Ronald J. Oakerson

Ronald J. Oakerson (born Template:Abbr 1944) is a professor emeritus of political science and intercultural studies at Houghton College.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He has served previously as the college's Vice President and Dean, as well as the chairman of the Department of History and Political Science. He is a founding member of the National Rural Studies CouncilTemplate:Citation needed and served on the American Political Science Association's Task Force on Civic Education for the Next Century.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Elinor Ostrom described Oakerson as an important contributor to the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref> On the version of the framework Oakerson presented at the Proceedings of the Conference on Common Property Resource Management at the National Research Council in April 1985,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Ostrom wrote that it "...has influenced an untold number of studies of common-property regimes in many diverse sectors in all regions of the world."<ref name=":0" />

Oakerson states, "The purpose of education is to build a bridge between generations, so as to preserve our accomplishments."Template:Citation needed

Employment History

From 1985-88 he was a senior analyst with the US Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and directed the Commission's program on metropolitan government.Template:Citation needed He has previously taught at Marshall University and from 1988-92 was a scholar with the Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University Bloomington.

Oakerson is a former member of the Panel on Common Property Resources Management of the National Research Council and a coeditor of Making the Commons Work: Theory, Practice, and Policy (1992).<ref name=":1">Oakerson, R. J. (1992). Analyzing the commons: A framework. Making the commons work: Theory, practice and policy, 41-59.</ref> From 1992-94 he served as the research director for the Program of Research on Market Transitions of the US Agency for International Development (Cameroon).Template:Citation needed

Writings by Ronald J. Oakerson

• 'Analyzing the Commons: A Framework' in Making the commons work: Theory, practice and policy<ref name=":1" />
• Governing Local Public Economies: Creating the Civic Metropolis<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Keepers of the Republic: A Civic View of American PoliticsTemplate:Citation needed

External links

• Website at Houghton College