Institutional Rational Choice: An Assessment of the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework

Authors

Elinor Ostrom

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2007

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Theories of the Policy Process

Publisher

Westview Press

First Page

21

Last Page

64

Editor

PA Sabatier

Abstract

When Paul Sabatier asked me to do an assessment of institutional rational choice, I responded that the field was too big for one person to do an assessment of all the work that might be covered by the term. Instead of trying an assessment of such a broad array of literature, I focus more specifically on the institutional analysis and development (IAD) framework that has evolved out of the work of many colleagues at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University. Undertaking an overview and assessment of the IAD framework proves to be quite a challenge in 2006 given all of the attention paid to it in recent years.

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Recommended Citation

Ostrom, E. 2007. Institutional rational choice: An assessment of the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework. In Theories of the Policy Process, 2nd ed., P.A. Sabatier (ed.). Cambridge, MA: Westview Press.