Top 11 Elinor Ostrom Quotes
#1. What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people involved - versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.
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#2. Organizing is a process; an organization is the result of that process.
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#3. Little by little, bit by bit, family by family, so much good can be done on so many levels
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#4. The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.
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#5. Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.
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#6. As long as a single center has a monopoly on the use of coercion, one has a state rather than a self-governed society.
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#7. Scientific knowledge is as much an understanding of the diversity of situations for which a theory or its models are relevant as an understanding of its limits.
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#8. In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements.
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#9. There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right.
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#10. Driven by a concern with institutions, we re-enter the world of the behavioralists. But we do so not in protest against the notion of rational choice, but rather in an effort to understand how rationality on the part of individuals leads to coherence at the level of society. (Bates 1988, p. 399)
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