The Good Society has published a special symposium issue on the work of Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School, which includes Lin’s husband Vincent Ostrom and their many colleagues and students. All study common property regimes, institutional design, the conditions under which voluntary collaboration occurs, and polycentric governance (governance understood as occurring at many levels and in many contexts). I contribute the first article, “Seeing Like a Citizen: The Contributions of Elinor Ostrom to ‘Civic Studies.'” My good friends Harry Boyte and Karol Soltan also have pieces in the issue (“Public Work and the Politics of the Commons” and “A Civic Science”).