Ostrom Workshop Colloquium/Tocqueville Lectures 2017/18
Ostrom Workshop Colloquium/Tocqueville Lectures 2017/18
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From David Price
13 plays 0Current cybersecurity risk modeling methodologies do not consider humans as risk initiators or mitigators. Human factors are considered primarily in terms of how users… -
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15 plays 0Drawing on ethnographic perspectives, this paper will explore the neoliberal imbrications defining cultural politics in Russia’s indigenous resource frontiers.… -
From David Price
17 plays 1While justice and rule-of-law strategies are being increasingly studied in regard to government behavior, new data on the use of transitional justice during armed… -
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57 plays 1Behavior in the realm of family and sexuality has changed rapidly over the past 70 years, with dramatic shifts in sexual relationships, courtship, marriage, divorce,… -
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19 plays 1This paper focuses on assessing productivity in basic research programs, and on how the ability to make these assessments insulates these programs from political… -
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65 plays 1In his new book, William Scheuerman systematically analyzes the most important interpretations of civil disobedience. Drawing out the striking differences separating… -
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13 plays 0Performance of investment products managed by firms in which PhDs play a key role is superior to the performance of products managed by otherwise similar firms. This… -
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10 plays 0Over two centuries, Colombia transferred vast quantities of land, equivalent to the entire UK landmass, mainly to landless peasants. And yet Colombia retains one of the… -
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11 plays 0When Auguste de Staël edited Jacques Necker’s complete works in fifteen volumes in 1821, the public was surprised to discover how prolific the former… -
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9 plays 0Much has been written in the social sciences about why and how institutions come about and gradually change. Less attention, however, has been paid to the questions of… -
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10 plays 0Rangelands cover more of the earth’s land surface than any other type of land. In Africa, it is estimated that rangelands cover about 40% of the land mass, and… -
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14 plays 0This paper draws on new state-level panel datasets spanning 1936–2015 covering the three most valuable natural resources during the period—oil & gas,… -
04/16/18 Colloquium Series - Robert Gibbons:… 13 of 34
04/16/18 Colloquium Series - Robert Gibbons:…
From David Price
19 plays 0The growing economics literature on “Culture and Institutions” explores how these concepts influence each other. For example, Guiso et al. (2013) found that… -
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16 plays 0Elinor Ostrom’s work challenging prevailing metaphors about how to solve “tragedies of the commons” had two profound impacts. First, it demonstrated… -
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17 plays 0We assemble original data from 112 countries around the world on the reelection rates of national legislators in recent elections. The data show that incumbent… -
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22 plays 0Do newly elected politicians correspond to the public interest after achieving political office? We show that politicians change their behavior once changing from one… -
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14 plays 0Advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems are already being used to enhance our lives and to transform the way businesses operate. Businesses across a broad… -
09/20/17 Research Series - Daniel A. DeCaro:… 18 of 34
09/20/17 Research Series - Daniel A. DeCaro:…
From David Price
23 plays 0Self-governance is a fundamental aspect of democracy, and an essential foundation of societal cooperation and problem-solving in the United States. Vincent and Elinor… -
09/22/17 Tocqueville_Lecture - Damon Linker:… 19 of 34
09/22/17 Tocqueville_Lecture - Damon Linker:…
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15 plays 0Political pundit and academic book editor Damon Linker will discuss what it’s like to analyze and comment on current affairs at a time of intense political… -
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20 plays 0Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient institutions in response to changing economic conditions? And why are such failures often associated with a rise in… -
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17 plays 0Rebel groups in armed conflicts around the globe are often violators of international law. Yet, out of approximately 350 rebel groups in contemporary armed conflicts,… -
10/05/17 Tocqueville Lecture - Peter Levine:… 22 of 34
10/05/17 Tocqueville Lecture - Peter Levine:…
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91 plays 0Instead of asking “What is going on and why?” or “What should be done?” (the most typical questions in the social sciences), a citizen must ask… -
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9 plays 0During the early 20th century, the United States struggled with intense labor conflict, unstable institutions, geographic fragmentation, and economic uncertainty and… -
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15 plays 0One of the central difficulties in managing global commons problems is that the relevant actors often do not know which actions to take nor the cost and impact of… -
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6 plays 0Over the past three decades, decoupling has emerged as a regulatory strategy for promoting conservation, especially in the energy sector. Decoupling refers to the… -
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3 plays 0Many leading environmental and security concerns now facing the international community may be traced to the frontiers, that is, the areas historically outside of… -
10/30/17 Colloquium Series - Xavier Basurto:… 27 of 34
10/30/17 Colloquium Series - Xavier Basurto:…
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12 plays 0In this paper, we expand existing conceptual tools from institutional analysis and common-pool resource theory to guide research on self-governing regimes. We use… -
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4 plays 0Popular narratives attribute poverty on Native American reservations today to historical resource expropriation and the resulting dearth of high-quality land, but the… -
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14 plays 0We have heard quite a bit in recent years about populism and especially, populism on the right. On the overall question of who should make policy, William F. Buckley… -
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14 plays 0Emerging natural system research has documented connections between water, energy, and food with an eye toward prescribing how to achieve greater efficiencies and to… -
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11 plays 0Private land conservation (PLC) mechanisms, such as conservation easements (CEs), create increasingly complex and potentially resilient regimes for securing and… -
12/1/17 Tocqueville Lecture - Jason Brennan:… 32 of 34
12/1/17 Tocqueville Lecture - Jason Brennan:…
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0 plays 0Democracy is the rule of the people. But what if the people have little clue what they’re doing? Democracy incentivizes voters to be biased, uninformed,… -
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10 plays 0Groundwater is one of the most challenging common-pool resources to govern, resulting in resource depletion in many areas. We present an innovative use of… -
12/7/17 Tocqueville Lecture - Jason Brennan:… 34 of 34
12/7/17 Tocqueville Lecture - Jason Brennan:…
From David Price
0 plays 0Democracy is the rule of the people. But what if the people have little clue what they’re doing? Democracy incentivizes voters to be biased, uninformed,…