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  • 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
  • Edited by Sheila R. Foster, Chrystie F. Swiney
  • Book: The Cambridge Handbook of Commons Research Innovations
  • Published online: 29 October 2021
  • Print publication: 11 November 2021, pp 176-187
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    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.