luxon quoted Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom
Analysis of institutional change is also far more difficult than analysis of operational decisions within a fixed set of rules. The rules affecting operational choice are made within a set of collective-choice rules that are themselves made within a set of constitutional-choice rules. The constitutional-choice rules for a micro-setting are affected by collective-choice and constitutional-choice rules for larger jurisdictions. Individuals who have self-organizing capabilities switch back and forth between operational-, collective-, and constitutional-choice arenas, just as managers of production firms switch back and forth between producing products within a set technology, introducing a new technology, and investing resources in technology development.
I liked this positive description of what it means to be an "individual who [has] self-organizing capabilities", and particular its comparison to managers of production firms.