Elinor Ostrom is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington She has authored many books in the fields of organizational theory, political science, and public administration. Organizational Studies (also known as Industrial Organizations, Organizational Behavior and I/O) is a distinct field of academic study which takes as its subject organizations, examining them using the methods of economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, and psychology. ... Political science is a social science discipline that deals with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. ... It has been suggested that public management be merged into this article or section. ...

She is considered an expert on collective action, trust, the commons, and related areas. Wiktionary has related dictionary definitions, such as: trust Trust may refer to: Trust (sociology), the willing acceptance of one persons power to affect another Property law Trust law, where ownership and management of property is on behalf of another Escrow, where a thing is held in trust until conditions... That which is stolen in a Tragedy of the Commons. ...

Ostrom received her Ph.D. in political science from UCLA. The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, is a public, coeducational university situated in the neighborhood of Westwood within the city of Los Angeles. ...

Publications

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action Ostrom, Elinor, and Randall Calvert, and Thrainn Eggertsson, Editors, Cambridge University Press, 1990

Trust and Reciprocity: Interdisciplinary Lessons for Experimental Research {Volume VI in the Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust, Elinor Ostrom and James Walker, Editors , Russell Sage Foundation, 2003 James Walker may refer to a number of persons: James Walker, Canadian wrestling columnist James J. Walker, a boxer James Walker, Scottish engineer James Walker, (b. ...