Stream of consciousness; not much in the way of… actual rules?

I really wanted to like this, and it was a good way to get my head back in the Ostrom headspace after some years away. But the writing was too often practically stream-of-consciousness; more editing and a stronger thesis - what are the rules? What examples can we build on? - would really have been beneficial. Shame, because the core argument - progressives/radicals should learn from Ostrom - really is coherent and important.