Elinor Ostrom is Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, Indiana University. She mainly focus on how do we integrate the research findings in cognitive science into a workable set of models for exploring and explaining human choices in various institutional settings, including: social dilemmas, collective choice arenas, bureaucracies, and complex multitiered public economies, how do institutions generate the information that individuals need to make decisions, what biases or lack of biases are built into various ways of making collective decisions and how are diverse preferences exaggerated or modified by interaction within diverse institutional structures.
Below you can find some representative publications
Ostrom, Elinor (1990). Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Ostrom, Elinor (1992). Crafting Institutions for Self-Gover ning Irrigation Systems.
San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies.
Ostrom, E., Schroeder, L. & Wynne, S. (1993). Institutional Incentives and Sustainable Development:Infrastructure Policies in Perspective. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Ostrom, E., Walker, J. & Gardner, R. (1994). Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
