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- The Cambridge Handbook of Commons Research Innovations
- The Cambridge Handbook of Commons Research Innovations
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Revisiting the Origins and Evolution of Commons Thought
- Part II Averting New Tragedies
- Part III New Forms of Contested Commons
- Part IV Urban Landscape and Infrastructure as a Commons
- Part V Reassessing Old and New Institutions for Collective Action
- 13 Business Improvement Districts and the Urban Commons
- 14 To Have and To Hold? Community Land Trust as Commons
- 15 Ostromian Logic Applied to Civil Society Organizations and the Rules That Shape Them
- 16 A Conceptual Model of Polycentric Resource Governance in the 2030 District Energy Program
- Part VI Managing and Restoring the Commons
- Part VII Law, Legal Theory, and the Commons
- Part VIII Technology, the Internet, and the Future of Commons Governance
- Index
15 - Ostromian Logic Applied to Civil Society Organizations and the Rules That Shape Them
from Part V - Reassessing Old and New Institutions for Collective Action
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 October 2021
- The Cambridge Handbook of Commons Research Innovations
- The Cambridge Handbook of Commons Research Innovations
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Revisiting the Origins and Evolution of Commons Thought
- Part II Averting New Tragedies
- Part III New Forms of Contested Commons
- Part IV Urban Landscape and Infrastructure as a Commons
- Part V Reassessing Old and New Institutions for Collective Action
- 13 Business Improvement Districts and the Urban Commons
- 14 To Have and To Hold? Community Land Trust as Commons
- 15 Ostromian Logic Applied to Civil Society Organizations and the Rules That Shape Them
- 16 A Conceptual Model of Polycentric Resource Governance in the 2030 District Energy Program
- Part VI Managing and Restoring the Commons
- Part VII Law, Legal Theory, and the Commons
- Part VIII Technology, the Internet, and the Future of Commons Governance
- Index
Summary
This chapter applies the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) Framework conceived by Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom in 1990 to the institutional arrangements that structure and organize the operating environments for civil society organizations (CSOs). We begin by defining what is meant by “civil society” and “CSOs,” and highlighting their essential attributes, followed by a discussion of the importance of the legal and regulatory frameworks that underlie the existence and operations of CSOs. We then briefly review Garett Hardin’s “Tragedy of the Commons” thesis before discussing the role of CSOs in preventing such tragedies from emerging. After presenting the types of rules that inform every IAD action situation and applying them to the existing research on CSO laws, we conclude by reconceptualizing CSO regulatory regimes through the lens of Ostrom’s IAD framework and analysis.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Commons Research Innovations , pp. 176 - 187Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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