Ostrom Workshop Colloquium/Tocqueville Lectures 2017/18
Ostrom Workshop Colloquium/Tocqueville Lectures 2017/18
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Current cybersecurity risk modeling methodologies do not consider humans as risk initiators or mitigators. Human factors are considered primarily in terms of how users…
01/22/18 Colloquium Series - Diane_Henshel:…
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Drawing on ethnographic perspectives, this paper will explore the neoliberal imbrications defining cultural politics in Russia’s indigenous resource frontiers.…
01/29/18 Colloquium Series - Gertjan Plets:…
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While 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…
02/05/18 Colloquium Series - Cyanne E. Loyle:…
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Behavior in the realm of family and sexuality has changed rapidly over the past 70 years, with dramatic shifts in sexual relationships, courtship, marriage, divorce,…
02/06/18 Tocqueville Lecture Series - Amy L. Wax:…
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This paper focuses on assessing productivity in basic research programs, and on how the ability to make these assessments insulates these programs from political…
02/12/2018 Colloquium Series - William Bianco:…
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In his new book, William Scheuerman systematically analyzes the most important interpretations of civil disobedience. Drawing out the striking differences separating…
02/16/2018 Tocqueville Lecture Series - William…
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Performance 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…
02/19/2016 Colloquium Series - Charles Trzcinka:…
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Over 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…
02/26/2018 Colloquium Series - Jean-Paul Faguet:…
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When Auguste de Staël edited Jacques Necker’s complete works in fifteen volumes in 1821, the public was surprised to discover how prolific the former…
03/20/18 Colloquium - Aurelian Craiutu: “A…
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Much 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…
03/26/18 Colloquium Series - Tulia Falleti:…
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Rangelands 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…
04/02/2018 Colloquium Series -J. Terrence McCabe:…
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This paper draws on new state-level panel datasets spanning 1936–2015 covering the three most valuable natural resources during the period—oil & gas,…
04/09/18 Colloquium Series - Karen Clay:…
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The growing economics literature on “Culture and Institutions” explores how these concepts influence each other. For example, Guiso et al. (2013) found that…
04/16/18 Colloquium Series - Robert Gibbons:…
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Elinor Ostrom’s work challenging prevailing metaphors about how to solve “tragedies of the commons” had two profound impacts. First, it demonstrated…
04/23/18 Colloquium - Benjamin Cashore:…
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We assemble original data from 112 countries around the world on the reelection rates of national legislators in recent elections. The data show that incumbent…
04/30/18 Colloquium - Miriam Golden:…
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Do newly elected politicians correspond to the public interest after achieving political office? We show that politicians change their behavior once changing from one…
09/11/2017 Colloquium Series: David Stadelmann…
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Advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems are already being used to enhance our lives and to transform the way businesses operate. Businesses across a broad…
09/18/17 - Angie Raymond: “Information and…
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Self-governance is a fundamental aspect of democracy, and an essential foundation of societal cooperation and problem-solving in the United States. Vincent and Elinor…
09/20/17 Research Series - Daniel A. DeCaro:…
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Political 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…
09/22/17 Tocqueville_Lecture - Damon Linker:…
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Why 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…
09/25/17 - Murat Iyigun: “The Ideological…
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Rebel groups in armed conflicts around the globe are often violators of international law. Yet, out of approximately 350 rebel groups in contemporary armed conflicts,…
10/02/2017 Colloquium Series - Hyeran…
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Instead 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…
10/05/17 Tocqueville Lecture - Peter Levine:…
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During the early 20th century, the United States struggled with intense labor conflict, unstable institutions, geographic fragmentation, and economic uncertainty and…
10/09/17 Colloquium Series - Margaret Levi:…
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One 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…
10/16/17 Colloquium - David Victor: “An…
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Over the past three decades, decoupling has emerged as a regulatory strategy for promoting conservation, especially in the energy sector. Decoupling refers to the…
10/18/17 Research Series - Manny Teodoro:…
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Many leading environmental and security concerns now facing the international community may be traced to the frontiers, that is, the areas historically outside of…
10/23/17 Colloquium Series - Scott Shackelford:…
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In this paper, we expand existing conceptual tools from institutional analysis and common-pool resource theory to guide research on self-governing regimes. We use…
10/30/17 Colloquium Series - Xavier Basurto:…
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Popular narratives attribute poverty on Native American reservations today to historical resource expropriation and the resulting dearth of high-quality land, but the…
11/06/2017 Colloquium Series - Dominic Parker:…
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We 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…
11/10/17 Tocqueville Series - Alvin Felzenberg:…
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Emerging natural system research has documented connections between water, energy, and food with an eye toward prescribing how to achieve greater efficiencies and to…
11/13/17 Colloquium - Kent Portney:…
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Private land conservation (PLC) mechanisms, such as conservation easements (CEs), create increasingly complex and potentially resilient regimes for securing and…
11/27/17 Colloquium Series - James Farmer:…
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Groundwater is one of the most challenging common-pool resources to govern, resulting in resource depletion in many areas. We present an innovative use of…
12/4/17 Colloquium Series - Marco Janssen:…
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