NOTE: The following books are available directly from the publisher indicated.
Cole, Daniel H., and Elinor Ostrom, eds. 2012. Property in Land and Other Resources. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Available as an eBook through Amazon for Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Property-Land-Other-Resources-ebook/dp/B006UNGLP4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1326769807&sr=8-2
Craiutu, Aurelian. 2012. A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748–1830. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Ostrom, Vincent. 2012. The Quest to Understand Human Affairs: Essays on Collective, Constitutional, and Epistemic Choice, volume 2. Edited by Barbara Allen. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. {Discount Order Form}
Ostrom, Elinor. 2011. Was mehr wird, wenn wir teilen: Vom Gesellschaftlichen wert der Gemeingüter. Edited and translated by Silke Helfrich. Munich: Oekom Verlag.
Ostrom, Elinor, Wai Fung Lam, Prachanda Pradhan, and Ganesh Shivakoti. 2011. Improving Irrigation in Asia: Sustainable Performance of an Innovative Intervention in Nepal. Edward Elgar.
Ostrom, Vincent. 2011. The Quest to Understand Human Affairs: Natural Resources Policy and Essays on Community and Collective Choice, volume 1. Edited by Barbara Allen. Lexington Books. {Discount Order Form}
Poteete, Amy R., Marco A. Janssen, and Elinor Ostrom. 2010. Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice. Princeton University Press.
Sabetti, Filippo. 2010. Civilization and Self-Government: The Political Thought of Carlo Cattaneo. Lexington Books.
Aligica, Paul Dragos, and Peter Boettke. 2009. Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School. Routledge.
Andersson, Krister, Gustavo Gordillo de Anda, and Frank van Laerhoven. 2009. Local Governments and Rural Development: Comparing Lessons from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru. University of Arizona Press.
Craiutu, Aurelian, and Sheldon Gellar, eds. 2009. Conversations with Tocqueville: The Global Democratic Revolution in the Twenty-First Century. Lexington Books.
Polski, Margaret. 2009. Wired for Survival: The Rational (and Irrational) Choices We Make, from the Gas Pump to Terrorism. Pearson Education, FT Press.
Sabetti, Filippo, Barbara Allen, and Mark Sproule-Jones, eds. 2009. The Practice of Constitutional Development: Vincent Ostrom’s Quest to Understand Human Affairs. Lexington Books.
Brondizio, Eduardo. 2008. The Amazonian Caboclo and the Açai Palm: Forest Farmers in the Global Market. New York Botanical Garden Press.
Ostrom, Vincent. 2008. The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration. 3rd ed. University of Alabama Press.
Ostrom, Vincent. 2008. The Political Theory of a Compound Republic: Designing the American Experiment. 3rd ed. Lexington Books.
Razo, Armando. 2008. Social Foundations of Limited Dictatorship: Networks and Private Protection During Mexico’s Early Industrialization. Stanford University Press.
Schlager, Edella, and William Blomquist. 2008. Embracing Watershed Politics. University Press of Colorado.
Sproule-Jones, Mark, Barbara Allen, and Filippo Sabetti, eds. 2008. The Struggle to Constitute and Sustain Productive Orders: Vincent Ostrom’s Quest to Understand Human Affairs. Lexington Books.
Sproule-Jones, Mark, Carolyn Johns, and B. Timothy Heinmiller, eds. 2008. Canadian Water Politics: Conflict and Institutions. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Tucker, Catherine M. 2008. Changing Forests: Collective Action, Common Property, and Coffee in Honduras. Springer.
Webb, Edward, and Ganesh Shivakoti, eds. 2008. Decentralization, Forests and Rural Communities: Policy Outcomes in South and Southeast Asia. Sage India.
Hess, Charlotte, and Elinor Ostrom, eds. 2007. Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice. MIT Press.
Kurian, Mathew, and Ton Dietz. 2007. Hydro-Logic: Poverty, Heterogeneity and Cooperation on the Commons. Macmillan India.
Mwangi, Esther. 2007. Socioeconomic Change and Land Use in Africa: The Transformation of Property Rights in Maasailand. Palgrave Macmillan.
Sissenich, Beate. 2007. Building States without Society: European Union Enlargement and the Transfer of EU Social Policy to Poland and Hungary. Lexington Books.
Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb, Ravi Kanbur, and Elinor Ostrom, eds. 2006. Linking the Formal and Informal Economy: Concepts and Policies. Oxford University Press. (Paperback published in 2007.)
Lutz, Donald S. 2006. Principles of Constitutional Design. Cambridge University Press.
Prakash, Aseem, and Matthew Potoski. 2006. The Voluntary Environmentalists: Green Clubs, ISO 14001, and Voluntary Environmental Regulations. Cambridge University Press.
Agrawal, Arun. 2005. Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects. Duke University Press.
Allen, Barbara. 2005. Tocqueville, Covenant, and the Democratic Revolution: Harmonizing Earth with Heaven. Lexington Books.
Andersson, Krister. 2005. Cómo Hacer Funcionar la Gestión Forestal Municipal? Evidencia de Bolivia. Plural Editores.
Eggertsson, Thráinn. 2005. Imperfect Institutions: Possibilities and Limits of Reform. University of Michigan Press.
Gellar, Sheldon. 2005. Democracy in Senegal: Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan.
Gibson, Clark, Krister Andersson, Elinor Ostrom, and Sujai Shivakumar. 2005. The Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid. Oxford University Press.
Merino, Leticia, and Jim Robson, eds. 2005. Managing the Commons: Markets, Commodity Chains and Certification. Mexico: CCMSS, The Christensen Fund, Ford Foundation, SEMARNAT, INE.
Merino, Leticia, and Jim Robson, eds. 2005. Managing the Commons: Conservation of Biodiversity. Mexico: CCMSS, The Christensen Fund, Ford Foundation, SEMARNAT, INE.
Merino, Leticia, and Jim Robson, eds. 2005. Managing the Commons: Indigenous Rights, Economic Development and Identity. Mexico: CCMSS, The Christensen Fund, Ford Foundation, SEMARNAT, INE.
Merino, Leticia, and Jim Robson, eds. 2005. Managing the Commons: Payment for Environmental Services. Mexico: CCMSS, The Christensen Fund, Ford Foundation, SEMARNAT, INE.
Moran, Emilio, and Elinor Ostrom, eds. 2005. Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Human-Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems. MIT Press.
Olson, Laura, Sue Crawford, and Melissa Deckman. 2005. Women with a Mission: Religion, Gender, and the Politics of Women Clergy. University of Alabama Press.
Ørebech, Peter, Fred Bosselman, Jes Bjarup, David Callies, Martin Chanock, and Hanne Petersen. 2005. The Role of Customary Law in Sustainable Development. Cambridge University Press.
Ostrom, Elinor. 2005. Understanding Institutional Diversity. Princeton University Press.
Raadschelders, Jos C.N., ed. 2005. The Institutional Arrangements for Water Management in the 19th and 20th Centuries. IOS Press.
Sawyer, Amos. 2005. Beyond Plunder: Toward Democratic Governance in Liberia. Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Shivakoti, Ganesh, Douglas Vermillion, Wai Fung Lam, Elinor Ostrom, Ujjwal Pradhan, and Robert Yoder, eds. 2005. Asian Irrigation in Transition: Responding to Challenges. Sage Publications.
Shivakumar, Sujai. 2005. The Constitution of Development: Crafting Capabilities for Self-Governance. Palgrave Macmillan.
Auer, Matthew, ed. 2004. Restoring Cursed Earth: Appraising Environmental Policy Reforms in Eastern Europe and Russia. Rowman & Littlefield.
Blomquist, William, Edella Schlager, and Tanya Heikkila. 2004. Common Waters, Diverging Streams: Linking Institutions and Water Management in Arizona, California, and Colorado. Resources for the Future.
Ghate, Rucha. 2004. Uncommons in the Commons: Community Initiated Forest Resource Management. New Delhi, India: Concept Publishing.
Merino Pérez, Leticia. 2004. Conservación o Deterioro: El Impacto de las Politicas Públicas en las Instituciones Comunitarias y en los Usos de los Bosques en Mexico (Conservation or Deterioration: The Impact of Public Policy on Community Institutions and on the Uses of Forests in Mexico). Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Ecologia.
Olowu, Dele, and James Wunsch. 2004. Local Governance in Africa: The Challenges of Democratic Decentralization. Lynne Rienner.
Acheson, James. 2003. Capturing the Commons: Devising Institutions to Manage the Main Lobster Industry. University Press of New England.
Dolsak, Nives, and Elinor Ostrom, eds. 2003. The Commons in the New Millennium: Challenges and Adaptations. MIT Press.
Duany, Julia Aker. 2003. Making Peace & Nurturing Life: A Memoir of an African Woman about a Journey of Struggle and Hope. AuthorHouse.
Obolonsky, Alexander. 2003. The Drama of Russian Political History. Texas A&M University.
Ostrom, Elinor, and T. K. Ahn, eds. 2003. Foundations of Social Capital. Edward Elgar. Paperback edition published in 2010.
Ostrom, Elinor, and James Walker, eds. 2003. Trust and Reciprocity: Interdisciplinary Lessons from Experimental Research. Russell Sage Foundation.
Ayo, S. Bamidele. 2002. Public Administration and the Conduct of Community Affairs among the Yoruba in Nigeria. ICS Press (available from the Workshop).
Koontz, Tomas M. 2002. Federalism in the Forest: National versus State Natural Resource Policy. Georgetown University Press.
National Research Council. 2002. The Drama of the Commons. Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change. Elinor Ostrom, Thomas Dietz, Nives Dolsak, Paul C. Stern, Susan Stonich, and Elke Weber, eds. National Academies Press.
Ostrom, Elinor, Clark Gibson, Sujai Shivakumar, and Krister Andersson. 2002. Aid, Incentives, and Sustainability: An Institutional Analysis of Development Cooperation. MAIN REPORT. Sida Studies in Evaluation # 02/01. Stockholm, Sweden: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). Report available online.
Ostrom, Elinor, Clark Gibson, Sujai Shivakumar, and Krister Andersson. 2002. Aid, Incentives, and Sustainability: An Institutional Analysis of Development Cooperation. SUMMARY REPORT. Sida Studies in Evaluation # 02/01:1. Stockholm, Sweden: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). Report available online
Sabetti, Filippo. 2002. The Search for Good Government: Understanding the Paradox of Italian Democracy. McGill-Queen's University Press.
Sabetti, Filippo. 2002. Village Politics and the Mafia in Sicily. 2nd ed. McGill-Queen's University Press.
Shivakoti, Ganesh P., and Elinor Ostrom, eds. 2002. Improving Irrigation Governance and Management in Nepal. ICS Press (available from the Workshop).
Bickers, Kenneth N., and John T. Williams. 2001. Public Policy Analysis. Houghton Mifflin.
Burger, Joanna, Elinor Ostrom, Richard B. Norgaard, David Policansky, and Bernard D. Goldstein, eds. 2001. Protecting the Commons: A Framework for Resource Management in the Americas. Island Press.
Costanza, Robert, Bobbi S. Low, Elinor Ostrom, and James Wilson, eds. 2001. Institutions, Ecosystems, and Sustainability. Lewis Publishers.
McGinnis, Michael, and John T. Williams. 2001. Compound Dilemmas: Democracy, Collective Action, and Superpower Rivalry. University of Michigan Press.
Gibson, Clark, Margaret McKean, and Elinor Ostrom, eds. 2000. People and Forests: Communities, Institutions, and Governance. MIT Press.
McGinnis, Michael D., ed. 2000. Polycentric Games and Institutions: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. University of Michigan Press.
Prakash, Aseem. 2000. Greening the Firm: The Politics of Corporate Environmentalism. Cambridge University Press.
Agrawal, Arun. 1999. Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community among a Migrant Pastoral People. Duke University Press.
Agrawal, Arun, with Charla Britt and Keshav Kanel. 1999. Decentralization in Nepal: A Comparative Analysis. ICS Press (available from the Workshop).
Alt, James E., Margaret Levi, and Elinor Ostrom, eds. 1999. Competition & Cooperation: Conversations with Nobelists about Economics and Political Science. Russell Sage Foundation.
Gibson, Clark C. 1999. Politicans and Poachers: The Political Economy of Wildlife Policy in Africa. Cambridge University Press.
Hess, Charlotte. 1999. A Comprehensive Bibliography of Common Pool Resources. CD-ROM (for Windows 95/98/NT 4.0). Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.
McGinnis, Michael D., ed. 1999. Polycentric Governance and Development: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. University of Michigan Press.
McGinnis, Michael D., ed. 1999. Polycentricity and Local Public Economies: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. University of Michigan Press.
Gibson, Clark, Abwoli Y. Banana, and John Ntambirweki, eds. 1998. Common Property Resources Management in East Africa. Proceedings of the Regional Symposium on Common Property Resources Management in East Africa, Kampala, Uganda, March 26-28, 1996. Ukinzi Enterprises Ltd.
Hackett, Steven C. 1998. Environmental and Natural Resources Economics: Theory, Policy, and the Sustainable Society. M.E. Sharpe.
Lam, Wai Fung. 1998. Governing Irrigation Systems in Nepal: Institutions, Infrastructure, and Collective Action. ICS Press (available from the Workshop).
Ostrom, Vincent. 1997. The Meaning of Democracy and the Vulnerability of Democracies: A Response to Tocqueville's Challenge. University of Michigan Press.
Shivakoti, Ganesh, George Varughese, Elinor Ostrom, Ashutosh Shukla, and Ganesh Thapa, eds. 1997. People and Participation in Sustainable Development: Understanding the Dynamics of Natural Resource Systems. Proceedings of an international conference held at the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Rampur, Chitwan, Nepal, March 17-21, 1996. Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.
Alston, Lee J., Thráinn Eggertsson, and Douglass C. North, eds. 1996. Empirical Studies in Institutional Change. Cambridge University Press.
Firmin-Sellers, Kathryn. 1996. The Transformation of Property Rights in the Gold Coast: An Empirical Analysis Applying Rational Choice Theory. Cambridge University Press.
Kaul, Minoti Chakravarty. 1996. Common Lands and Customary Law: Institutional Change in North India over the Past Two Centuries. Oxford University Press.
Gardner, Roy. 1995. Games for Business and Economics. John Wiley.
Keohane, Robert O., and Elinor Ostrom, eds. 1995. Local Commons and Global Interdependence: Heterogeneity and Cooperation in Two Domains. Sage Publications.
Olowu, Dele, Kayode Soremekun, and Adebayo Williams, eds. 1995. Governance and Democratisation in Nigeria. Spectrum Books.
Schneider, Mark, and Paul Teske with Michael Mintrom. 1995. Public Entrepreneurs: Agents for Change in American Government. Princeton University Press.
Wunsch, James, and Dele Olowu, eds. 1995. The Failure of the Centralized State: Institutions and Self-Governance in Africa. 2nd ed. ICS Press.
Jillson, Calvin, and Rick K. Wilson. 1994. Congressional Dynamics: Structure, Coordination, and Choice in the First American Congress, 1774-1789. Stanford University Press.
Landa, Janet T. 1994. Trust, Ethnicity, and Identity: Beyond the New Institutional Economics of Ethnic Trading Networks, Contract Law, and Gift-Exchange. University of Michigan Press.
Ostrom, Elinor, Roy Gardner, and James Walker. 1994. Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources. University of Michigan Press.
Sowerwine, Jennifer, Ganesh Shivakoti, Ujjwal Pradhan, Ashutosh Shukla, and Elinor Ostrom, eds. 1994. From Farmers' Fields to Data Fields and Back: A Synthesis of Participatory Information Systems for Irrigation and Other Resources. Proceedings of an International Workshop held at the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS), Rampur, Nepal, March 21-26, 1993. International Irrigation Management Institute (IIMI) and IAAS.
Keohane, Robert, Michael McGinnis, and Elinor Ostrom. 1993. Linking Local and Global Commons. Proceedings of a conference. Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.
Netting, Robert McC. 1993. Smallholders, Householders: Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive, Sustainable Agriculture. Stanford University Press.
Ostrom, Elinor, Larry Schroeder, and Susan Wynne. 1993. Institutional Incentives and Sustainable Development: Infrastructure Policies in Perspective. Westview Press.
Ostrom, Vincent, David Feeny, and Hartmut Picht, eds. 1993. Rethinking Institutional Analysis and Development: Issues, Alternatives, and Choices. ICS Press (available from the Workshop).
Kaminski, Antoni. 1992. An Institutional Theory of Communist Regimes: Design, Function, and Breakdown. ICS Press (available from the Workshop).
Ostrom, Elinor. 1992. Crafting Institutions for Self-Governing Irrigation Systems. ICS Press (available from the Workshop).
Thomson, James T. 1992. A Framework for Analyzing Institutional Incentives in Community Forestry. FAO.
Ostrom, Vincent. 1991. The Meaning of American Federalism: Constituting a Self-Governing Society. ICS Press (available from the Workshop).
Ostrom, Elinor. 1990. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge University Press.
Kaufmann, Franz-Xaver, Giandomenico Majone, and Vincent Ostrom, eds. 1986. Guidance, Control, and Evaluation in the Public Sector. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter. [For a condensed version see: Kaufmann, Franz-Xaver, ed. 1991. The Public Sector: Challenge for Coordination and Learning. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter
Ostrom, Elinor, ed. 1982. Strategies of Political Inquiry. Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.
