Past Research Series
January 24, 2024 Lightning Round for all Fellows / Research Awardees
January 31, 2024 Nathalie Mendez, "Gender attitudes among public employees: A comparative analysis"
February 7, 2024 Thuy Ho, "Contract farming and the Reallocation of Environmental Risks in the Mekong Delta Rice"
February 14, 2024 Ilya Utekhin, "Measuring the agenda in the Russian news media: censorship and propaganda detected"
February 21, 2024 Nicholas Clifford, "The General Misfortune of Mankind: The Anti-federalists, Polycentricity, and the Perpetuation of Political Institutions"
February 28, 2024 Beatriz Lima Ribiero, "How politics travel: the challenges of indigenous participation in global environmental governance"
March 6, 2024 Luis Enrique Navarro Ulloa, "Preferences for local public goods and the gig economy"
March 20, 2024 LiJia Jiang, "Tax dispute resolution between China and ASEAN in the digital economy: an analysis based on IAD framework"
March 27, 2024 Dalya Manatova, "Organizational and Social Dynamics of a Cybercriminal Group: a Case of Russian Ransomeware Gang"
April 10, 2024 Burnell Fischer, "Exploring the Knowledge Commons of Lakes"
April 17, 2024 Elke Kellner, "How to find the balance? Governing trade-off situations in mining of transition minerals for energy transition"
November 15, 2023 Mikhail Turchenko, "
November 8, 2023 Justin Sacks, "#commonize studio: Designing commons through studio experimentalism"
November 1, 2023 Subimal Bhattacharjee
October 25, 2023 Yanhua Shi, "A dynamic network analysis of social-ecological action situations in river governance of the Danube east of Vienna"
October 11, 2023 Space Law and Space Cybersecurity Round Table
September 27, 2023 Jessy Kate Schingler, "New ways of thinking about sovereignty in a commons-oriented, networked world"
September 20, 2023 Hanna Schreiber, “Exploring the concept of meta-commons. The case of UNESCO Heritage Lists”
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