Ostrom Workshop Colloquium/Tocqueville Lectures AY: 2016/17
Ostrom Workshop Colloquium/Tocqueville Lectures AY: 2016/17
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Scholars typically regard the “rule of law”—a stable and predictable process by which laws are implemented, enforced, and changed—as a…
01/23/2017 Colloquium Series - F. Andrew Hanssen:…
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Conventional wisdom holds that democracy endures in rich countries but is unstable in poor ones. Building on Ansell and Samuels (2014), we suggest that the sources of…
01/25/2016 Colloquium - David Samuels:…
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In his article “Virginia, Rochester, and Bloomington” (Public Choice, 1988), William C. Mitchell wrote: Aside from the family analogy, it seems that three…
01/29/2016 - Tocqueville Lecture Series, Paul…
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“Public utility” and “natural monopoly” have been misused in U.S. telecommunications policy debates. Opponents of network neutrality…
02/01/2016 - Colloquium Presentation, Barbara…
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Organizational capacity is expected to contribute to a well-functioning government. However, the public management literature offers few objective measures of…
02/06/2017 Colloquium Series - Claudia…
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We analyze the economic determinants and long-run e↵ects of prior appropriation surface water rights from 1852 to 2013 and show how formal property rights…
02/08/2016 - Gary Libecap: Economic Analysis of…
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While in recent decades the scholarly interest in the history and in the further development of the Austrian School of Economics has steadily increased, the German…
02/10/2017 Tocquevlle Lecture - Stefan Kolev:…
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We estimate the impact of the Clean Power Plan (CPP) on SO2 and NOx emissions. We focus on these co-pollutants because while the amount of CO2 emitted from electricity…
02/13/2017 Colloquium Series - Nikos Zirogiannis:…
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We analyze how institutions determine the emergence, organization, and strategies of interest groups, as well as their impacts on economic performance. In early…
02/15/2016 - Alston, Mueller, Nonnenmacher:…
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The paper describes and analyzes women’s participation in the recent constitutional amendment process in Liberia and argues that a feminist, dialogic model best…
02/20/2017 Colloquium Series - Susan Williams:…
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Scholarship on totalitarian regimes moved away from the victimology model. Subjects of national socialist and communist dictatorships seem to have acted in dialogue…
02/22/2016 - Laszlo Borhi: “More than…
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We typically treat the environment as a commons to be managed by regulations from Washington. As Elinor Ostrom taught us, however, “managing the…
02/22/2017 Ostrom Lecture on Environmental Policy…
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The work of Lin and Vincent Ostrom established the Bloomington School as a force at the core of modern institutional analysis and public choice by focusing attention on…
02/26/2016 Tocqueville Lecture. Roberta Herzberg,…
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02/29/2016: William Blomquist - Implementing… 14 of 41
02/29/2016: William Blomquist - Implementing…
In 2014, the state of California enacted a new law requiring the creation of groundwater sustainability agencies (GSAs) and the development and implementation of…02/29/2016: William Blomquist - Implementing…
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It is widely believed that water is badly misallocated in California because it is mispriced, resulting in too much agricultural use. At the same time, however,…
03/06/2017 Colloquium Series - John Ferejohn:…
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We use variation in historical state centralization to examine the impact of institutions on cultural norms. The Kuba Kingdom, established in Central Africa in the…
03/07/2016 - James Robinson: “The Evolution…
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03/20/2016 Colloquium Series - Tonja Jacobi:… 17 of 41
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This article examines how the justices compete for influence at oral argument by interrupting each other, and how advocates interrupt the justices, contrary to the…03/20/2016 Colloquium Series - Tonja Jacobi:…
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Abstract: Brazilian smallholders are seeking new types of partnerships and economic opportunities amid a changing world. Market opportunities, however, have…
03/21/16 Colloquium Series: Eduardo Brondizio -…
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In some developing countries, non-state actors have effectively replaced or overshadow the state as providers of social welfare. In this paper, we explore whether…
03/27/2017 Colloquium Series - Melani Cammett:…
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Over a million square kilometers of the non-sovereign seafloor is under mineral exploration licenses and, by some assessments, an additional four million square…
03/28/2016 Colloquium - Christiana Ochoa:…
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04/03/2017 Colloquium Series - Robert Fleck:… 21 of 41
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We examine non-price allocation mechanisms when the incentive and information constraints faced by a democratic government may render the ideal (i.e.,…04/03/2017 Colloquium Series - Robert Fleck:…
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We argue that the imposition of administrative boundaries on a policy domain has the potential to exacerbate cooperation and coordination dilemmas conditional on the…
04/04/2016 Colloquium - David Konisky:…
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The present paper begins with the well-traveled notion of institutions as “the rules of the game” and seeks to give some conceptual concreteness to the idea…
04/10/2017 Colloquium Series - Kenneth Shepsle:…
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Our government is failing us. From health care to immigration to poverty, our political institutions cannot deal effectively with the challenges of modern society. Why…
04/11/2016 - Terry M. Moe: “Relic: How Our…
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Japan has long been the most important ally of the United States in East Asia and it is widely viewed in Washington as a pillar of stability in the Asia-Pacific region.…
04/18/2016 - Hiroki Takeuchi: “The New…
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When does culture persist and when does it change? We examine a determinant of extent of cultural persistence that has been put forth in the evolutionary anthropology…
04/24/2017 Colloquium Series - Nathan Nunn:…
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Over half a century of the power struggle between local communities and the state on environmental governance issues in Southeast Asia, the conception of data,…
09/09/16 - Tocqueville Lecture Series: Tun Myint:…
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The emerging field of behavioral public choice theory examines the decisions and decision-making processes of public officials. This article is among the first to…
09/12/16 Colloquium Series - David Delaney:…
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For centuries, the duty of loyalty has been the hallowed centerpiece of fiduciary obligation, widely considered one of the few “mandatory” rules of…
09/19/16 Colloquium Series - Eric Talley:…
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09/23/16 Tocqueville Lecture Series - Robert… 30 of 41
09/23/16 Tocqueville Lecture Series - Robert…
Veteran Chicago community organizer Robert T. Gannett, Jr. will analyze the intellectual legacy bequeathed by Alexis de Tocqueville, French philosopher, American…09/23/16 Tocqueville Lecture Series - Robert…
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The provision of public goods often benefits a larger group than those who can actively provide the public good. This paper addresses institutional arrangements between…
09/26/16 Colloquium Series - Jimmy Walker:…
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Existing research suggests that external interventions may reduce the aggregate levels of repression in authoritarian regimes by pressuring recalcitrant national…
10/03/16 Colloquium Series - Yan Long:…
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The attacks of September 11, 2001 prompted a fundamental reorganization of the US federal administrative state, with homeland security now accounting for over 40…
10/05/16 Research Series - David Gerard:…
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We examine the efficiency of centralized versus decentralized management of spatially connected renewable resources when users have heterogeneous preferences for…
10/17/2016 Colloquium Series - Christopher…
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One of the leading historians of the Republican Party discusses its forgotten moderate past and the conservative movement’s rise to power. The author will argue…
10/21/16 Tocqueville Lecture - Geoffrey…
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PANELISTS: LEE H. HAMILTON, Former Congressman, School of Global and International Studies, School of Public and Environmental Affairs GEOFFREY KABASERVICE, author of…
10/21/16 Tocqueville Lecture Special Roundtable -…
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This paper explores the efforts of South African employers and the apartheid state to remake industrial relations during the 1970s in order to preserve racial…
10/24/16 Colloquium Series - Alex Lichtenstein:…
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This working paper will appear as a chapter in the fourth edition of the Cultural Context of Aging, Jay Sokolovsky, ed. Stafford provides an overview of the growing…
10/31/16 Colloquium Series - Phil Stafford:…
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Using a global poverty map and standard soil productivity measures, we find that the poorest districts in Africa are more likely to have better (not worse) soil quality…
11/14/2016 Colloquium Series - Leonard…
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Existing research suggests that communities can successfully govern common-pool resources, ensuring long-term viability of the resource. However, little research has…
11/7/2016 Colloquium Series - Jessica Steinberg:…
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California has embarked on a bold experiment in trying to reduce carbon emissions without causing undue harm to the state’s economy. The goal is made more…12/5/16 Colloquium Series - Charles Kolstad:…
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