance in democratic societies.