The Ostroms on self-governance: the importance of cybernetics
揭示控制论（通过反馈机制进行控制的理论）是埃莉诺和文森特·奥斯特罗姆自我治理思想的重要灵感来源，并论证自我治理涉及多层“二阶”反馈机制，为理解奥斯特罗姆的治理理论提供了新视角。
Abstract This paper reveals a novel and perhaps surprising ingredient in the mix of influences that inspired and informed the work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom on self-governance: cybernetics, understood as a theory of control via feedback mechanisms. Based on this crucial insight, the paper portrays self-governance as involving an architecture of multiple levels of so-called ‘second order’ feedback mechanisms. Such compounded systems of organization are the key to understanding any self-governance process and the paper argues that their intrinsic logic provides a critical link between the work of the Ostroms and the public choice and constitutional political economy perspectives on institutional order. The paper thereby offers both a fresh perspective on the Ostromian view of self-governance and also of also of governance theory in general.