Past Research Series
Ariana Gunderson: Searching for the Food Knowledge Commons in NYTCooking
Ivan L. Cruz: The Effects of the Mexican Drug War on Education
Andrew Berryhill: A Political Economy Analysis of National Fiscal Rule Design
Shannon Conley: The Role of Identity on Trust and Regulatory Compliance
Eytan Tepper: Polycentric Multilateralism & Space Governance
Britt Koehnlein: Building Symbolic Capacity through Vaccination Campaigns
Bao Tran Truong: Prevent the Tragedy of the Social Media Commons via Community-driven Governance
Julia Talbot-Jones: Rights of Nature and Freshwater Governance
The Water Governance Working Group: Climate Change and Incentives to Cooperate
Felipe Bravo Pena: The role of the Agricultural Knowledge System on smallholder agriculture
Stephanie Freeman-Day: Urban Forested Patches as Common-Pool Resources
Itai Beeri: The Case of Wild Boars in the Haifa Municipality
September 28
Phrueksaphong Visuthduangdusdee, National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand
“Sustaining Urban Commons through the Community Engagement: An Experience from Municipal Beach Area Development in Thailand”
October 12
Youness Achmani
“Implementing the Commons Approach on Urban (Re)development Projects: A Discussion from the Lens of Spatial Justice”
October 19
Paul Renfro
November 2
Amanda Craig Deckard, Microsoft
“Are Sustainability, Consumer Protection, and Security Outcomes at Odds? How Technology Regulation and Industry Commitments can Reconcile Competing and Complimentary Interests”
November 9
Chen Ji, Indiana University
“Penalty or Reward? The Role of Hybrid Identities in Social Enterprises' Resource Acquisition”
November 30
“Space Governance: An Introduction to the Workshop Working Group, Space Governance Conference Highlights, and Research by Jessy Kate Schingler”
December 7
Pythagoras Petratos, Coventry Business School
“Governing the Disinformation Commons”
January 26
Salih Yasun, Political Science, IU
“Co-Partisanship with Mayors, Institutional Performance and Citizen Trust in Local Governance Institutions: Evidence from Tunisia”
February 2
Homa Taheri, Economics, IU
“A Framework for Analyzing Safeguards at the World Trade Organization”
February 9
Tonya Dodez, Political Science, IU
“Fight or Flight? Examining the Electoral Consequences of Violence in Senegal”
February 16
Sheila Foster, Georgetown Law
Ostrom Book Club - The Cambridge Handbook of Commons Research Innovations
February 23
David Skarbek, Brown University
Ostrom Book Club - The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies around the World
March 2
Diego Barbosa-Vásquez, Jacobs School of Music, IU
“Opera Sustainability - Through Multilevel-Apprenticeship Programs at Opera Companies”
March 9
Scott Shackelford, Ostrom Workshop & Kelley School of Business, IU
Ostrom Book Club - Cyber Peace: Charting a Path Toward a Sustainable, Stable, and Secure Cyberspace
March 23
Krisztina Tury, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
“Under Pressure: Organizational Responses in the Changing Civic Space of Hungary”
March 30
Jaime Carini, Jacobs School of Music
“Thinking Like an Artisan: The Ostroms' Contribution to Political Economy”
April 6
Renzo de la Riva Aguero, O'Neill SPEA, IU
“Why Does Service-specific Municipal Administrative Capacity Affect the Performance of Simple and Complex Services Differently?”
April 13
Laura Calloway, Luddy School of Informatics, IU
“Investigating Privacy Concerns and Risk Perceptions After a Year of COVID”
April 20
Stephanie Freeman-Day, O'Neill SPEA, IU
“Forested Patches in Bloomington, IN, Past and Present: Sustainability, Perseverance, and Governance”
April 27
Wes Zebrowski, O'Neill SPEA, IU
“The Seed, Information, and Relations Network (SIRN) Framework: Adapting SES to Farmer Peer Networks”
February 3 — Ostrom Book Club with Bobbi Herzberg (Mercatus Center) & Vlad Tarko (University of Arizona)
"A Discussion on the Bloomington School of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom" (Ostrom’s Tensions & Elinor Ostrom: An Intellectual Biography)
Intro to Ostrom’s Tensions
Chapter - “Beyond a Precarious Balance: Improving the Scientific Rigor and Policy Relevance of Institutional Analyses from the Bloomington School”
February 10 — Jaime Carini
Jacobs School of Music, Ostrom Fellow — "Artifact, Artisanship, and Aesthetic Fact"
February 17 — Dafna Rachok
Anthropology, Ostrom Fellow — "Developmental Aid, Institutions, and HIV in Ukraine"
February 24 — Stanislav Budnitsky*
Russian Studies Workshop, IU — “Russia’s Digital Multipolarity: Toward a Cultural Theory of Internet Governance”
March 3 — Sacha Siani
Geography, Ostrom Fellow — “The Role of Monitoring and Law Enforcement on Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon”
March 17 — Michael Roberts*
University of Massachusetts Amherst — “Uncharted Groundwater: How a California County Made Sense of a Mandate to Manage Groundwater”
March 31 — Jorge Rios Allier
Anthropology, Research Awardee — “The Use of Institutional Analysis (IAD) for Defining Focal Action Situations in Mexican Cultural Heritage: PROCEDE-INAH and CONACULTA Outcomes after 1992 Reforms”
April 7 — Salih Yasun
Political Science, Research Awardee — “Bureaucrat-Local Politician Relations and Hierarchical Local Governance in Emerging Democracies: A Case Study of Tunisia”
April 14 — Panel of Ostrom Affiliates and Ostrom Fellows
“Teaching the Workshop’s History and Methods - A Roundtable Discussion”
April 21 — Ian Zhengyan Li
O’Neill SPEA, Research Awardee — “Alarmed but Unmoved: The Impact of the Provision of Correct Local Environmental Information”
April 28 — Jaime Carini
Jacobs School of Music, Ostrom Fellow — “Musical Style as an Institution: Rules and Human Behavior in Music Composition Practices”
September 22 — Ostrom Fellows & Research Awardees — Research Summaries Roundtable
October 6 — Ostrom Workshop & Early Career Network of the IASC — Discussion about Activities and Opportunities
October 20 — Jane Sell*
Texas A&M
“When Might Forgiveness Help Solve Social Dilemmas?”
October 27
12:00-1:00 pm — Erik Nordman*
Grand Valley State University
Ostrom Book Club - “The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom: Essential Lessons for Collective Action”
October 27, 2:00-3:00 pm — Anne MacKinnon & Bill Blomquist
Journalist & Butler University — Impact Stories - Water Governance in the Rural American West
Buy book - “Public Waters: Lessons from Wyoming for the American West”
November 3 — Angie Raymond
Data and Information Governance, Ostrom Workshop & Kelley School of Business, IU — Data & Digital Working Groups Overview
November 10 — Brett Frischmann
Villanova University — Ostrom Book Club - “Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons”
November 24 — Thanksgiving Break —
December 1 — Scott Shackelford
Director, Ostrom Workshop & Kelley School of Business, IU — Space Governance Working Group
- Earth-Space Sustainability
- Polycentric Multilateralism
- Past IASC Conference, Feb. 2021
- Port of Mars
December 8 — David Stadelmann
University of Bayreuth — Political Economy of Pandemics Working Group - “The Allocation of Scarce Health Resources: Evidence from the COVID-19 Scientist Survey”
February 5 — Zheng Zhou
Public Health, Ostrom Fellow — “Reduce Rice Consumption to Mitigate Inorganic Arsenic Exposure: Development and Evaluation of a Risk-Communication Intervention in College Rice Consumers”
February 12 — Ruta Śpiewak*
Rural Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences — “New Governance in Food Systems? Alternative Food Networks in Poland”
February 19 — Cate Racek
Research Development Specialist, Ostrom Workshop — “Grants 101: An Intro to External Funding”
February 26 — Salih Yasun
Political Science, Research Award — “Mechanisms of Local Governance in Emerging Democracies: A Case Study of Tunisia”
March 4 — Jorge Rios Allier
Anthropology, Ostrom Fellow — “Cultural Heritage Management in Mexico: Public Archaeology, Commons, Cultural Governance, and Ethical Issues”
March 11 — Greg Bloom*
Open Referral — “Averting Tragedy of the Resource Directory Anti-Commons: A Practical Approach to Open Data Infrastructure for Health, Human, and Social Services”
March 18 — Spring Break —
April 8 — Jieling Liu*
Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon — “Examining the Governance of Urban Ecological Commons in the Chinese Rapid Urbanization Context: Case Studies from Guangzhou”
April 15 — Tessa Steiniche
Anthropology, Ostrom Fellow — “Examining Anthropogenic Pollutants in a Social-Ecological System: A Case Study at Kibale National Park, Uganda”
September 16 — Research Summaries Roundtable
September 23 — Frank van Laerhoven
Environmental Governance, Universiteit Utrecht — “The Publication Game! Everything everyone expects you to know... (but that no one actually ever told you)” [No Paper]
September 30 — Kristy Anderson
Public Health, Research Award — “Regulatory Institutions, Immigration, and 'Gentefication': The Social-Ecological Context Shaping Responses to Soil Lead Contamination in Southeast Los Angeles”
October 7 — Polycentricity Working Group
October 14 — Space Governance Working Group
October 21 — Godfreyb Ssekajja
O’Neill SPEA — “Immigration, Ethnic Diversity and Public Goods Provisioning in Local Communities”
October 28 — Ostrom Book Club with Lisa Blomgren Amsler & Janet Martinez
O’Neill SPEA & Stanford Law School
“Dispute System Design: Preventing, Managing, and Resolving Conflict”
November 4 — Tonya Dodez
Political Science, Research Award
“Voting Against Violence: The Role of Civic Engagement in African Elections”
November 11 — Jordan Lynton
Anthropology, Ostrom Fellow — “Deconstructing Global Rhetorics of ‘Mutuality’ and 'Progress' Surrounding Chinese Development in Jamaica”
November 18 — Renzo de la Riva Aguero
Public Policy, Ostrom Fellow — “Is Governance Enough? Assessing Municipal Capacity and Organized Civil Society Participation for Complex Service Delivery”
February 6 — Marcela Slusarciuc*
Department of Human and Social Political Sciences, University „Stefan cel Mare” Suceava, Romania — “Quo vadis, cooperante?—Evolution of the Formal Framework of Cross-Border Institutions across Romania-Ukraine Border”
February 13 — Lu Zhou*
Ronald Coase Center for Property Rights Research, University of Hong Kong — “Property Rights, Transaction Costs, and Social Gains: An Analysis of China’s First Land Development Rights Market”
February 20 — Salih Yasun
Political Science — “Attitudes on Family Law as an Electoral Cleavage: Survey Evidence from Tunisia”
February 27 — Tetiana Bulakh
Anthropology and Russian and East European Institute, Ostrom Fellow
“Things That Matter: Humanitarian Aid and Citizenship among Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Ukraine”
March 6 — Zhi Wang
School of Public Health, Ostrom Fellow — “The Effects of Resilience in Mediating Adverse Childhood Experiences to Prescription Opioid Misuse among U.S. Adults”
March 13 — SPRING BREAK —
March 20 — Johabed Olvera
SPEA, Ostrom Research Awardee
“Improving Maternal Health through Prenatal Care Home Visits: Evidence from Mexico City”
March 27 — Ricardo Bello-Gomez
SPEA, Ostrom Fellow
“Interacting Capacities: National Bureaucracies’ Contribution to Subnational Performance”
April 3 — Lynne Kiesling
Department of Economics, Purdue University
Natural Resource Governance Speaker Series:
“From Airbnb to Solar: Toward a Transaction Cost Model of a Retail Electricity Distribution Platform”
April 10 — Connor Stangler
American History, Ostrom Fellow
“The Policy Laboratory: The Income Maintenance Experiments and Trial-and-Error in American Public Policy”
April 17 — Renzo de la Riva Agüero
SPEA/Political Science, Ostrom Research Awardee — “Opening the Black Box: Explaining the Effects and Mechanisms of Municipal Performance in Climate Change”
April 24 — Julio Alberto Ramos Pastrana
Economics, Ostrom Research Awardee — “Rules and Privatizing the Commons: Ejidos in Mexico”
October 2 — Research Summaries Roundtable — For students and visiting scholars to share research
October 9 — Mark Kanazawa*
Wadsworth A. Williams Professor of Economics, Carleton College — “Transaction Costs in Water Transfers: The Issue of Local Control”
October 16 — Ian Li
O’Neill SPEA, Ostrom Fellow & Research Awardee — “Truth Hurts? Mandatory Information Disclosure and Regulatory Activities”
October 23 — Anthony DeMattee
O’Neill SPEA/Political Science, Ostrom Research Awardee — “An Institutional Approach to Understanding the Development of CSO Regulatory Regimes: An Historical Analysis of the East African Community”
October 30 — Godfreyb Ssekajja
O’Neill SPEA — “Does Migration Undermine Community-Based Governance: A Comparative Analysis of Community Forestry Institutions in Lake Victoria”
November 6 — Paulo Massoca
O’Neill SPEA, Ostrom Fellow — “National Policies vs. Context-Specific Realities: The Response of Diverse Municipalities to an Anti-Deforestation Policy in the Brazilian Amazon”
November 20 — Jordan Blekking
Geography, Ostrom Research Awardee — “Migration and Urban Food Security in a Secondary City of Zambia”
November 27 — Thanksgiving Break
December 4 — Lu Zhou*
University of Hong Kong — “Land Finance and Land Development Quota in China: A Game Theory Model of the Interaction between Central and Local Governments”
December 11 — Giridharan Ramasubramanian*
Australian National University — “Building Blocks, Facilitators and Catalysts: Dynamic Interactions between Climate Institutions within a Climate Regime Complex”
March 7 — Yun Ju Kang
Ostrom Fellow, Maurer School of Law, IU — “Speculations on Criminal Justice Mechanisms to Address North Korean Regime’s Human Rights Violations: ICC, Ad-Hoc Tribunals, or Something Else?”
March 14 — SPRING BREAK —
March 21 — Jonathan Eldon*
Agricultural ecologist — “On-Farm Trials Identify Diverse Adaptive Management Options for Rainfed Production in Semi-Arid West Africa”
March 28 — Martin Delaroche
Ostrom Research Awardee, SPEA, IU — “Land-Use Patterns in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado: Exploring the Farmers’ Self-Identity Hypothesis”
April 4 — Haiyan Lu*
School of Public Administration, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, China — “How the Government Promotes Coproduction in City Community through NGO: Taking Two Communities in NJ City as the Cases”
April 11 — Lucy Miller
Ostrom Fellow, Anthropology, IU — “Institutional Change in Amazonian Communities: Impacts of Rural-Urban Mobility and Protected Area Land Titling”
April 18 — Johabed Olvera
Ostrom Fellow, SPEA, IU — “Political Hawks vs. Technocrats: The Impact of Governor’s Career Path on Gubernatorial Performance”
September 12 — Research Summaries Roundtable with Visiting Scholars and Graduate Students — Research Summaries Roundtable
September 19 — Qingfang Wang*
School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside — “College Location and STEM Graduate Labor Market Experiences”
October 10 — Cathryn Johnson
Political Science, Ostrom Fellow — “Why Women in Rural Burkina Faso Participate More in Local Politics than Women in Rural Mali”
October 17 — Nabila Rahman
Political Science, Ostrom Research Awardee — “Of Waste and Wealth: Local Government and Citizenship in Urban India”
October 24 — Gunnhild Storbekkrønning Solli*
Public & International Law, University of Oslo — “Does Ownership to Groundwater Still Matter? A Peek into European Models of Groundwater Resources Ownership”
October 31 — Leonid Polishchuk*
Higher School of Economics, Moscow; Institute for Russian & Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University — “Co-Production, Civic Culture, and Quality of Governance: Theory and Evidence from Russia”
November 7 — Juan Francisco Salazar*
School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
“The Cosmopolitics of Outer Space”
November 21 — Thanksgiving Break
December 5 — Julia Valliant
Postdoctoral Research Fellow — “Beginning Farmer Tax Credit Policies of Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota: A Proposal to Assess Existing Programs and Prospects for Uptake by More States”
February 8 — Jordan Blekking
Ostrom Fellow; Department of Geography, IU — “Who Gains From Rural Agricultural Cooperative Membership? Empirical Evidence from Rural Zambia”
February 15 — Murilo Zacareli*
Institute of International Relations, University of São Paulo, Brazil — “Transnational Arenas in Biodiversity Governance”
February 22 — Jesper Larsson*
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden — “Reindeer Husbandry, Sami Economy, and the Evolution of Common-Pool Resources in Early Modern Northern Scandinavia, 1550–1780”
March 15 — SPRING BREAK —
March 22 — Justin Schon
PhD student; Department of Political Science, IU — “Time to Go: Explaining Migration Timing during Conflict”
April 5 — Chris Upton
Ostrom Fellow; Department of Anthropology, IU
“Tensions and Intentions Shaping the Social Imaginary of Taiwan’s Indigenous Rights Framework”
April 12 — Michael Klein
Ostrom Fellow; Department of Economics, IU
“Technological Catch-Up and Productivity Spillovers from FDI: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing”
April 19 — Thuy Nguyen
Searle Postdoctoral Fellow; SPEA, IU
“Anti-Corruption Media Coverage and Corruption Perception”
April 26 — Ivo Baur*
Swiss Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN), Agroscope, Ettenhausen, Switzerland — “Developing and Testing Comparative Statics for Appropriation and Provision Decisions in Common Pool Resource Settings for Improved Policymaking”
September 20 — Daniel DeCaro,
Urban & Public Affairs, Psych & Brain Sciences, University of Louisville — “Legal Design Principlesfor State-Reinforced Self-Governance”
Abstract/Bio
(Archived Live Stream)
September 27 — Research Summaries by Visiting Scholars, Postdocs, & Graduate Students — Research Summaries by Visiting Scholars, Postdocs, & Graduate Students
October 4 — Thuy Nguyen
SPEA, IU — “Does Firm Size Increase Corruption? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Design”
October 18 — Manny Teodoro*
Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University — “Privatization as Political Decoupling: Water Conservation and the 2014–2017 California Drought”
(Archived live stream)
October 25 — Marcela da S. Feital Benedetti*
Department of Sociology, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil — “Climate Change and Human Displacement: A Sociological Contribution to Understand Transitional Societies”
November 1 — Yuan (Daniel) Cheng
Ostrom Research Awardee, SPEA, IU — “Nonprofit Spending and Government Provision of Public Services: Testing Theories of Government-Nonprofit Relationships”
November 8 — Paulo Massoca
Ostrom Research Awardee, SPEA, IU — “Reducing Tropical Deforestation through Local Collective Action in the Brazilian Amazon”
November 15 — Jordan Blekking
Ostrom Research Awardee, Geography, IU — “A Multi-Level Analysis of Household Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa”
November 22 — THANKSGIVING BREAK
December 6 — Julio Alberto Ramos Pastrana
Ostrom Fellow, Economics, IU — “The Effects of Land Demarcation Systems on Agriculture in Nineteenth-Century California”
January 27 — Federica Carugati*
Ostrom Workshop, Political Science Department, and Maurer School of Law, IU — “Constitution and Coordination: Law, Democratic Consolidation, and Economic Development in the Aftermath of War in Classical Athens”
February 3 — Tomas Nonnenmacher*
Department of Economics, Allegheny College — “Institutions and Property Rights”
February 17 — Junaid Alam Memon*
Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad — “Aligning Property Rights Regimes with Newly Emerging Demands from Natural Resources Management: A Case of Indus Delta Mangroves”
February 24 — Kirk Harris
PhD student, Department of Political Science, IU — “Kenya’s Constituency Development Fund and the Politics of Resource Allocation”
March 2 — Cristina Adams*
School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, University of São Paulo, Brazil — “Governing a Layered Territory: Overlapping Property Rights and Mismatching Incentives in Afro-Brazilian Territories”
March 9 — James Scott
Department of Political Science,
Yale University — Roundtable Session:
States, Statelessness, and Self-Organizing Governance Institutions
March 16 — SPRING BREAK —
March 30 — Cathryn Johnson
PhD student, Department of Political Science, IU — “French Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Associational Life: Women’s Participation in Community Life and Local Government in Mali and Burkina Faso”
April 6 — Kurt Waldman
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Ostrom Workshop — “The Impact of Farmers’ Perceptions of Rainfall Uncertainty on Hybrid Maize Seed Choice”
April 13 — Emma McDonell
PhD student, Department of Anthropology, IU — “Creating Local Quinoas for a Global Marketplace: Geographic Indications, Collective Actions, and the Symbolic Commons in Peru and Bolivia’s Quinoa Territorialization Projects”
April 20 — Maiko Nishi*
Urban Planning, Columbia University — “Multi-Level Governance of Agricultural Landscapes in Japan: Perceptions of Farmland and Property Rights Re-Arrangements”
April 27 — Frans de Vries*
Department of Economics, University of Stirling, Scotland
“Transaction Costs, Communication, and Spatial Coordination in Payment for Ecosystem Services Schemes”
May 9 — Nadine Schröder*
Department of Resource Economics, Humboldt University Berlin
“The Lens of Polycentricity: Identifying Polycentric Governance Systems Illustrated through Examples from the Field of Water Governance”
September 28 — Ostrom Workshop Visiting Scholars
and Graduate Students — Research Summaries by Visiting Scholars and Graduate Students
October 5 — David Gerard *
Department of Economics, Lawrence University — “The Economics of Regulation and Antitrust in the Era of Homeland Security”
October 12 — Kimberly Rogers *
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado — “Intersections of Uncertain Sustainability: Infrastructure Management and Institutional Misfit in Delta Socioecological Systems”
October 19 — Naomi Rothenberg *
School of Business, University of Alberta, Canada — “Auditor Reputation Losses, Legal Liability Damages, and Standards”
October 26 — Junaid Alam Memon*
Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad — “Analyzing Indus Delta as a Coupled Social-Ecological System”
November 2 — Misginaw Tamirat Arficho *
Department of Agricultural Economics, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany — “Climate Change Adaptation and Land Use Dynamics in the Pastoral System of Ethiopia: The Role of Policies and Social Organizations”
November 9 — Timothy Model
PhD student, Department of Political Science, IU Bloomington — “How Corrupt Countries Attract Foreign Investment: Anti-Corruption Campaigns and FDI”
November 16 — Mansee Bal Bhargava
Environmental Design Consultants, Ahmedabad, India — “Looking for a Language of Urban Lake Governance and Sustainability”
November 23 — THANKSGIVING BREAK —
November 30 — Martin Delaroche
Ostrom Fellow; PhD student, School of Public & Environmental Affairs, IU Bloomington — “Environmental Management Decision-Making Processes Among Large-Scale Landowners in Mato Grosso, Brazil”
December 7 — Maria Waqar
PhD student, Department of Political Science, IU Bloomington — “The Politics of Reserved Seats and Substantive Representation: The Beliefs and Behavior of ‘Quota Women’ in Pakistan”
September 30 — Workshop Visiting Scholars and Graduate Students — Research Summaries
October 7 — Linda Kuil*
Center for Water Resource Systems, Vienna University of Technology — “Water Security, Food Security, or Both? A Socio-Hydrological Conceptualization of the Ng’iro Basin, Kenya”
October 14 — Paul McCord
PhD student, Department of Geography, IU Bloomington — “A Multilevel Inspection of Water Delivery and Well-Being within Smallholder-Operated Irrigation Systems in the Mount Kenya Region”
October 21 — Bernardo Mueller*
Department of Economics, University of Brasilia — “Beliefs, Institutions, and Development in a Coevolutionary Complex Adaptive System”
October 28 — David Endicott
PhD student, Department of Political Science, IU Bloomington — “Fiscal Federalism and Distributive Politics in India”
November 18 — Luke Shimek
PhD student, Public Policy, IU Bloomington — “A Multi-Method Exploration of Federalism and Party Competition as Causes of Bureaucratic Autonomy (Dissertation Prospectus)”
November 25 — Thanksgiving Break
December 2 — Eoin O’Neill*
School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy, University College Dublin — “Expanding the Horizons of Integrated Flood Risk Management: A Critical Analysis from an Irish Perspective”
December 9 — François-Michel Le Tourneau*
National Center for Scientific Research, Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3
“America’s Outbacks: Governing Vast Open Spaces in an Overpopulated Urban World”
* Denotes Ostrom Workshop Visiting Scholar