It may sound surprising to many but that was precisely the domain of Vincent and Elinor
Ostrom’s initial work. TheOstroms dealt with Public Administration not figuratively, in between
the lines and by default, as many other public choicers do, but literarily.During the initial decades
of Public Choice, the Bloomington scholars were the main promoters of the Public Choice
revolution in the field of Public Administration. Moreover, they were at the very core of that field,
outliers, but not eccentrics. In the ‘60s and ‘70s their work was in many respects defined by a
systematic attempt not only to introduce Public Choice insights into the discipline dealing with
the study of the administrative side of public affairs but, even more, to revolutionize this field, to
incite a ‘‘paradigm shift’’ towards the Public Choice foundational principles.