Past Colloquium Series
September 09, 2024
Kosali Simon, Indiana University
“School Closures and Parental Mental Health"
September 16, 2024
Stefani Crabtree, Santa Fe Institute
“Towards a science of archaeoecology"
September 23, 2024
Sergio Ospina Romero, Indiana University
“Talking Machine Empires. Phonograph Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean during the Acoustic Era"
September 30, 2024
Ostrom Networking Event
October 07, 2024
Keitlyn Alcantara, Indiana University
“The Common[ing] Weed: The Mesoamerican milpa as a lesson in collaborative governance"
October 14, 2024
Jeff Prince, Indiana University
“International Measurements of Data Privacy Preferences, with Implications for Business and Policy"
January 29, 2024
Seth Blumsack, The Pennsylvania State
“Political Coalition Structrure in Regional Electric Transmission Organizations"
February 5, 2024
Benjamin Sovacool, Boston University
“The low-carbon risk society: Dilemmas of risk-risk tradeoffs in energy transitions and climate policy”
February 12, 2024
Giovanna Di Chiro, Swarthmore College
“Decolonizing 'Our Common Future': Community Worldmaking for Environmental Justice”
February 19, 2024
Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Reconciling Polycentric Governance via Data Protection Addenda”
February 26, 2024
Brenda Bushouse, University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Exploring the Philanthropy Commons”
March 4, 2024
Jessica O'Reilly, Indiana University
“The Curve: an ethnography of projecting sea level rise under uncertainty”
March 25, 2024
Ivette Perfecto, Michigan University
“A Framework for Examining "The Food Question: Ecological Syndromes of Production and Alternative Rural Economies"
April 15, 2024
Charlie Schweik, UMass Amherst
“Building Convergence Knowledge: A Meta-Analysis of the Apache Software Foundation's Open Source Software Incubation Program"
September 11, 2023
Annie Boustead, University of Arizona
“Measuring Encryption"
September 18, 2023
Eric Alston, University of Colorado
“Norms, Institution, and Digital Veils of Uncertainty - Do Network Protocols Need Trust Anyway?”
September 25, 2023
Salome Viljoen, University of Michigan
“Valuing Social Data"
October 9, 2023
Brett Frischmann, Villanova University
"Inexorably entangled environmental and knowledge commons"
October 16, 2023
Sara M. Gregg, Indiana University
"Pieces of Solution or Pathways for Regional Transformation"
November 6, 2023
Caroline Brock, University of Missouri
“Amish and non-Amish farmer perspectives on climate change effects, causes, and adaptation strategies”
November 13, 2023
Michael D. Makowsky, Clemson University
“Monopsony and Local Religious Clubs: Evidence from Indonesia”
January 23, 2023
Lauren MacLean, Indiana University
“Climate Justice in the City in the Global South"
January 30, 2023
Diana Ojeda, Indiana University
“Feminist Thought and Environmental Defense in Latin America”
February 6, 2023
Jessica Steinberg, Indiana University
“Information and Capacity: Implications for a New Grammar of State Capacity”
February 13, 2023
Beatriz Botero Arcila, Harvard University
"The Governance of Algorithmic Surveillance Technologies"
February 20, 2023
Eduardo Brondizio, Indiana University
"Pieces of Solution or Pathways for Regional Transformation"
February 27, 2023
Aaron Deslatte, Indiana University
“Climate-Adaptive Institutions and Urban Water Management”
March 6, 2023
Ben Green, University of Michigan
“Reimaging Data Science to Promote Social Justice”
March 20, 2023
Sophie Bacq, IMD Business School, and Tom Lumpkin, Oklahoma University
“A New View of Stakeholder engagement and Societal Impact”
March 27, 2023
Tim Cason, Purdue University
“Autocratic Policy and the Accumulation of Pro-social Norms: The Moscow Housing Renovation Program”
April 3, 2023
Daniel DeCaro, University of Louisville
“CA Case Study of Chicago's NeighborSpace Partnership”
April 10, 2023
Kohei Suzuki, Leiden University
“Does Leadership Continuity Moderate Merger Effects on Municipal Performance?”
April 17, 2023
Barb Allen, Carlton College, and Lindsay Flynn, University of Luxembourg
“The Epistemology of the Institutional Analysis & Development Framework”
April 24, 2023
Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah, SUNY Buffalo
“(Re)thinking the state-farmer relations”
September 12
Daniel C. Matisoff
“Green Market Transformation: Learning to LEED”
September 19
Sonja Amadae, University of Helsinki
“Polycentric Climate Governance Applying Anti-Rival sNFT Cryptocurrency Tokens”
September 26
Tatyana Ruseva, Appalachian State University
“Evaluating Forest Carbon Governance in a Subnational Climate Mitigation System Using the Network of Action Situations (NAS) Approach”
October 3
Karolina Safarzynska, Warsaw University
October 10
Aseem Prakash, University of Washington, Seattle
“Decarbonization and Supply Chains: Public Support for the Thacker Pass Lithium Mine”
October 17
Seth Frey, UC Davis
“Scaling Comparative Institutional Analysis with Computational Approaches to Knowledge Commons”
October 24
Scott Gehlbach, University of Chicago
“Contact, Threat, and Violence during Political Upheaval: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the 1905 Russian Revolution”
October 31
Gabriel Chan, University of Minnesota
“Power to, from, and for the People: The Implementation of Energy Democracy in Rural Electric Cooperatives”
November 7
Regina Smyth & Alexei Zakharov, Indiana University & University of Chicago
“Autocratic Policy and the Accumulation of Pro-social Norms: The Moscow Housing Renovation Program”
November 14
Ivan Lopez Cruz & Gustavo Torrens, Sabanci University & Indiana University
“Colonial Wars and Trade Restrictions: Fighting for Exclusive Trading Rights”
November 28
Clovia Hamilton, Indiana University
“Money is Morphing: State Cryptocurrency and Recommended Legal Changes”
December 5
Phoebe Jean-Pierre, Indiana University
“Diagnostic, Error, Racism, and Implicit Bias: The Persistence of Health Disparities”
January 24
Prakash Kashwan, University of Connecticut
“Analytics of Power, Inequality, and Justice in the Bloomington School of Institutional Analysis”
Podcast - “The Bloomington School: Beyond the Romance of Ideologies with Prakash Kashwan”
January 31
Kelsey Jack, UC Santa Barbara
“Harvesting the Rain: The Adoption of Environmental Technologies in the Sahel”
February 7
Eric Jardine, Virginia Tech
“Hezah! Ransomware: Externalities, Cost Internalization, and Security Investment Intentionality”
February 14
Susan Aaronson, George Washington University
“Data Strategies, Competitive Advantage, and Trust”
February 21
Joshua Lohnes, West Virginia University
“Food Waste, Hunger, and the Shifting Politics of Charitable Food Assistance in the United States”
Febrary 28
Nik Heynen, University of Georgia
“The Longue Durée of Abolition: Abolishing Hunger and Racial Terror in New Orleans and Beyond”
March 7
Asaf Lubin, Maurer School of Law, IU
“The Law and Politics of Ransomware”
March 21
Joseph Bahati,* Makerere University
“Overcoming Barriers in Management of Sustainable and Regenerative Climate Smart Agriculture, Agroforestry and Environment Projects: The Case of the Banana Industrial Research and Development Centre, Uganda”
March 28
Geoffrey Swenson,* City University of London
“Promoting the Other Rule of Law”
April 4
Hanna Schreiber,* University of Warsaw
“Inviting Whole Humanity to an Elite Club? Global Heritage Production Regimes and the UNESCO Heritage Lists through the Lens of the Ostrom's Concepts”
April 11
Jayme Lemke, George Mason University
“Polycentric Institutions of Intimacy”
April 18
Cullen Hendrix, University of Denver
“Sources of Climate Resilience in Regional Fisheries Management Organizations”
April 25
Giorgio Zanarone,* Washington University in St. Louis
January 25
Du Huynh*
School of Public Policy and Management, Fulbright University Vietnam “Public Entrepreneurship, Collective Wisdom and Doi Moi (Renovation) in Vietnam”
February 1
Marco Janssen
School of Sustainability, Arizona State University “Collective Action at the Shoreline: A Comparison of Lake Management Organizations in Vilas County, Wisconsin, U.S.A.”
February 8
James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins
Duke University School of Law “Mark of the Devil: Universities and the Disappearing Trademark Commons”
February 15
Bryan Bruns
Sociologist, Independent Consultant “Diagnosing Social Dilemmas in Commons”
February 22
Sarah Bauerle Danzman
International Studies, IU “The Big Screen: Global Crises and the Diffusion of Foreign Investment Review”
March 1
Brigham Daniels
Law School, Brigham Young University “Disaster Vulnerability in 3D”
March 8
Jackson Dorsey
Business Economics and Public Policy, IU “Soaking Up the Sun: Battery Investment, Renewable Energy, and Market Equilibrium”
March 15
Rebecca Bratspies
CUNY School of Law “Throwing It Away: Marshalling Commons Theory in Defense of Disposable Communities”
March 22
Anita Milman*
Environmental Governance, University of Massachusetts at Amherst “Concerns and Mechanism Choice under a Mandate for Inter-Agency Coordination”
March 29
Frank Marshalek
Geography, IU “The New Cuban Cooperatives: Towards Democratic Self-Regulation in a Command Economy”
April 5
Seth Frey
Department of Communication, UC Davis “Emergence of Integrated Institutions in a Large Population of Self-Governing Communities”
April 12
Anita Chaudhry
Department of Economics, California State University-Chico “Is California’s Water Market Supply-Constrained? Insights from a High-Resolution View”
April 19
Praneeta Mudaliar
Environmental Studies and Sciences, Ithaca College “When Promises Become Pathologies: Fragmentation in Lake Victoria’s Polycentric Fisheries in Tanzania”
April 26
Harini Nagendra
Azim Premji University “Linking Research with Practice: Some Experiments with Throwing Spaghetti at the Wall”
September 13
Achim Schlüter
Leibniz-Centre for Tropical Marine Research “From Securing Rights for Small-Scale Fishers to Property for ‘Efficient’ Producers: The Privatization of Scallop Production in Sechura Bay, Peru”
September 20
Todd Haugh
Kelley School of Business, IU “Leading a Healthier Company: Advancing a Public Health Model of Ethics and Compliance”
September 27
Gustavo Torrens
Economics, IU “Who is the Ultimate Boss of Legislators: Voters, Special Interest Groups or Parties?”
October 4
Andrea Silva
University of North Texas “State Immigration Policy and Direct Democracy Mechanisms: Political Opportunity Structures and Political Actors”
October 11
Art Carden
Samford University “Consumer Sovereignty and W.H. Hutt’s Critique of the Color Bar”
October 18
Ruth Meinzen-Dick
International Food and Policy Research Institute “Migration and Gender Dynamics of Irrigation Governance in Nepal”
October 25
Gareth Haysom
African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town “Socio-Material ‘Griddedness’ and its Role in Driving Food System Outcomes in African Cities”
November 1
Michael Mattioli
Maurer School of Law, IU “FDA's Privacy Halo”
November 8
Michael Makowsky
Clemson University “Firearms and Violence Under Jim Crow”
November 15
Dan Bernhardt
University of Illinois & University of Warwick “Demagogues and the Fragility of Democracy”
November 22
Thanksgiving Break
November 29
Angela Babb
Sustainable Food Systems Science, IU “Geographical Indications and Sustainable Food Systems”
December 6
Nathan Cook
O'Neill School, IU Indianapolis “How Natural Resource Decentralization Reshapes Inequality”
January 27 — Philip Keefer
Inter-American Development Bank — “The Impact of Social Ties and Third-Party Enforcement on Collective Action and Growth: Micro Evidence from Peru”
February 3 — Apu Kapadia
Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, & Engineering, IU — “Sanctioning Strategies to Maintain Social Norms and Privacy on Social Media”
February 10 — Kerry Krutilla
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, IU — “Implementing Precaution in Benefit-Cost Analysis: The Case of Deep Seabed Mining”
February 17 — Luca Opromolla*
Banco de Portugal — “Goods and Factor Market Integration: A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement”
February 24 — Claudia Avellaneda
O’Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs, IU — “I’d Rather do it Myself: An Experiment on Mayoral Preferences for Managerial Autonomy”
March 2 — Erik Nordman*
Grand Valley State University — “Analyzing Polycentric Climate Governance in the 2030 Districts Energy Program”
March 9 — Hans Klein
Georgia Tech — “Information-based Governance and Cross-border Information Flows: The Structural Alliance between Domestic Dissent and Foreign Subversion”
March 16 — Spring Break —
April 6 — Marco Casari
University of Bologna and Stanford University — “Institutional Change in Property Rights: Model and Evidence of a Centuries-Long Dynamic”
[No Archived Live Stream]
April 13 — Gustavo Torrens
Political Economy Program Director and Economics, IU — “Hidden Drivers of Violence Diffusion: Evidence from Illegal Oil Siphoning in Mexico”
April 20 — David Stadelmann
Department of Business, Economics, & Law, University of Bayreuth — “Certified Coronavirus Immunity as a Resource and Strategy to Cope with Pandemic Costs”
September 14 — Michael D. McGinnis
Professor Emeritus, Political Science, IU – “When is Polycentric Governance Sustainable? Using Institutional Theory to Identify Endogenous Drivers of Dysfunctional Dynamics”
September 21 – William Kindred Winecoff & Sarah Bauerle Danzman
Political Science & Hamilton Lugar Global Studies, IU – “Public-Private Partnerships? The Social Connections between Business and Government in Comparative Context”
September 28 – David Soto-Oñate
Department of Applied Economics, University of Vigo – “Heterogeneous Effects of Liberal Institutions on Economic Development: The Role of Cultural Coherence with Formal Institutions”
October 5 – Sheila Foster*
Urban Law and Policy, Georgetown University – “Ostrom in the City: Conceptualizing the (New) Urban Commons”
October 12 – Bryan Leonard*
School of Sustainability, Arizona State University – “Property Rights without Transfer Rights: A Study of Indian Land Allotment"
October 19 – Insa Theesfeld*
Agricultural, Environmental, and Food Policy, Martin Luther University – "Explaining the Existence of Pseudo-Commons in Post-Communist Countries”
October 26 – Esther Blanco*
Department of Public Finance, University of Innsbruck – “Incentivizing Public Good Provision through Outsider Transfers: Experimental Evidence on Sharing Rules and Additionality Requirements”
November 2 – Susan Ariel Aaronson
International Affairs, George Washington University – “Data is Dangerous: Comparing the Risks that the US, Canada and Germany see in Data Troves”
November 9 – Rick Harbaugh
Kelley School of Business, IU – “Subversive Conversations”
November 16 – Deborah Housen-Couriel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Haifa – “Polycentric Regulatory Models for the Safeguarding of Personal Data Privacy and IP in Cyber Information Sharing Platforms”
January 28 — Jeffrey Staton
Department of Political Science, Emory University
“Can Courts Be Bulwarks of Democracy?”
February 4 — Max Schanzenbach
Pritzker School of Law, Northwestern University
“Good Cop, Bad Cop: Using Civilian Allegations to Predict Police Misconduct”
February 11 — Jessica Eaglin
Maurer School of Law, IU; with guest commentator Virginia Eubanks, Department of Political Science, University at Albany, SUNY
“Sentencing’s Technological Counternarrative”
February 18 — Abbey Stemler
Business Law & Ethics, Kelley School of Business, IU
“Supracompetitive Privacy”
February 25 — Fred H. Cate
Vice President for Research, Mauer School of Law, IU
“AI Governance Challenges and Mistakes We Might Avoid Repeating”
March 4 — Canceled —
March 11 — SPRING BREAK —
March 18 — Ryan Calo
School of Law, University of Washington
“Rules for Artifacts”
March 25 — Michael Alexeev Department of Economics, IU
“The Impact of Institutional Quality on Manufacturing Sectors in Russia: Panel Data Analysis”
April 1 — Gustavo Torrens
Department of Economics, IU — “Property Rights and Domestication”
April 8 — Lee Alston
Ostrom Workshop, IU
“The Logic of Leadership and Organizational Hierarchies”
April 15 — Ronald Deibert
Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
“A Tale of Two Cyber Conflicts: Civil Society and Commercial Threat Reporting”
April 22 — Vanessa Casado Pérez
Texas A&M School of Law
“Liquid Business”
September 9 — Research Summaries Roundtable with IU Affiliates
Research Summaries Roundtable
[No Live Stream]
September 16 — John Head
School of Law, University of Kansas — “Deep Agroecology and A New Homeric Epic: Our Longest Day of Battle, Our Final Journey Home”
[Due to technical difficulties, there is no live stream of this talk.]
September 23 — David Stadelmann*
Department of Business, Economics, & Law, University of Bayreuth
“More Federal Legislators Lead to more Resources for their Constituencies: Evidence from Exogenous Differences in Seat Allocations”
September 30 — Jill Clark
John Glenn College of Public Affairs, Ohio State University — “Building Deliberative Places and Spaces: Making Sense of the Power of Food Movements in Governance Processes in the Global North”
October 7 — Doc Searls
Fellow of the Center for Information Technology & Society, UC Santa Barbara — “What the Internet Makes of Us”
October 14 — Cyanne Loyle
Department of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University — “Ruling Rebellions: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups”
October 21 — Jen King
Center for Internet & Society, Stanford Law School — “Integrating Privacy, Personal Disclosure, and Social Exchange Theory: An Experimental Test”
October 28 — R. Richard Geddes
College of Human Ecology, Cornell University — “Institutional Economics and the Cost of Capital”
November 4 — Paul W. Rhode
Deaprtment of Economics, University of Michigan — “The Origins of Economic Regulation in the United States: The Interstate Commerce and Bureau of Animal Industry Acts”
November 11 — Tabrez Ebrahim*
California Western School of Law — “Patenting Deep Learning”
November 18 — Stefan Kolev*
University of Applied Sciences Zwickau
“Antipathy for Heidelberg, Sympathy for Freiburg? Vincent Ostrom on Max Weber, Walter Eucken, and the Compound History of Order”
November 25 — Thanksgiving Break —
December 2 — Robert Kravchuk
O'Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs, IU — “Elements of a Post-Keynesian Public Finance: Contributing Concepts from Modern Monetary Theory”
December 9 — Amy Pond
Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University — “Political Ownership”
January 22 — Diane Henshel
School of Public & Environmental Affairs, IU
“Integrating Attackers, Defenders, and National Culture into Cybersecurity Risk Models”
January 29 — Gertjan Plets
Department of History & Art History, Utrecht University
“Well-Oiled Cultural Politics in the Altai Republic: Promoting Indigenous Heritage in Gazprom’s Resource Colonies”
February 5 — Cyanne E. Loyle
Department of Political Science, IU
“Rebel Governance and Judicial Process during Armed Conflict”
February 12 — William Bianco
Department of Political Science, IU
“Selling Science: New Insights into Measuring Research Productivity”
February 19 — Charles Trzcinka
Kelley School of Business, IU
“A Tangled Tale of Training and Talent: PhDs in Institutional Assest Management”
February 26 — Jean-Paul Faguet
London School of Economics
“The Paradox of Land Reform, Inequality, and Development in Colombia”
March 5 — CANCELLED
March 12 — SPRING BREAK
March 19 — Aurelian Craiutu
Department of Political Science, IU
“A Voice of Moderation in the Age of Revolutions: Jacques Necker’s Reflections on Executive Power in Modern Society”
March 26 — Tulia Falleti
Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
“Social Origins of Institutional Strength: Prior Consultation over Extraction of Hydrocarbons in Bolivia”
April 2 — J. Terrence McCabe
Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Boulder
“The Emergence of the Village and the Erosion of Traditional Institutions: A Case Study from Northern Tanzania”
April 9 — Karen Clay
Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
“The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Resources on Economic Outcomes: Evidence from the United States 1936–2015”
April 16 — Robert Gibbons
MIT Sloan School of Management and NBER
“Culture and Institutions” Meets “culture in organizations”
April 23 — Benjamin Cashore
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
“The Tragedy of the Diffusion of the Commons Metaphor: Bringing the Environment Back in to Environmental Studies”
April 30 — Miriam Golden
Department of Political Science, UCLA
“Reelection, Political Selection, and Development”
September 10 — Research Summaries Roundtable with IU Affiliates
Research Summaries Roundtable
[No Live Stream]
September 17 — David Bosco
School of Global & International Studies, IU
“Trends in Ocean Governance: Ending Freedom of the Seas?”
September 24 — David Skarbek
Department of Political Science, Brown University
“When Prison Officials Fail to Govern: Self-Governance in Mexico, Brazil, and Bolivia”
October 1 — Milton Mueller
Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy
“Institutionalizing Transnational Cyber Attribution”
October 8 — Salome Viljoen
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
“Coercion and Distribution in Big Data: A Law and Political Economy Approach in Privacy Law”
October 15 — Jerome Busemeyer
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, IU
“Progress Review after 10 Years of Applying Quantum Probability to Judgment and Decision Making”
October 22 — Danielle Jung
Department of Political Science, Emory University — “Community Justice and the Decay of Legitimacy”
October 29 — Becca Jablonski
Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, Colorado State University
“Measuring the Stock of Rural Wealth: Coalescing County-Level Measures”
November 5 — Benito Arruñada*
Department of Economics & Business, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
“Who Knows Better on the Rule of Law?”
November 12 — Raquel Hill
School of Informatics, Computing & Engineering, IU — “Combating Workflow Failures with Integrity-Based Checkpoints and Blockchain”
November 19 — Thanksgiving Break
November 26 — Austin Carson
Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
“Secrets in Global Governance: A Theory of Sensitive Information, Disclosure Dilemmas, and International Cooperation”
December 3 — Sarah Bauerle Danzman
Department of International Studies, IU
“Explaining Deference: Why and When Do Policymakers Think FDI Needs Tax Incentives?”
January 23 — F. Andrew Hanssen
Economics, Clemson University
“Engineering the Rule of Law in Ancient Athens”
January 30 — Jean Ensminger
Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology
“Corruption in Community-Driven Development: A Kenyan Case Study with Insights from Indonesia”
[no live stream]
February 6 — Claudia Avellaneda
School of Public & Environmental Affairs, IU
“Local Government Effectiveness: Assessing the Role of Administrative Capacity”
February 13 — Nikos Zirogiannis
School of Public & Environmental Affairs, IU
“Projecting the Impact of the Clean Power Plan on SO2 and NOx Emissions: An Empirical Approach”
February 20 — Susan Williams
Maurer School of Law, IU
“Dialogic Democracy, Feminist Theory, and Women’s Participation in Constitution-Making”
February 27 — No colloquium
March 6 — John Ferejohn
Law, New York University
“California's Groundwater: A Political Economy”
March 13 — SPRING BREAK
March 20 — Tonja Jacobi
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
“Justice, Interrupted: Gender, Ideology, and Seniority in Oral Arguments”
March 27 — Melani Cammett
Department of Government, Harvard University
“Political Context, Organizational Mission, and the Quality of Social Services: Insights from the Health Sector in Lebanon”
April 3 — Robert Fleck
Economics, Clemson University
“Increasing the Value of Property Rights by Limiting Transferability”
April 10 — Kenneth Shepsle
Department of Government, Harvard University
“Rules and Rule Breaking, Institutions and Institutional Change”
April 17 — Richard Hornbeck
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
“Engines of Productivity Growth: Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing”
April 24 — Nathan Nunn
Department of Economics, Harvard University
“Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change”
September 11 — David Stadelmann
Department of Economics, University of Bayreuth, Germany
“Politicians Change Their Behavior and Seek the Public Interest after Achieving Office”
September 18 — Angie Raymond
Kelley School of Business, IU
“Information and the Regulatory Landscape: A Growing Need to Reconsider Existing Legal Frameworks”
September 25 — Murat Iyigun*
Department of Economics, University of Colorado
“The Ideological Roots of Institutional Change”
October 2 — Hyeran Jo
Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University
“Weapon of the Weak? Rebel Groups’ International Law Talk, 1974-2011”
October 9 — Margaret Levi
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
“Conflict, Institutions, and Public Law: Reflections on Twentieth-Century America as a Developing Country”
October 16 — David Victor
School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California-San Diego
“An Experimentalist Approach to Governing Global Climate Change”
October 23 — Scott Shackelford
Kelley School of Business, IU
“Cyber War and Peace: Governing New Frontiers in the Information Age”
October 30 — Xavier Basurto
Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
“Finding Order Amid Complex Small-Scale Fisheries Self-Governance Arrangements: A ‘Beyond-Harvesting’ Research Agenda for Common-Pool Resources Theory”
November 6 — Dominic Parker*
Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Property and Poverty on American Indian Reservations”
November 13 — Kent Portney
Department of Public Administration, Texas A&M University
“Governing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Solving a Common-Pool Resource Challenge?”
November 20 — THANKSGIVING BREAK
November 27 — James Farmer
School of Public Health, IU
“Extending the Design Principles for Common-Pool Resource Governance to Conservation Easements on Private Lands”
December 4 — Marco Janssen
School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
“Playing Games to Save Water: Collective Action Games for Groundwater Management in Andhra Pradesh, India”
January 25 — David Samuels
Department of Political Science,
University of Minnesota — “Inequality and Democratic Survival”
February 1 — Barbara Cherry
The Media School, IU Bloomington
“Historical Distortion: How Misuse of ‘Public Utility’ and ‘Natural Monopoly’ Misdirects U.S. Telecommunications Policy Development”
February 8 — Gary D. Libecap
Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara — “Economic Analysis of Property Rights: First Possession of Water in the American West”
February 15 — Lee Alston
Ostrom Workshop and Department of Economics, IU Bloomington
Bernardo Mueller
Department of Economics, University of Brasilia
Tomas Nonnenmacher
Department of Economics, Allegheny College — “Institutions and Interest Groups: Economic and Political Performance”
February 22 — Laszlo Borhi
Department of Central Eurasian Studies,
IU Bloomington — “More than Victims? Popular Responses to National Socialist and Stalinist Dictatorships: The Case of Hungary”
February 29 — William Blomquist
Department of Political Science, IU Indianapolis — “Implementing California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA)”
March 7 — James Robinson
Harris School of Public Policy,
University of Chicago — “The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom”
March 14 — SPRING BREAK —
March 21 — Eduardo Brondizio
Department of Anthropology,
IU Bloomington — “Smallholders’ Partnerships in the Brazilian Amazon: Civil, Public, and Private Sectors”
March 28 — Christiana Ochoa
Maurer School of Law, IU Bloomington — “Contracts on the Seabed”
April 4 — David Konisky
School of Public & Environmental Affairs, IU Bloomington — “Policy Devolution and Cooperation Dilemmas”
April 11 — Terry M. Moe
Department of Political Science, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution — “Relic: How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government—And Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency”
April 18 — Hiroki Takeuchi
Department of Political Science,
Southern Methodist University — “The New Trend in Japanese Domestic Politics and Its Implications”
April 25 — Cary Coglianese
School of Law, University of Pennsylvania — “Promoting Self-Governance via Public Recognition: Lessons from EPA’s Performance Track and OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Programs”
September 12 — David Delaney
University of Maryland School of Law
“Behavioral Public Choice Theory, U.S. National Security Interests, and Transnational Security Decision Making”
[Final paper, revised 2017]
September 19 — Eric Talley
Columbia Law School
“Contracting Out of the Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty: An Empirical Analysis of Corporate Opportunity Waivers”
September 26 — James Walker
Economics, IU Bloomington
“Provision of Public Goods: Unconditional and Conditional Donations from Outsiders”
October 3 — Yan Long
International Studies, IU Bloomington
“Domesticating a Dragon: The Contradictory Impact of Transnational AIDS Institutions on State Repression in China, 1989–2013”
October 10 — Saba Siddiki
School of Public & Environmental Affairs, IU Indianapolis
“Designing Effective Policy: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study of School District Wellness Policies in Florida”
October 17 — Christopher Costello
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Natural Resource Federalism: Preferences versus Connectivity for Patchy Resources”
October 24 — Alex Lichtenstein
History, IU Bloomington
“Consumption, Productivity, and Crisis: Remaking South Africa’s Apartheid Workplace in the 1970s”
October 31 — Phil Stafford
Center on Aging and Community, Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, IU Bloomington
“The Global Movement for Age-Friendly Communities”
November 7 — Jessica Steinberg
International Studies, IU Bloomington
“Common-Pool Resources, Spillover Effects, and Local Security”
November 14 — Leonard Wantchekon
Department of Politics, Princeton University
“The Curse of Good Soil? Land Fertility, Roads, and Rural Poverty in Africa”
November 21 — THANKSGIVING BREAK
November 28 — Tom Evans
Geography, IU Bloomington
“Seed Choice and Misinformation among Smallholder Farmers in Africa”
December 5 — Charles Kolstad
Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University
“Regulating Carbon in a Small Open Economy”
- 1-26-15: Resolving the Authoritarian Dilemma: Policy Outcomes and Political Control in the Hong Kong Legislative Council
Professor William Bianco, Department of Political Science, IUB - 2-2-15: Formal Institutions and the IAD Framework: Bringing the Law Back In
Professor Daniel Cole, Mauer School of Law, IUB
- 2-9-15: Where is the Ecology in Social-Ecological Systems Research? A Review of Methods
Dr. Adena Rissman, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- 2-12-15: The Violence Trap: A Political-Economic Approach to the Problems of Development
Professor Barry Weingast, Ward C. Krebs Family Professor, Department of Political Science; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
- 2-23-15: A Preliminary Report on the Strategic Plan
Professor Lee Alston, Ostrom Workshop Director; and Addie Backlund, Consultant - 3-2-15: Fiscal Federalism and Legislative Malapportionment: Causal Evidence from Independent but Related Natural Experiments
Dr. Gustavo Torrens, Department of Economics, IUB
- 3-9-15: Who Responds to U.S. News & World Report's Law School Rankings?
Professor Jeffrey Stake, Mauer School of Law, IUB; and Professor Michael Alexeev, Department of Economics, IUB
- 3-23-15: River Basin Councils as Action Arenas: Analyzing Rules and Norms in the Lerma-Chapala River Basin Council Using the IAD Framework
Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega, Public Administration Division, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, CIDE Region Centro, Aguascalientes, Mexico
- 3-25-15: Civic Participation in Public Goods Provision: The Efficacy of Institutional Reforms in Kenya's Constituency Development Fund
Kirk Harris, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, IUB
- 3-30-15: Corporate Taxation and the Regulation of Early Twentieth-Century American Business
Professor Ajay Mehrotra, Mauer School of Law, IUB
- 4-1-15: Entrepreneurship, Corruption and Income Inequality
Farzana Chowdhury, Doctoral Candidate, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, IUB - 4-6-15: Fiscal Decentralization and Budget Discipline in Russia's Regions
Professor Michael Alexeev, Department of Economics, IUB
- 4-8-15: The Public Good Nature of the Urban Forest and Implications for Management
Shannon Watkins, PhD Student, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, IUB - 4-13-15: Applying Anthony Giddens' Structuration Theory to Committee Governance: Translating Theoretical Propositions into Methodological Principles
Dr. Mark Lock, ARC Discovery Indigenous Research Fellow, School of Medicine and Public Health, The University of Newcastle, Australia
- 4-15-15: Capabilities and Demand for Civic Engagement in the Development Policy Process: Cases from Mexico and India
Dr. Forrest Fleischman, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management; Texas Agrilife Research, Texas A&M University; and Dr. Claudia Rodriguez Solorzano, Department of Environmental Studies, Dartmouth College - 4-20-15: Political Economy of Crony Capitalism
Dr. Armando Razo, Department of Political Science, IUB - 4-24-15: Revisiting The Communist Manifesto
James Farr, Professor of Political Science; Director, Chicago Field Studies, Northwestern University - 4-27-15: Biasing Access to Justice: A Social Psychological and Experimental Investigation of the Signaling Effect of Pro Se Status
Dr. Victor Quintanilla, Mauer School of Law, IUB
September 14 — IU Workshop Affiliated Faculty (WAF) —
Research Summaries (Session I) by IU WAF
September 21 — Victor Menaldo
Department of Political Science, University of Washington — “The Fiscal Roots of Urban Bias”
September 28 — Dean Lueck
Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Arizona — “The Evolution and Organization of Environmental Agencies: From Game Laws to Hierarchical Bureaucracy”
October 5 — Noam Yuchtman
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley — “Identifying Ideology: Experimental Evidence on Anti-Americanism in Pakistan”
October 12 — Eric Rasmusen
Kelley School of Business, IU Bloomington — “Law, Coercion, and Expression”
October 19 — Brian Broughman
Maurer School of Law, IU Bloomington — “The Cost of Supermajority Target Shareholder Approval: Mergers versus Tender Offers”
October 26 — Timothy Hellwig
Department of Political Science, IU Bloomington — “The Other Side of Neoliberalism: Policy Regimes and Economic Accountability in Latin America”
November 2 — Sebastian Galiani
Department of Economics, University of Maryland — “The Causal Effect of Competition on Prices and Quality: Evidence from a Field Experiment”
November 9 —
IU Workshop Affiliated Faculty (WAF) — Research Summaries (Session II) by IU WAF
November 16 — Thad Dunning
Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley — “Is Paying Taxes Habit-Forming? Evidence from a Tax Holiday Lottery in Uruguay”
November 23 — NO COLLOQUIUM — THANKSGIVING RECESS
November 30 — Victor Fleischer
School of Law, University of San Diego — “Alpha: Labor is the New Capital”
December 4
(Friday) — Gar Alperovitz
Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy, University of Maryland — “The Political Economy of The Next System: Theory and Practice”
December 7 — Mostafa Beshkar
Department of Economics, IU Bloomington — “Cap and Escape in Trade Agreements”
- 1-13-14: Science, Values and Decision-Making for Sustainability Professor Thomas Dietz, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University
1-24-14: Inequality and American Capitalism
James Piereson, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, New York; and Professor Leslie Lenkowsky, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, IUB1-27-14: Preemptive Deforestation and Land Occupation: Responsibility and Social Process Drivers of Deforestation in the Eastern Amazon
Professor Stephen Aldrich, Department of Earth & Environmental Systems, Indiana State University2-3-14: Will the Environment Survive a Renewed Middle East Peace Process? A Blueprint for Progress
Professor Alon Tal, Visiting Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford University2-5-14: The Effects of Endowment Size, Heterogeneity and History in a Binary-Choice Experiment with Positive Spillovers
Andrea Lockhart, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, IUB2-7-14: Free Market Fairness
Professor John Tomasi, Department of Political Science, Brown University; and Dr. Vasabjit Banerjee, Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of International Studies, IUB2-10-14: Future Earth and the Evolution of Global Environmental Change Research Programs
Professor Eduardo Brondizio, Department of Anthropology, IUB2-12-14: Community Management of Urban Electricity in the UK
Emilia Melville, Research Engineer, Sustainability and Physics, Buro Happold Ltd., UK2-17-14: The Status Quo and Perceptions of Fairness: How Income Inequality Influences Public Opinion
Dr. Kris-Stella Trump, Department of Government, Harvard University
2-24-14: Natural Gas Shale Plays as Common-Pool Resources: Conceptualization and Implications
Dr. Gwen Arnold, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis2-26-14: Surviving Conflict: How Foreign Intervention Affects Displacement Patterns
Justin Schon, PhD student, Department of Political Science, IUB2-28-14: From Open Secrets to Secret Voting
Professor Isabela Mares, Department of Political Science, Columbia University2-28-14: Gone With the Wind: The Strategic Placement of Air Polluters
Dr. David M. Konisky, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University3-3-14: Climate Change Perception and Adaptation in the Context of Multiple Stressors: A Case Study of Smallholder Farmers in Northwest China
Dr. Zhao Ma, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University3-5-14: Urban Green Commons for Social Transformation: The Case of Community Gardens in Madrid, Spain
Irene Iniesta Arandia, PhD student, Department of Ecology, Autonomous University of Madrid; Workshop Visiting Scholar3-10-14: Social-Ecological Transitions and Vulnerability in an African Pastoralist System
Dr. Elizabeth King, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia3-12-14: Does It Help to See a National AIDS Commissions as a Commons?
Professor Peter Heywood, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney; Workshop Visiting Scholar3-24-14: Participation and Spatial Coordination in Conservation Incentive Schemes: Role of Transaction Costs and Localized Communication
Dr. Simanti Banerjee, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Oberlin College3-26-14: Institutional Analysis of Policy Designs: Methods, Theories, and Illustrations
Dr. Christopher Weible and David Carter, PhD Student, School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado Denver; and Dr. Saba Siddiki, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Indianapolis3-27-14: Rationality for Mortals
Professor Gerd Gigerenzer, Center for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development3-31-14: Building Cyberinfrastructure Capacity for the Social Sciences
Professor Emilio Moran, Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University4-2-14: Understanding the Missing Tool in the Development Toolbox: An Assessment of the Dilemmas Facing Co-operative Business Ownership Typologies
Dr. Keith Taylor, Workshop Visiting Scholar4-7-14: Regulating Big Data Pools
Professor Michael Mattioli, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, IUB4-9-14: Understanding the Commons: The Reception of Elinor Ostrom's Work in Italian Scholarship, Law, and Jurisprudence
Maria Beatrice Vanni, PhD Candidate, Administrative Law, University of Milan; Workshop Visiting Scholar4-11-14: Critical Junctures: Independence Movements and Democracy in Africa
Léonard Wantchékon, Department of Politics, Princeton University4-14-14: The Possible Unraveling of Elite Utopian Dreaming: Rumblings In and Outside Post-Genocide Rwanda As An African Home Grown Democracy
Professor John Stanfield, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, IUB4-17-14: Afghanistan: A Turbulent State in Transition
Dr. Amin Saikal, ANU-IU Pan Asia Institute Distinguished Scholar4-18-14: The Relevance of the Bloomington School
Professor Peter Boettke, Mercatus Center; Department of Economics, George Mason University4-21-14: Does Giving ‘Nature’ a History Redefine the Commons in India?
Professor Kathleen Morrison, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago4-25-14: Liberalism and the Morality of Commercial Society
Professor Jeremy Jennings, King’s College, University of London4-28-14: Buying Time: The Private Governance Response to Climate Change
Professor Michael P. Vandenbergh, David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law; Co-Director, Energy, Environment and Land Use Program; Director, Climate Change Research Network; Vanderbilt University Law School
9-8-14: An Appeal for Smarter Decisions
Professor Joseph Arvai, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University9-10-14: Campaign Spending, Poverty Levels and Electoral Outcomes in Brazil
Dr. Dalson Britto Figueiredo Filho, Department of Political Science, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil; Ostrom Workshop Visiting Scholar9-17-14: Pakistan’s Strategic Obsession and the Road to Catastrophe: Is There a Way Out?
Jagmohan Meher, Senior Fulbright-Nehru Fellow, Department of Political Science, IUB9-22-14: The Political Transaction Costs and Uncertainties of Establishing Environmental Rights
Professor Kerry Krutilla, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, IUB (coauthor: Alexander Alexeev, Visiting Research Fellow, Indiana Univ; and Environmental and Economic Risk Consulting, Odessa, Ukraine)
9-24-14: Is Displacement Rational? Explaining the Relationship between Information Flows and Displacement
Justin Schon, PhD Student, Department of Political Science, IUB9-29-14: Identifying Social Capacity to Address Non Point Source Pollution
Dr. Linda Prokopy, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University10-1-14: Forest Cooperation Forms and Governance Settings in South Eastern European Context: General Overview of Croatia and Serbia
Marina Miovska, FONASO PhD Fellow, Dept of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padua, Legnaro, Italy; Ostrom Workshop Visiting Scholar10-6-14: Data Provenance and Agent Based Models: Technological Contributions to Social Ecological Systems Research
Professor Beth Plale, School of Informatics and Computing, IUB10-8-14: Giving Rights to Nature: A New Institutional Approach for Overcoming Social Dilemmas?
Julia Talbot-Jones, PhD Candidate, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, Canberra; Ostrom Workshop Visiting Scholar10-13-14: Governments’ Environmental Policy Instruments: A Brief Overview of a New(ish) Framework
Professor Kenneth Richards, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, IUB10-15-14: Messy and Technical Governance of Renewable Energy: An Institutional Analysis of Consenting Biogas Plants in Germany
Melf-Hinrich Ehlers, Applied Economist, James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland,UK; Ostrom Workshop Visiting Scholar10-20-14: International Regional Governance: The Evolution of a New Institutional Form
Professor Gary Goertz, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
10-22-14: University-Industry Knowledge Transfer through an Institutionalist Lens: Of Actors, Rules and Power in Greater Manchester, England
Professor Christos Kalantaridis, School of Management, University of Bradford, UK; Ostrom Workshop Visiting Scholar10-27-14: Coding Formal Citizen Input Mechanisms in Local Government Charters
Dr. Cali Curley, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Indianapolis
10-29-14: Polycentricity and the Dispersal of Hierarchy: Digging into Vincent Ostrom’s Work
Dr. Mark Stephan, School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs, Washington State University; Ostrom Workshop Visiting Scholar11-3-14: Wikipedia and the Microphysics of Political Order
Dr. Simon DeDeo, School of Informatics and Computing, IUB11-5-14: A Model for Analyzing Sustainability of Malaria Control Policies: A Case Study at the Municipality of El Bagre (Colombia)
Dr. Walter Salas Zapata, School of Microbiology, University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia; Ostrom Workshop Visiting Scholar11-10-14: Financial Risk as a Common Pool: Competition, Capture, and Governance of a Networked System
Dr. W. Travis Selmier II, Affiliated Faculty, Ostrom Workshop, IUB; and Dr. W. Kindred Winecoff, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, IUB
11-12-14: Policy Regimes, Latent Constitutive Institutions, and Machine Learning Methodology: Examples from EU Energy Policy and City of Helsinki Environmental Policy
Dr. Arho Toikka, Social and Public Policy, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Finland; Ostrom Workshop Visiting Scholar11-17-14: Catalyzing Transformative Pathways to Decarbonization
Dr. Matthew Hoffmann, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada11-19-14: What is Africa’s ‘Energy’ Problem? Lessons from Uganda
Dr. Christopher Gore, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada12-1-14: The Production of Information in the Attention Economy
Dr. Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, School of Informatics and Computing, IUB12-3-14: Voluntary Disclosure of Contributions: An Experimental Study on Non-Mandatory Approaches for Improving Public Good Provision
Ursula Kreitmair, PhD Student, SPEA & Department of Political Science, IUB12-8-14: Finding a “Commons” in Roman Law (Public and Private Water Rights)
Dr. Cynthia Bannon, Department of Classical Studies, IUB
12-10-14: Governance of Trans-Provincial Water Pollution in Tai Lake, China: From the Perspective of Stakeholder Relations in the Case of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province
Hang (Anna) Zhang, PhD Student, Public Management, School of Government, Nanjing University, P.R. China; Ostrom Workshop Visiting Scholar
1-14-13: Policies and Perceptions: Using the Institutional Grammar Tool to Assess Policy Design, Appropriateness, and Coerciveness
Dr. Saba Siddiki, Assistant Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Indianapolis1-18-13: Two Presidents Are Better Than One: The Case for a Bipartisan Executive Branch
David Orentlicher, Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law and Co-Director of the William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health, Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN1-25-13: Condorcet’s Writings on the United States
Guillaume Ansart, Associate Professor of French, Department of French and Italian, Indiana University Bloomington1-28-13: Asset-Based Approaches to Economic Citizenship and Community Development: Lessons from the Field of International Development Practice
Dr. Alison Mathie, Manager, Research and Publications, Coady International Institute, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada2-4-13: Improving and Combining the SES and IAD Frameworks
Professor Daniel Cole, Professor of Law and of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Affiliated Faculty, Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University Bloomington; Michael McGinnis, Professor of Political Science, and Affiliated Faculty, Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University Bloomington; and Graham Epstein, Graduate Student, Indiana University Bloomington2-11-13: Applying the IAD Framework to Ecological Restoration in the Chicago Wilderness
Dr. Cristy Watkins, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Social Sciences, The Field Museum, Environment, Culture, and Conservation, [ECCo], Chicago, IL; and Dr. Lynne Westphal, Project Leader and Research Social Scientist, USDA, Northern Research Station, People and Their Environments, Evanston, IL2-13-13: Fairness and Faith in the American Economy
Jacob Bower-Bir, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science and School of Public and Environmental Affairs joint program, Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University Bloomington2-18-13: State Revenue Forecasts as Political and Technical Problems: The Value of Consensus Forecasting and Forecast Acceptance in the Budget Process
Dr. Justin Ross, Assistant Professor of Public Finance, School of Public and Environmental Affairs; and Affiliated Faculty, Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University Bloomington
Paper2-20-13: Strategic Rule Formation Under Externalities: Multilevel Institutional Analysis Using Network Formation Games
Luke Shimek, Joint PhD Student, Department of Political Science and School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington2-25-13: Democratically Owned and Controlled Businesses: Identifying Common and Unique Expectations of Co-op Board Governance Systems
Dr. Arthur Sherwood, Associate Professor, Scott College of Business at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN; Co-Chair, The Co-op Research Project; Consultant, CDS Consulting Cooperative; and Visiting Scholar, Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University Bloomington2-27-13: Information, Signaling, and Public Goods: An Experimental Study of Conditional Cooperation
Ursula Kreitmair, Joint PhD Student, Department of Political Science and School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University Bloomington3-4-13: The American Lawn as a Socio-Ecological System—An Analysis of Psychological and Social Predictors of Fertilizer Application
Amanda Carrico, Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN3-6-13: Groups, Dictators, and Unequal Pay: An Experimental Study of Group Decision-Making and Membership Effects in Heterogeneous Groups
Ursula Kreitmair, Joint PhD Student, Department of Political Science and School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Ostrom Workshop; and Jacob Bower-Bir, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science and School of Public and Environmental Affairs joint program, Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University Bloomington3-18-13: Psychological Effects of Public Participation and Economic Enforcement within a Commons Experiment
Daniel DeCaro, Postdoctoral Researcher, Ostrom Workshop, and Goldstone Percepts and Concepts Lab, Indiana University Bloomington; and Affiliate, Center for Land Use and Environmental Responsibility, and Lecturer, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville3-20-13: Leadership and Social-Ecological Outcomes in IFRI Forests
Sanchayan Nath, Joint PhD Student, Department of Political Science and School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University Bloomington3-25-13: A Research Agenda for a Polycentric European Union
Josephine van Zeben, Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University Bloomington3-27-13: Understanding the Brazilian Amazon Governance: Institutional Diversity and Social Network Analysis
Tiago Jacaúna, PhD Candidate in the Social Sciences, University of Campinas, Brazil; and Visiting Scholar, Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University Bloomington4-1-13: Ideas and Interests in Political Economy
Dani Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA4-3-13: Uncharted Waters: Applying the Lens of New Governance Theory to the Practice of Water Source Protection in Ontario
Patricia Hania, Graduate Student, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada4-5-13: Absent from the Universe? Latin American Political Theory in the Age of Nation-Building
José Antonio Aguilar Rivera, Visiting Fellow, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Notre Dame University, IN4-8-13: Collective Action to Avoid Catastrophe
Scott Barrett, Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY4-10-13: Homeowner Association in China: From Property Management Company Autocracy to Homeowner Self-Governance
Li Guoqing, Director of the Urban Policy and Urban Culture Research Center, Institute of Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China; and Visiting Scholar, Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University Bloomington4-12-13: Land Tenure, Institutional Diversity and Forest Resource Sustainability in the Sumaco Biosphere Reserve, Ecuador. An Analysis of the Socio Bosque Program
Claudia Konrad, PhD Candidate, Economic and Social Sciences, Trier University, Germany; Scholar, Transformation Research Cluster, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin; Consultant, Engagement Global, Bonn; and Visiting Scholar, Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University, Bloomington4-15-13: Where the Wild Things Are: Nature Tourism and Rural Politics in Southern Africa
Dr. Robin Turner, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN4-17-13: A Research Design for Evaluating the Outcomes of Neighborhood and Nonprofit Urban Forestry
Shannon Lea Watkins, Sarah Mincey, Jess Vogt, Rachael Bergmann, and Burney Fischer, Bloomington Urban Forestry Research Group at CIPEC, Indiana University Bloomington4-19-13: Civil Society and Antislavery in Tocquevillian Perspective
Seymour Drescher, University Professor of History and Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania4-22-13: Vincent Ostrom’s Revolutionary Science of Association
Dr. Michael Fotos, Lecturer, Department of Political Science and Ethics, Politics, and Economics, Yale University, New Haven, CT4-24-13: Institutional Analysis of China’s System of Environmental Taxes
Zhu Yukun, PhD Candidate in Public Finance at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China; and Visiting Scholar, Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University Bloomington5-7-13: Water-use in Rural Systems and the Incoherence of Water and Agricultural Policies in Europe: The Case of Andarax River Basin
Violeta Cabello, PhD Candidate, Human Geography Department, University of Seville, Spain; and Visiting Scholar, UMI 3157 CNRS: Water, Environment and Public Policy. Center for International and Interdisciplinary Research, University of Arizona, Tucson
- 9-9-13: Polycentric Resilience: Why Did State-Building Exercises Fail in Myanmar/Burma?
Professor Tun Myint, Department of Political Science, Carleton College
9-16-13: The Evolution of Watershed Institutions in the U.S.
Professor Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville9-18-13: Power, Networks and Violent Conflict: A Comparison of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
Professor Ídil Tunçer-Kílavuz, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Istanbul Medeniyet University; Workshop Visiting Scholar9-20-13: The Great Enrichment, 1800-2013: Ethics, Rhetoric, and Market-Tested Innovation
Professor Deirdre McCloskey, Department of Economics and History, University of Illinois at Chicago9-23-13: Towards a Method to Assess Ex-Post Regulatory Effectiveness: Applying Institutional Grammar to Tobacco Legislation in Mexico
Professor Salvador Espinosa, School of Public Affairs, San Diego State University9-30-13: Governance and the Problem of ‘Fit’ in Aquatic Systems
Professor Derek Armitage, Department of Environment and Resource Studies, University of Waterloo10-2-13: Product of Our Environment: The Effect of Institutions on the Use of Voting Heuristics
Nicholas D’Amico, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, IUB10-4-13: Rereading J.S. Mill
Professor Alan Ryan, Department of Politics, Princeton University10-7-13: The Design Principles: Ultimate and Proximate Causations in Food and Agriculture
Professor Michael L. Cook, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri, Columbia10-9-13: Scientific Rigor, Policy Relevance, and Radical Commons
Ryan Conway, PhD Student, Department of Political Science, IUB10-14-13: The Challenge of Offender Re-Entry: A Cooperative Response
Professor Ann Hoyt, Department of Consumer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison10-16-13: The Relationship between Private Property Rights in Land and Environmental Degradation: A Review of the Literature
Martin Delaroche, Research Assistant, Graduate Institute of Latin American Studies (IHEAL), University Paris 3 Sorbonne-Nouvelle; Workshop Visiting Scholar10-21-13: Commons at the Intersection of Peer Production, Citizen Science, and Big Data: Galaxy Zoo
Professor Michael J. Madison, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh10-23-13: The Brazilian-European Boundary in Amazonia: An IAD Study about Bilateral Resources
Raimundo Nonato Junior, Assistant Professor, Parana State University, UNICENTRO, Brazil; Workshop and ACT Visiting Scholar10-28-13: Agrobiodiversity and Environmental Governance: The Contested Social-Ecological Futures of Food and Land Use
Professor Karl Zimmerer, Department of Geography, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI), Penn State Institutes for Energy and the Environment (PSIEE), Pennsylvania State University10-30-13: A Tool for All People, but Not All Occasions: How Voting Heuristics Interact with Political Knowledge and Environment
Jacob Bower-Bir, PhD Candidate, Joint Program, School of Public and Environmental Affairs and Department of Political Science; and Nicholas D'Amico, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, IUB- 11-1-13: Capitalism and Inequality: What the Right and the Left Get Wrong
Professor Jerry Muller, Department of History, Catholic University of America
- 11-4-13: Institutional Collective Action: Network Collaboration among Cities for Regional Development and Sustainability
Professor Richard Feiock, Askew School of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University 11-6-13: Child Support and Mexican Labor Migration to the U.S.
Professor Bernard Trujillo, School of Law, Valparaiso University; Workshop Visiting Scholar11-11-13: Environmental Goods and Services on Private Lands: What Can be Learned from Common Pool Resource Theory about the Management of Spatially Diffuse Resources?
Professor Michael Drescher, School of Planning, University of Waterloo11-13-13: Institutionalizing Certification for Sustainability: Are Biofuel Certification Systems Fit for Purpose?
Christine Moser, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany11-20-13: Institutions of Public Information and the Problem of Regulatory Commitment
Ranjan Kumar Ghosh, PhD Candidate, Division of Resource Economics, Humboldt University Berlin; Workshop Visiting Scholar12-2-13: Ways to Interrelate Actor- and Transaction-Centered Frameworks in SES Research and Integrate Higher Level Governance?
Professor Andreas Thiel, Department of Agricultural Economics, Humboldt University Berlin; Workshop Visiting Scholar12-4-13: Are Different Kinds of Collective Action the Next Evolution in Addressing the U.S. Health Dilemma?
Evon Holladay, Vice President, Enterprise Intelligence, Catholic Health Initiatives; Workshop Visiting Scholar- 12-9-13: Common Property, Coaseian Bargains, and Efficient Collaboration
Professor Emerita Margaret McKean, Department of Political Science, Duke University
- 12-11-13: Voluntary Provision of Information and Public Goods: An Experimental Study
Ursula Kreitmair, Joint PhD Student, School of Public and Environmental Affairs and Department of Political Science, IUB
1-18-12: Constitutional-level Deliberations after Crises in Pakistan: Polycentric Governance and Political Islam
Anas Malik, Associate Professor, Political Science/Sociology and Associate Professor, International Studies Program, Xavier University, and Visiting Scholar at the Workshop1-23-12: Toward A Political Economy of Cost-Benefit Analysis
Professor Daniel H. Cole, Professor of Law and of Public and Environmental Affairs; Affiliated Faculty, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis1-25-12: War and Progressivity: Levels and Structures of Taxation in Western Europe and the United States, 1900–1945
Lucy Barnes, post doctoral fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford1-27-12: Universality and the European law of nations in the eighteenth century: The case of Turkey
Dr. Jennifer Pitts, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago1-30-12: Topic vs. Population: When Will “College Sophomores” Be Better Experimental Subjects than Adults?
Dr. Yanna Krupnikov, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, IUB (Paper joint project with Adam Seth Levine, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Cornell University)2-1-12: SES Framework
Workshop Working Group: Integrating Ecological Perspectives with the Social-Ecological Systems Framework; Graham Epstein, Coordinator2-6-12: Robust Yet Fragile
Professor J.B. Ruhl, David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair in Law, Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, TN2-8-12: Between the Landscape and the Game: Designing Virtual Environments for Education and Research in National Parks and beyond
Ellen Jameson, visiting research associate, Center for Research on Learning and Technology, School of Education, IUB2-13-12: Topic Modeling for Unstructured Textual Data: A Case Study from the IFRI Database
David Bender, graduate student, Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition (CRCC), IUB2-15-12: Habitability: some thoughts and problems in defining an institutional framework of analysis
Francesco Minora, visiting scholar, Workshop; post-doc researcher, Euricse European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises, Trento Italy2-20-12: Wait for It … Commons, Copyright and the Private Ordering of Scientific Publishing
Jorge Contreras, Visiting Associate Professor of Law, American University Washington School of Law02-22-12: Power for Development: The Political Economy of Collaborative Governance in Decentralized Energy Production in the Developing World
Lauren MacLean, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Political Science, IUB and Jennifer Brass, Asst. Professor, SPEA, IUB2-24-12: The Age of Sympathy
Dr. Ryan Hanley, Associate Professor of Political Science, Marquette University; Co-sponsored by the Tocqueville Program and the Workshop2-27-12: Human behavior and energy consumption – Perceptions, biases, and motivations
Dr. Shahzeen Attari, Assistant Professor, SPEA
Paper2-29-12: Yes We Can: One Horse Town to 100 Horsepower Town in 15 years
Binka Le Breton, writer and lecturer on environmental and human rights, Iracambi (Brazil)3-5-12: The scalar reorganization of natural resource governance in Europe: Comparing and theorizing about the transformation of Water and Marine Goverance in Spain, Portugal and Germany
Andreas Thiel, visiting scholar, Workshop; assistant professor at the Division of Resource Economics, Humboldt-University zu Berlin, Germany3-7-12: Elite capture, elite persistence and conflict in cross–scale linkages in the Mexican forest commons
Gustavo Garcia Lopez, doctoral student, SPEA, IUB3-19-12: Conflicts over the Commons- Communal Conflicts in Darfur and Eastern Sudan
Johan Brosché, doctoral student, Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala Universitet, and visiting scholar at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University3-21-12: Developments of the social-ecological systems framework
Michael Cox, Research Associate at the Workshop3-26-12: Governance in Muslim Societies mini-series The Many Meanings of dimuqratiyyah: Moroccan Islamiyun and the Recoding of Democracy
Ahmed Khanani, graduate student, Department of Political Science3-28-12: The Role of Ethical Standards in Individual and Group Decisions
David Krantz, Professor, Department of Psychology, Columbia University, NY NY4-2-12: Governance in Muslim Societies mini-series Polycentric Governance in Pakistan: Rules-in-Use and a Contested Constitutional Metanorm
Anas Malik, Associate Professor, Political Science/Sociology, Associate Professor, International Studies Program, Xavier University; and Visiting Scholar, Workshop4-4-12: Rules and Decision Making: Assessing Compliance through an Institutional Lens
Saba Siddiki, Assistant Professor, SPEA, IU Indianapolis4-9-12: Governance in Muslim Societies mini-series Approaching Study of Political Culture in Afghanistan with the IAD & SES Frameworks
Dr. Nazif Shahrani, Visiting Scholar at the Workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis & Professor Depts. of Anthropology, CEUS & NELC-Indiana University4-11-12: Addressing global sustainability challenges from the bottom up
Marco Janssen, Associate Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and the Director of the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity4-16-12: Connecting Complexities: Examining Issues in Mental Illness through a Focus on Networks
Professor Bernice Pescosolido, Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology; and Director, Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research, Schuessler Institute for Social Research, IUB4-18-12: The Role of Freewill and Public Participation in Institutional Fit: A Social-Psychological Perspective
Dan DeCaro, postdoctoral researcher and visiting scholar at the Workshop and the assistant director for Indiana University’s Interdisciplinary Experimental Laboratory4-23-12: Building Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in Less Developed Countries
Maria Carmen Lemos, associate professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor4-25-12: Cutting trees, raising cattle, and conservation in Amazonia: a temporal comparison of land use strategies under different institutional arrangements
Francisco Kennedy Souza, PhD Candidate with SPEA and associate student with the Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change (ACT)
8-27-12: Roundtable
Chair: Burney Fischer, Director of the Ostrom Workshop and Clinical Professor in SPEA, IUB9-5-12: Sharing the Burden: Law, Politics, and the Making of the Modern American Fiscal State, 1880–1930
Ajay K. Mehrotra, Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Law, and Louis F. Niezer Faculty Fellow; Adjunct Associate Professor of History, IUB9-10-12: Ecology of Games
Mark Lubell, Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Policy and Director, Center for Environmental Policy and Behavior9-12-12: Renewable Energy Policy Panacea? A Comparative Case Study of the Development Outcomes of the Ownership Model of Wind Energy
Keith Taylor, visiting scholar at the Ostrom Workshop9-17-12: The Co-evolution of Network Strucutre, Strategic Behavior, and Equilibrium Dynamics
Frank Page, Professor of Economics, IUB9-17-12: The Conservative Case Against the Constitution
Patrick Deneen, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame, and Frank Potenziani Chair of Constitutional Studies; co-sponsors: Tocqueville, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Wilmington, Delaware, and Ostrom Workshop9-19-12: Towards an interdisciplinary social-ecological systems (SES) framework
Graham Epstein, a student in the joint PhD program in Public Policy at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Department of Political Science9-24-12: Immigration, Wages, and a Sustainable Economic Future: Immigration as a Moral Issue
Lloyd Orr, Professor Emeritus, Economics, IU9-26-12: Alpine Common Property Institutions under Change: Conditions for Successful and Unsuccessful Collective Action of Alpine Farmers in the Canton Graubünden of Switzerland
Gabriela Landolt, doctoral student, Social Anthropology, Universität Bern Institut für Sozialanthropologie, and visiting scholar, Ostrom Workshop10-1-12: Commons in the Cultural Environment
Brett Frischmann, Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and Katherine Strandburg, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law10-3-12: A great transformation: Resettlement policies, institutions and metabolic patterns in the Tibetan rangelands
Jampel Dell'Angelo, Visiting scholar, Ostrom Workshop10-5-12: The political consequences of the moral point of view in Nietzsche and Weber
Tracy Strong, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego; co-sponsors: Tocqueville Program, Department of Political Science, and Center for the Theoretical Inquiry in Humanities10-8-12: Why “Club” Goods have Proliferated in Investment Finance
Travis Selmier III, PhD candidate, Department of Political Science, IUB10-10-12: Operationalizing the “E” in SES: Making Ecology Explicit in the Social-Ecological Systems Framework
Integrating Ecological Perspectives with the Social-Ecological Systems Framework working group at the Ostrom Workshop; Graham Epstein speaking, presentation based largely on work completed by Jessica Vogt and Sarah Mincey10-22-12: Mores and Institutions: Tocquevillian Insights and Postcommunist Democratizations
Venelin Ganev, Professor of Political Science, Miami University of Ohio; co-sponsors: Tocqueville and Ostrom Workshop- 10-24-12: Understanding robustness to disturbance through the theory of the commons: a Qualitative Comparative Analysis of responses to disturbances in five Spanish irrigation systems
Sergio Villamayor Tomas, PhD candidate, and Ostrom Workshop graduate student 10-26-12: Was Tocqueville Ever American?
Olivier Zunz, Commonwealth Professor of History, University of Virginia, Charlottsville; co-sponsors: Tocqueville, Center for Philantropy, and Ostrom Workshop10-29-12: Where Rivers Meet the Sea, the Political Ecology Of Water
Stephanie Kane, Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, IUB10-31-12: How could a network approach shed light on our understanding of the nature of state in post-conflict situations?
Timor Sharan, visiting scholar at the Ostrom Workshop11-2-12: Civil Religion: A Window into Perennial Themes of Political Philosophy? Horizons of Knowledge Lecture
Ronald Beiner, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto11-5-12: US Energy Policy and the Pursuit of Failure
Peter Grossman, Professor and Efroymson Chair, Economics, Butler University11-7-12: Public Health, Private Land, and the Police Power
Robin Craig, Professor and Associate Dean of Environmental Programs at Florida State11-12-12: Private Provisioning of Public Adaptation Goods: The Case of Irrigated Agriculture in Central Arizona
Abigail York, Assistant Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University11-14-12: Information and Common Pool Resources: An Experimental Study of Conditional Cooperation
Ursula Kreitmair, joint PhD program student in Public Policy of IU's School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Department of Political Science11-26-12: Getting Along On-Orbit: Behavioral and Institutional Underpinnings of U.S.-Russian Joint Operations of the ISS
William Bianco, Professor, Department of Political Science, IUB, and affiliated faculty, Ostrom Workshop, with Jeffrey Hill,Professor and Department Chair, Department of Political Science, Northeastern Illinois University, and Robert Landis, Technical Manager, Senior Engineer, NASA Goddard-Wallops Flight Facility11-28-12: Barriers and Bridges for Collective Action In Mediterranean Semi-Arid Watersheds. A Network Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems
Irene Iniesta, visiting scholar at the Ostrom Workshop12-3-12: Efficiency and/or Fairness? Understanding the Origins of Prior Appropriation in Early California
Mark Kanazawa, Professor of Economics, Carleton College12-5-12: The Relational Nature of the Coup D’état
Josef Woldense, a PhD student in Political Science at Indiana University Bloomington