'This book is both well written and carefully structured and edited, making it valuable not only for all social scientists interested in learning about the Ostroms' take on polycentricity and public choice, but also for those interested in applying and extending the ideas of self-governance and polycentric governance to uncharted territories such as pandemics, financial crises, migration, climate change, and cybersecurity, among other pressing fields of inquiry.' Pablo Paniagua, Public Choice
Introduction Andreas Thiel, William A. Blomquist and Dustin E. Garrick; Part I. Foundations for Understanding and Researching Polycentric Governance Mark Stephan and William A. Blomquist: 1. An introduction to polycentricity and governance Mark Stephan, Graham Marshall and Michael McGinnis; 2. Seeing polycentrically: examining governance situations using a polycentricity lens William A. Blomquist and Nadine Jenny Shirin Schroeder; 3. Foundational aspects of polycentric governance: overarching rules, social-problem characteristics and heterogeneity Andreas Thiel and Christine Moser-Priewich; 4. Evolutionary institutional change and performance in polycentric governance Andreas Thiel, Raúl Pacheco-Vega and Elizabeth Baldwin; Part II. Interactions and Performance in Polycentric Governance Tom Koontz and Dustin E. Garrick: Overview and Introduction Tom Koontz, Tanya Heikkila, Dustin E. Garrick and Sergio Villamayor-Tomas; 5. Cooperation in polycentric governance systems Tom Koontz; 6. Conflict and conflict resolution in polycentric governance systems Tanya Heikkila; 7. Competition in polycentric governance systems Dustin E. Garrick and Sergio Villamayor-Tomas; 8. Assessing performance in polycentric governance system interactions Tom Koontz, Tanya Heikkila, Dustin E. Garrick and Sergio Villamayor-Tomas; Part III. Constituting Polycentric Governance Graham Marshall and Andreas Thiel: 9. Polycentricity and citizenship in environmental governance Graham Marshall and Anas Malik; 10. The Faustian bargain: power-sharing, constitutions, and the practice of polycentricity in governance Vlad Tarko, Edella Schlager and Mark Lutter; 11. Practicing polycentric governance Bryan Bruns; Conclusions Andreas Thiel, William A. Blomquist and Dustin E. Garrick; References.