Below are links and citations organized in two broad collections of dissertations. These dissertations include work published by researchers of the Ostrom Workshop and Elinor and/or Vincent Ostrom.
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Bower-Bir, Jacob. 2014. “What We Deserve: The Moral Origins of Economic Inequality and Our Policy Responses to It.”
McCord, Paul. 2017. “Spatial Dynamics of Water Governance and Crop Production in Irrigated Smallholder Agricultural Systems.”
Mincey, Sarah K. 2012. “Urban Forests as Social-Ecological Systems: The Role of Collective Action and Institutions in Sustainable Urban Forest Management.”
Nath, Sanchayan. 2017. “Beyond Institutional Diversity: Studying Governance & Leadership in the Social-Ecological System of Urban Lakes in Bangalore, India.” [Abstract]
Vogt, Jessica. 2014. “Urban Tree Planting, Tree Maintenance, and the Success of Planted Urban Trees.”
Ahn, Songmin. 1995. “The Influence of Governance Structure and Size of Public Libraries on the Provision and Production of Library Service.”
Ahn, T. K. 2001. “Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas.”
Allen, Barbara. 1981. “Democracy in America Revisited: An Application of Tocqueville’s Political Theory to Feminist Theory and Action.”
Allen, David N. 1980. “Street-Level Police Supervision: the Effect of Supervision on Police Officer Activities, Agency Outputs, and Neighborhood Outcomes.”
Allen, Linda. 2005. “The Politics of Structural Choice of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation: The Theoretical Foundations of the Design of International Environmental Institutions.”
Andersson, Krister P. 2002. “Can Decentralization Save Bolivia’s Forests? An Institutional Analysis of Municipal Forest Governance.”
Araral, Eduardo K. 2006. “Decentralization Puzzles: A Political Economy Analysis of Irrigation Reform in the Philippines.”
Arnold, Gwen. 2012. “Assessing Wetland Assessment: Understanding State Bureaucratic Use and Adoption of Rapid Wetland Assessment Tools.”
Baden, John A. 1969. “The Management of Social Stability: A Political Ethnography of the Hutterites of North America.”
Bartlett, Robert V. 1984. “Rationality and Science in Public Policy: The National Environmental Policy Act.”
Beck, Peter A. 2000. “Conservation, Development and Collaboration: Analyzing Institutional Incentives for Participatory Conservation in Uganda.”
Berheide, Michael. 1984. “Methodology and Metaphysics: Karl Popper and the Practice of Political Science.”
Bish, Robert L. 1968. “The Distribution of Housing Taxes and Subsidies and Effects on Housing Consumption of Low-Income Families.”
Blomquist, William. 1987. “Getting Out of the Trap: Changing an Endangered Commons to a Managed Commons.”
Bushouse, Brenda K. 1999. “The Mixed Economy of Child Care: An Institutional Analysis of Nonprofit, For Profit, and Public Enterprises.”
Choe, Jaesong. 1992. “The Organization of Urban Common-Property Institutions: The Case of Apartment Communities in Seoul.”
Coleman, Eric. 2009. “Essays on the Effects of Institutions and Trust on Collective Action.”
Collins, Brian K. 2000. “Contestable Markets for State Economic Governance: Reducing the Costs of Democracy in U.S. States.”
Cooper, James L., Jr. 1993. “The Solicitor General and Federal Litigation: Principal-Agent Relationships and the Separation of Powers.”
Cox, Michael. 2010. “Exploring the Dynamics of Social-Ecological Systems: The Case of the Taos Valley Acequias.”
Crawford, Sue E.S. 1995. “Clergy at Work in the Secular City.”
Croissant, Cynthia. 2005. “Uses and Landscape Patterns: A Study of Relationships between Human Activities and Spatial Patterns of Land Use and Land Cover on Private Parcels in Monroe County, Indiana.”
Dean, Debra L. 1982. “Comparative Models of the Social Services Production Process: The Case of Police Service Production in Police-Citizen Encounters.”
De Castro, Fabio. 2000. “Fishing Accords: The Political Ecology of Fishing Intensification in the Amazon.”
Dolšak, Nives. 2000. “Marketable Permits: Managing Local, Regional, and Global Commons.”
Donnelly, Shanon. 2009. “Linking Land Use, Land Cover, and Land Ownership at the Parcel Scale in the Midwest United States.”
Duany, Julia Aker. 1996. “Sudanese Women and Education: The Struggle for Equal Access and Participation.”
Duany, Wal. 1992. “Neither Palaces Nor Prisons: The Constitution of Order among the Nuer.”
Dudley, Dean. 1993. “Essays on Individual Behavior in Social Dilemma Environments: An Experimental Analysis.”
Elliott-Teague, Ginger. 2007. “NGOs in Policymaking in Tanzania: The Relationships of Group Characteristics, Political Participation and Policy Outcomes.”
Fielder, Virginia D. 1976. “Priorities for the Coverage of Law Enforcement News: Perceptions of Citizens, Police, and Media Gatekeepers.”
Fleischman, Forrest D. 2012. “Public Servant Behavior and Forest Policy Implementation in Central India.”
Futemma, Celia. 2000. “Collective Action and Assurance of Property Rights to Natural Resources: A Case Study from the Lower Amazon Region, Santarem, Brazil.”
Garcia-Lopez, Gustavo. 2012. “Scaling Up from the Top Down and the Bottom Up: The Impacts and Governance of Inter-Community Forest Associations in Durango, Mexico.”
Goetze, David. 1980. “The Impact of Inputs, Employee Characteristics, Organizational Arrangements, and Activities on the Environmental Effectiveness of State Air Pollution Control Agencies.”
Greene, Barbara P. 1971. “The Politics of Regulation: Responsiveness and Control.”
Greene, Vernon L. 1978. “The Metaphysical Foundations of Constitutional Order.”
Gregg, Phillip M. 1972. “A Reformulation of Theory in Policy Studies.”
Haney, Patrick J. 1992. “Organizing for Foreign Policy: Presidents, Advisers, and Crisis Decision-Making.”
Herr, Andrew R. 1996. “Appropriation Externalities in the Commons: Theory and Experimental Evidence.”
Holahan, Robert A. 2011. "Investigating Majority Rule Voting in Common-pool Resource Settings."
Hung, Chi-Kan Richard. 1999. “Credit Risk Management and Rules: The Experience of Group-Based Microcredit Programs in the United States.”
Hwang, Su-Ik. 1985. “Constitutional Choice and the Individual Calculus of Voting.”
IsHak, Samir T. 1972. “Consumers’ Perception of Police Performance Consolidation vs. Deconcentration: The Case of Grand Rapids, Michigan Metropolitan Area.”
Jagger, Pamela. 2009. “Can Forest Sector Devolution Improve Rural Livelihoods? An Analysis of Forest Income and Institutions in Western Uganda.”
Kashwan, Prakash. 2011. “Democracy in the Woods: The Politics of Institutional Change in India’s Forest Areas.”
Kauneckis, Derek. 2005. “The Co-Production of Property Rights: Theory and Evidence from a Mixed-Right System in Southern Mexico.”
Kessler, David A. 1989. “Improving Policing: The Impact of Neighborhood-Oriented Policing on Officers' Attitudes Toward the Public.”
Koontz, Tomas M. 1997. “Federalism and Natural Resource Policy: Comparing State and National Management of Public Forests.”
Lam, Wai Fung. 1994. “Institutions, Engineering Infrastructure, and Performance in the Governance and Management of Irrigation Systems: The Case of Nepal.”
Lee, Myungsuk. 1994. “Institutional Analysis, Public Policy, and the Possibility of Collective Action in Common Pool Resources: A Dynamic Game Theoretic Approach.”
Loveman, Brian. 1973. “Property, Politics and Rural Labor: Agrarian Reform in Chile, 1919–1972.”
Ludewigs, Thomas. 2007. “Land-Use Decision Making, Uncertainty and Effectiveness of Land Reform in Acre, Brazilian Amazon.”
Marquez, Lilian. 2011. “The Effect of Institutions on Guatemalan Forests: Conceptual, Methodological and Practical Implications.”
Matejczyk, Anthony P. 1997. “A Theory of Institutionally-Induced Consensus: An Empirical Test of Zoning Exceptions.”
Matisoff, Daniel Charles. 2009. “The Patchwork Quilt of Climate Change Policies: An Assessment of Voluntary and Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reduction Programs.”
McDavid, James C. 1975. “Interjurisdictional Cooperation and Police Performance: The St. Louis Experience.”
McIver, John P. 1986. “The Control of Bureaucrats in Representative Democracies: A Study of Urban Policing.”
Mwangi, Esther. 2003. “Institutional Change and Politics: The Transformation of Property Rights in Kenya’s Maasailand.”
Myers, Martha A. 1997. “The Effects of Victim Characteristics on the Prosecution, Conviction and Sentencing of Criminal Defendants.”
Myint, Tun. 2005. “Strength of ‘Weak’ Forces in Multilayer Environmental Governance: Cases from the Mekong and Rhine River Basins.”
Namubiru, Evelyn Lwanga. 2008. “Coping with Top-Down Institutional Changes in Forestry.”
Never, Brent. 2005. “Institution Making in Times of Crisis (Benin).”
Oakerson, Ronald J. 1978. “The Erosion of Public Highways: A Policy Analysis of the Eastern Kentucky Coal-Haul Road Problem.”
O’Brien, David J. 1972. “Neighborhood Organization and Interest Group Politics.”
Oeschler, Ronald G. 1984. “Agenda Setting in the USSR: Bureau Officials and the Initiation of Policies to Protect Water Quality.”
Ortbals, Candice D. 2004. “Embedded Institutions, Activisms, and Discourses: Untangling the Intersections of Women’s Civil Society and Women’s Policy Agencies in Spain.”
Oyerinde, Oyebade Kunle. 2006. “The Constitution of Order among the Yoruba of Nigeria.”
Pacheco, Diego. 2007. “An Institutional Analysis of Decentralization and Indigenous Timber Management in Common-Property Forests of Bolivia’s Lowlands.”
Parks, Roger. 1971. “Measurement of Performance in the Public Sector: A Case Study of the Indianapolis Police Department.”
Percy, Stephen L. 1981. “Citizen Coproduction of Community Safety and Security.”
Persha, Lauren. 2008. “Decentralized Forest Management, Anthropogenic Disturbance Patterns and Forest Change in the Usambara Mountains, Tanzania.”
Polski, Margaret M. 2000. “Institutional Evolution and Change: Interstate Banking Reform in the United States.”
Potoski, Matthew. 1998. “Managing Uncertainty in Environmental Policy: Air Pollution Regulation in the American States.”
Prakash, Aseem. 1997. “A Logic of Corporate Environmentalism: ‘Beyond Compliance’ Environmental Policymaking in Baxter International Inc. and Eli Lilly and Company.”
Raines, Susan Summers. 2002. “Unheard Voices in International Environmental Agreements: Implications of Stakeholder Absence on the Legitimacy and Efficacy of ISO 14001.”
Ray, Dixie Wiles. 1992. “Neighborhood Health Centers: An Analysis of Collective Action.”
Regmi, Ashok. 2007. “The Role of Group Heterogeneity in Collective Action: A Look at the Intertie between Irrigation and Forests. Case Studies from Chitwan, Nepal.”
Reiners, Derek. 2006. “Institutional Effects on Decision-Making and Performance in Public Land Agencies: The Case of Wildfire in the Interior West of the United States.”
Roberts, Michael E. 2008. “Human Collective Behavior.”
Sabet, Daniel M. 2005. “Thickening Civil Society: Nonprofit Organizations and Problems of Water and Sanitation Along Mexico’s Northern Border.”
Sabetti, Filippo. 1977. “The Political Basis of Human Misery: A Study of a Sicilian Village.”
Schaaf, Jeanne. 1989. “Governing a Monopoly Market under Siege: Using Institutional Analysis to Understand Competitive Entry into Telecommunications Markets, 1944-1982.”
Schlager, Edella. 1990. “Model Specification and Policy Analysis: The Governance of Coastal Fisheries.”
Schoon, Michael. 2008. “Building Robustness to Disturbance: Governance in Southern African Peace Parks.”
Schweik, Charles M. 1998. “The Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Forest Resources and Institutions.”
Sillay, Stephanie. 2008. “Arbitral Veto Authority, Legislative Bargaining, and Patterns of Consensus Formation: An Exploration of Abstract Judicial Review and Referenda as Legislative Arbitrators in Hungary and Switzerland.”
Silva-Forsberg, Maria Clara. 1999. “Protecting an Urban Forest Reserve in the Amazon: A Multi-Scale Analysis of Edge Effects, Population Pressure and Institutions.”
Sislin, John. 1993. “Arms as Influence: The Elusive Link between Military Assistance and Political Compliance.”
Smith, Dennis C. 1976. “Police Professionalization and Performance: An Analysis of Public Policy from the Perspective of Police as Producers and Citizens as Consumers of a Public Service.”
Smith, Ronald S. 2006. “Discerning Differences in Social Capital: The Significance of Interpersonal Network and Neighborhood Association Structure on Citizen Participation.”
Southworth, Jane. 2000. “Global Environmental Change: What are the Impacts of Climate Change and Land Cover Change on Different Ecosystems?”
Sproule-Jones, Mark. 1970. “Toward a Theory of Public Employment.”
Squires, Michael Leslie. 1982. “Modeling the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Strategic Arms Race.”
Steed, Brian C. 2010. “Natural Forces, Human Choices: An Over Time Study of Responses to Biophysical and Human Induced Disturbance in Los Angeles, California Groundwater Governance.”
Steketee, Deborah Meadows. 2006. “Making Connections: Environmental NGOs and Cross-Scale Linkages in Ecuador’s Tropical Forests Policy Process.”
Sun, Wenjie. 2006. “A GIS-Based Integrated Approach to Explore Land-Use/Cover Change Dynamics in South-Central Indiana.”
Swindell, David W. 1997. “Community Organizations and the Governing Capability of Indianapolis Neighborhoods.”
Tang, Shui Yan. 1989. “Institutions and Collective Action in Irrigation Systems.”
Thomson, James T. 1976. “Law, Legal Process and Development at the Local Level in Haus-Speaking Niger: A Trouble Case Analysis of Rural Institutional Inertia.”
Toniolo, Maria Angélica. 2004. “The Role of Land Tenure in the Occurrence of Accidental Fires in the Amazon Region: Case Studies from the National Forest of Tapajós, Pará, Brazil.”
Turner, Jennifer. 1997. “Authority Flowing Downwards? Local Government Entrepreneurship in the Chinese Water Sector.”
Turner, Paul W. 1998. “Constitutional Orders and Deforestation: A Cross-National Analysis of the Humid Tropics.”
Van Houweling, Douglas E. 1976. “A Microeconomic Theory of Political Participation.”
van Laerhoven, Frank. 2008. “Local Governance and the Challenge of Solving Collective Action Dilemmas.”
Varughese, George. 1999. “Villagers, Bureaucrats, and Forests in Nepal: Designing Governance for a Complex Resource.”
Villamayor-Tomas, Sergio. 2012. “Understanding Robustness to Disturbance through the Theory of the Commons: Irrigation Water Governance and Socio-Ecological Robustness in the Gallego and Cinca River Watersheds, Spain.”
Vogt, Nathan. 2005. “Mechanisms of Land-Cover Change in Uganda: Longer-Term Analyses of the Role of Institutional Arrangements.”
Walker, S. Tjip. 1998. “Both Pretense and Promise: The Political Economy of Privatization in Africa.”
Wang, Jianxun. 2006. “Political Economy of Village Governance in Contemporary China.”
Welch, David. 2007. “Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Forest Dynamics in South Central Indiana and Southern Illinois.”
Whitaker, Gordon P. 1971. “Urban Police Forces: The Effect of Scale on Neighborhood Services.”
Wilson, Richard K. 1982. “Institutional Effects on Committee Behavior: A Game Theory Experiment.”
Wisdom, Thomas N. 2010. “Incentives, Innovation, and Imitation: Social Learning in a Networked Group.”
Wise, Lois R. 1982. “Public Employee Membership Incentives: The Effect of Organizational Change and Individual Characteristics.”
Wunsch, James S. 1974. “Voluntary Associations: Determinants of Structure and Activity in Two Ghanaian Secondary Cities.”
Wynne, Susan G. 1989. “The Land Boards of Botswana: A Problem in Institutional Design.”
Yandle, Tracy. 2001. “Market-Based Natural Resource Management: An Institutional Analysis of Individual Tradable Quotas in New Zealand’s Commercial Fisheries.”
Yang, Tai-Shuenn. 1987. “Property Rights and Constitutional Order in Imperial China.”
York, Abigail. 2005. “Land Use Institutions in an Urbanizing Landscape.”
Zauderer, Donald G. 1971. “The Rig of the Game: An Analysis of the Political Consequences Resulting from an Alteration in the Ohio Ballot Form.”
Zeemering, Eric S. 2007. “Who Collaborates? Local Decisions about Intergovernmental Relations.”
