Vivien Lowndes
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Professor of Public Policy, Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham. Her contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Governance (2007) formed the basis of her contributions to Britannica.
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Rule, in political science, a principle to which action should conform or a widely accepted standard of behaviour. The American political scientist Elinor Ostrom, a cowinner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Science, defined rules as prescriptions that define which actions are required,…
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