Ostrom Workshop Colloquium/Tocqueville Lectures AY: 2016/17
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From David Price January 23rd, 2017
20 plays 0Scholars typically regard the “rule of law”—a stable and predictable process by which laws are implemented, enforced, and changed—as a… -
From David Price January 27th, 2016
28 plays 0Conventional 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… -
From David Price February 2nd, 2016
38 plays 0In his article “Virginia, Rochester, and Bloomington” (Public Choice, 1988), William C. Mitchell wrote: Aside from the family analogy, it seems that three… -
From David Price February 3rd, 2016
10 plays 0“Public utility” and “natural monopoly” have been misused in U.S. telecommunications policy debates. Opponents of network neutrality… -
From David Price February 6th, 2017
29 plays 0Organizational capacity is expected to contribute to a well-functioning government. However, the public management literature offers few objective measures of… -
From David Price February 9th, 2016
13 plays 0We 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… -
From David Price February 10th, 2017
34 plays 0While 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… -
From David Price February 13th, 2017
8 plays 0We 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… -
From wptpcnf1 Ostrom Workshop Conference 1 February 15th, 2016
22 plays 0We analyze how institutions determine the emergence, organization, and strategies of interest groups, as well as their impacts on economic performance. In early… -
From David Price February 20th, 2017
8 plays 0The paper describes and analyzes women’s participation in the recent constitutional amendment process in Liberia and argues that a feminist, dialogic model best… -
From wptpcnf1 Ostrom Workshop Conference 1 February 22nd, 2016
9 plays 0Scholarship on totalitarian regimes moved away from the victimology model. Subjects of national socialist and communist dictatorships seem to have acted in dialogue… -
From David Price February 23rd, 2017
246 plays 0We typically treat the environment as a commons to be managed by regulations from Washington. As Elinor Ostrom taught us, however, “managing the… -
From wptpcnf1 Ostrom Workshop Conference 1 February 26th, 2016
13 plays 0The 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… -
From wptpcnf1 Ostrom Workshop Conference 1 February 29th, 2016
9 plays 0In 2014, the state of California enacted a new law requiring the creation of groundwater sustainability agencies (GSAs) and the development and implementation of… -
From David Price March 6th, 2017
8 plays 0It 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,… -
From wptpcnf1 Ostrom Workshop Conference 1 March 7th, 2016
13 plays 0We use variation in historical state centralization to examine the impact of institutions on cultural norms. The Kuba Kingdom, established in Central Africa in the… -
From David Price March 20th, 2017
20 plays 0This article examines how the justices compete for influence at oral argument by interrupting each other, and how advocates interrupt the justices, contrary to the… -
From wptpcnf1 Ostrom Workshop Conference 1 March 28th, 2016
12 plays 0Abstract: Brazilian smallholders are seeking new types of partnerships and economic opportunities amid a changing world. Market opportunities, however, have… -
From David Price March 27th, 2017
8 plays 0In some developing countries, non-state actors have effectively replaced or overshadow the state as providers of social welfare. In this paper, we explore whether… -
From David Price April 8th, 2016
10 plays 0Over a million square kilometers of the non-sovereign seafloor is under mineral exploration licenses and, by some assessments, an additional four million square… -
From David Price April 3rd, 2017
6 plays 0We examine non-price allocation mechanisms when the incentive and information constraints faced by a democratic government may render the ideal (i.e.,… -
From David Price April 8th, 2016
15 plays 0We argue that the imposition of administrative boundaries on a policy domain has the potential to exacerbate cooperation and coordination dilemmas conditional on the… -
From David Price April 10th, 2017
13 plays 0The 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… -
From David Price April 11th, 2016
29 plays 0Our government is failing us. From health care to immigration to poverty, our political institutions cannot deal effectively with the challenges of modern society. Why… -
From David Price April 18th, 2016
5 plays 0Japan 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.… -
From David Price April 24th, 2017
40 plays 0When 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… -
From David Price September 9th, 2016
9 plays 0Over half a century of the power struggle between local communities and the state on environmental governance issues in Southeast Asia, the conception of data,… -
From David Price September 12th, 2016
3 plays 0The emerging field of behavioral public choice theory examines the decisions and decision-making processes of public officials. This article is among the first to… -
From David Price September 19th, 2016
34 plays 0For centuries, the duty of loyalty has been the hallowed centerpiece of fiduciary obligation, widely considered one of the few “mandatory” rules of… -
From David Price September 23rd, 2016
20 plays 0Veteran Chicago community organizer Robert T. Gannett, Jr. will analyze the intellectual legacy bequeathed by Alexis de Tocqueville, French philosopher, American… -
From David Price September 26th, 2016
5 plays 0The provision of public goods often benefits a larger group than those who can actively provide the public good. This paper addresses institutional arrangements between… -
From David Price October 4th, 2016
11 plays 0Existing research suggests that external interventions may reduce the aggregate levels of repression in authoritarian regimes by pressuring recalcitrant national… -
From David Price October 5th, 2016
5 plays 0The attacks of September 11, 2001 prompted a fundamental reorganization of the US federal administrative state, with homeland security now accounting for over 40… -
From David Price October 17th, 2016
5 plays 0We examine the efficiency of centralized versus decentralized management of spatially connected renewable resources when users have heterogeneous preferences for… -
From David Price October 24th, 2016
21 plays 0One 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… -
From David Price October 24th, 2016
5 plays 0PANELISTS: LEE H. HAMILTON, Former Congressman, School of Global and International Studies, School of Public and Environmental Affairs GEOFFREY KABASERVICE, author of… -
From David Price October 24th, 2016
6 plays 0This paper explores the efforts of South African employers and the apartheid state to remake industrial relations during the 1970s in order to preserve racial… -
From David Price October 31st, 2016
8 plays 0This 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… -
From David Price November 14th, 2016
9 plays 0Using 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… -
From David Price November 14th, 2016
9 plays 0Existing research suggests that communities can successfully govern common-pool resources, ensuring long-term viability of the resource. However, little research has… -
From David Price December 5th, 2016
9 plays 0California 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…
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