Elinor Ostrom’s article in this issue suggests that institutions for collective action evolve, highlights parallels … metaphor for institutional change and that institutions actually evolve. This commentary unpacks the concept of evolutionary … development to delineate various forms and processes of institutional change, distinguish between evolutionary and non …

largest goals are to state some general conditions under which intermittent institutions prove superior or inferior to …Standing institutions have a continuous existence: examples include the United Nations, the British Parliament, the US … presidency, the standing committees of the US Congress, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Intermittent institutions have a …

The transplantation of public policies is a powerful tool in the hands of economic development. Powerful as it may be … institutions and how they may interact with a set of more overarching policy requirements and guidelines. An architecture for …

. These will include the question of ownership of water; the relationship between the state and civil society; the doctrine of …