Quotes from The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration

By Vincent Ostrom (1973)

• Any form of organization capable of establishing and enforcing ordered social relationships among a large community of persons will necessarily depend on a radical inequality in the assignment of decision-making capabilities to those who exercise the prerogative for allocating and controlling the decision-making capabilities exercised by others.#
  Politics
• Tolerating great gaps between theory and practice implies that we have so distanced ourselves from reality that we are no longer informed observers of human societies.#
  Methodology