Institutional alternatives

Readings due before class on Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Required

Important: The PDFs of the articles and chapters are posted on Learning Suite.

• Chapter 5 in Douglass C. North, Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic PerformanceDouglass C. North, Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
  
  
• Olaf Corry, “Defining and Theorizing the Third Sector”Olaf Corry, “Defining and Theorizing the Third Sector,” in Third Sector Research, ed. Rupert Taylor (New York: Springer, 2010), 11–20, doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-5707-8_2.
  
  
• Michael W. Foley and Bob Edwards, “The Paradox of Civil Society”Michael W. Foley and Bob Edwards, “The Paradox of Civil Society,” Journal of Democracy 7, no. 3 (July 1996): 38–52, doi:10.1353/jod.1996.0048.
  
  
• David C. Hammack, “Nonprofit Organizations in American History”David C. Hammack, “Nonprofit Organizations in American History,” The American Behavioral Scientist 45, no. 11 (July 2002): 1638–74, doi:10.1177/0002764202045011004.
  
  
  • This one is long. You don’t need to read it in as much detail.
• Chapters 1 and 2 in Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective ActionElinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
  
  
  • This one is also long and game theoretical. You can skim through lots of it (especially the mathy sections). But it’s also pretty foundational to public administration, so it is important.