Working Papers

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Below is a collection of working papers showcasing research work published by researchers of the Ostrom Workshop. For those not available online, you can contact the Workshop for help.

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• Bower-Bir, Jacob S. 2020. “Desert as a Parsimonious, Emergent Social Institution.”
• Alston, Eric, Lee J. Alston, and Bernardo Mueller. 2019. “The Logic of Leadership and Organizational Hierarchies.” Paper to be presented at the Public Choice Society Annual Meetings, Louisville, KY, March 14–16; LSE-Stanford-U de los Andes conference on Long-Run Development in Latin America and Beyond, Bogota, Colombia, May 30–31; and SIOE annual conference, Stockholm, Sweden, June 27–29.
• Ahunu, Linda. 2018. “The New Approach to Resource Governance in Africa: Adopting a Pro-social Resource Governance Framework in Ghana Discussion Document.”
• Rozas, David, Antonio Tenorio-Fornés, Silvia Díaz-Molina & Samer Hassan. 2018. “When Ostrom Meets Blockchain: Exploring the Potentials of Blockchain for Commons Governance.” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3272329.
• Shackelford, Scott. 2017. “Exploring the ‘Shared Responsibility’ of Cyber Peace: Should Cybersecurity Be a Human Right?”
• Alston, Lee J., and Bernardo Mueller. 2016. “Development as Search: Beliefs across Brazilian History.” Paper presented at the conference on “Institutions and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Historical and Contemporary Issues,” Yale University, New Haven, CT, Oct. 15, 2016.
• Alston, Eric, Lee J. Alston, Bernardo Mueller, and Tomas Nonnenmacher. 2016. “Institutional and Organizational Analysis: Concepts and Applications.” Paper presented at the 20th Annual SIOE conference, Sciences Po, Paris, France, June 15–17.
• Alston, Lee J., Marcus André Melo, Bernardo Mueller, and Carlos Pereira. 2016. “A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Critical Transitions.” NBER Working Paper No. 22144. Translated into Chinese in special feature of Journal of Comparative Studies 84 (June 2016): 118–55.
• Delaney, Aogán, Tom Evans, John McGreevy, Jordan Blekking, Tyler Schlachter, et al. 2016. “Strengthening the Food Systems Governance Evidence Base: Supporting Commensurability of Research through a Systematic Review of Methods.” Working Paper no. 167. Copenhagen, Denmark: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
• Alston, Lee, and Bernardo Mueller. 2016. “Economic Backwardness and Catching Up: Brazilian Agriculture, 1964–2014.” NBER Working Paper 21988 (Feb.).
• Epstein, Graham, Audun Sandberg, Ingrid Bay-Larsen, and Grete K. Hovelsrud. 2015. “Institutions and Adaptation Processes: A Social-Ecological System Approach for the Study of Adaptation to Climate Change.” Presented at the WOW5 conference, IU Bloomington, June 18–21, 2014.