Call for PanelsPanel submissions are now being accepted for the sixth Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop (WOW) conference, June 19–22, 2019. The conference venue will be the Indiana Memorial Union on the IU Bloomington campus.

The theme of WOW6 is “Governance: Past, Present, and Future.” We are inviting panels that will explore, advance, and reflect upon the study of governance. We aim to assemble a conference program that will incorporate diverse theoretical, methodological, and empirical inquiries. The complete call for panels, as well as the online submission form, can be found on the conference website: https://wow.indiana.edu/. The panel submissions deadline is September 1, 2018. (Note: Call for Papers coming in Sept./Oct.)

Research Program Launches & Activities This fall, a lecture and conference, respectively, will kick start the launch of our two new research programs: Political, Economic, and Legal Institutions and Organizations (PELIO) and Data Management and Information Governance.

Making Democracy Harder to Hack

As part of the Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Gov-ernance, a collaborative research workshop between Aus-tralian National University and Indiana University—“Making Democracy Harder to Hack”—will take place in Washington, DC, on September 6–7 (see the program’s webpage for more information).

Inaugural PELIO LectureOn September 18, a public lecture will be given by Robert Bates, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Bates’s lecture will take place at the IMU’s University Club at 5 pm (see the program’s webpage for more information).

“Smart Cities” ConferenceOn October 3–5, the Program on Data Management and Information Governance, cohosted with the Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance, will hold a launch conference at the Ostrom Workshop on “Smart Cities: Security, Privacy, and Governance Best Practices.”

The conference will coincide with the 5th annual Ostrom Memorial Lecture on October 3, which will be presented by Professor Milton Mueller, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Natural Resource Governance SymposiumWith funding from the Searle Freedom Trust, the Program on Natural Resource Governance (director Dean Lueck) will hold a “Symposium on Natural Resource Governance for Young Scholars” on November 14–16. Attendance is by invitation only.

Blockchain Governance Initiative (BGI) The Ostrom Workshop is taking on the challenge of blockchain governance with a new collaborative initiative—the Blockchain Governance Initiative (BGI)—that will be a partnership between our Cybersecurity and Data Governance programs.

Even though Bitcoin gets most of the press, the underlying tech, blockchain, is the bigger story; simply put, according to Goldman Sachs, it could “change ‘everything.’” Indeed, the tech is sometimes billed as a panacea—from making businesses more efficient to engendering the growth of “smart” contracts and even securing medical devices, blockchain is now being investigated by a huge range of organizations and is attracting billions in venture funding. Interest is widespread, with organizations ranging from DARPA to Disney investing in blockchain. Wal-Mart is similarly deploying it to help manage its massive supply chain. Countries are even getting into the game, from launching their own cryptocurrencies like Venezuela’s Petro, to Honduras and Greece using blockchain to aid in land registries, to its use in secure voting. But, as with every new innovation, there are both opportunities and drawbacks to consider. To join the working group, and learn more about blockchain research going on around Indiana University, please sign up for the dedicated blockchain list-serve here: https://ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/mailing-list/.

CONTENTS | vol. 23, no. 2

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Events .....................................................3

In the News ............................................4

People ......................................................5

Publications ............................................7

OSTROM WORKSHOP n INDIANA UNIVERSITY n AUGUST 2018

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Indiana University | June 19–22, 2019

OSTROM WORKSHOP

INDIANA UNIVERSITY

513 N. PARK AVENUE

BLOOMINGTON, IN 47408

Mission: To build upon the theme of governance to understand and address major societal problems

The Ostrom Workshop is a research center of the Office of the Vice Provost for Research at IU Bloomington

S TAY C O N N E C T E D

Polycentric Circles is a biannual (January & August) publication of the Ostrom Workshop. Join the mailing list at: https://ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/mailing-list/. Submissions are always welcome and may be sent to the editor.

Lee Alston Director

Scott Shackelford Director, Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance

Angie Raymond

Dean Lueck

Cyanne E. Loyle

Director, Program on Data Management and Information Governance

Director, Program on Natural Resource Governance

Interim Director, Program on Political, Economic, and Legal Institutions and Organizations (PELIO)

Vincent & Elinor Ostrom Founding Directors

Patty Lezotte Editor and Designer

Twitter @Ostrom_Workshop

Facebook @ostromworkshop

Instagram ostrom_workshop

e-mail workshop@indiana.edu

website ostromworkshop.indiana.edu

phone 812/855–0441In the face of environmental change and persistent public

health issues, how do we develop more resilient sustainable

food systems? This question, and more, is at the heart of the

two research initiatives selected to receive 2018 Emerging

Areas of Research awards from Indiana University Blooming-

ton. The goal of the sustainable food systems Emerging Areas

of Research initiative is to analyze food systems from varying

perspectives and in both local and international contexts to

identify what it takes to create environmentally sustainable,

socially just, and resilient systems for food, from production

to procurement. The “Sustainable Food Systems Science”

initiative is led by a collective of scholars from across several

campus units. The research team will receive up to $2.8 mil-

lion for the four-year initiative.

To learn more, visit https://sfss.indiana.edu/

IU Awards Research Grant for Food Systems Sustainability—James Farmer

Workshop Affiliated Faculty, School of Public Health

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Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance

• Cybersecurity and Information Governance Read-ing Group: Cookies and Hard Problems—“MakingDemocracy Harder to Hack,” Scott Shackelford, Mar. 7

• “Blockchain Blockparty”—roundtable discus-sion of blockchain and cybersecurity with Scott Bassett, Esfan Haghverdi, Bipin Prabhakar, andScott Shackelford, Apr. 5

Program on Data Management and Information Governance

• Luncheon Networking Series—“Digital Asset Management,” Anne M. Young, IndianapolisMuseum of Art at Newfields, Feb. 28

• Cybersecurity and Information Governance Read-ing Group: Cookies and Hard Problems—“Data, Justice, and AI: There May Not be a HumanDeciding Your Case,” Angie Raymond, Apr. 3 *

Program on Natural Resource Governance

• Ostrom Lecture on Environmental Policy—“CivilWars: The Challenges of Interstate Waterways,” second annual lecture by Barton (Buzz) Thomp-son, Stanford Law School, Mar. 28 *

• Natural Resource Governance Seminar Series—“Governing Transboundary Rivers: The Intersec-tion between Science, Policy, and InstitutionalDesign,” Andrea Gerlak, School of Geography &Development, University of Arizona, Apr. 27

Program on Political, Economic, and Legal Institutions and Organizations (PELIO)

• PELIO Working Group: Ungoverned Spaces—Cyanne E. Loyle, Mar. 20 & Apr. 17 *

Research Group on Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP) Conference—Organized by Lee Alston and Federica Carugati, Apr. 28 *

Colloquium, Research, and Tocqueville Lecture Series *

Twenty-four presentations took place during the spring semester as part of the Workshop’s regular lecture series. Check out the 2018–19 lineup via our Events web page and/or join the mailing list at:

https://ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/mailing-list/

UPCOMING EVENTS

SEPTEMBER 6–7 • Washington, DC

Making Democracy Harder to Hack

Collaborative Research Workshop, Australian National University–Indiana University. Part of the Workshop’s Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance.

SEPTEMBER 18 • 5:00–6:30 pm, University Club, Indiana Memorial Union

Inaugural PELIO Lecture

Robert Bates, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University, will present the inaugural lecture for the PELIO program launch.

SEPTEMBER 20 • 3:00–6:00 pm, Ostrom Workshop, 513 N. Park

“Paywall” Movie Screening

Part of the Workshop’s Program on Data Management and Informa-tion Governance. About “pay to view” and other academic publishing paywalls that prevent the widespread sharing of important research.

OCTOBER 3 • 6:00–7:00 pm, Maurer School of Law, Moot Court Room 123

Ostrom Memorial Lecture

Milton Mueller, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, will present the fifth annual Ostrom Memorial Lecture.

OCTOBER 3–5 • Ostrom Workshop, 513 N. Park

Smart Cities: Security, Privacy, and Governance Best Practices

Launch conference of the Workshop’s Program on Data Management and Information Governance, cohosted with the Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance.

NOVEMBER 14–16 • Ostrom Workshop, 513 N. Park

Symposium on Natural Resource Governance for Young Scholars

Part of the Workshop’s Program on Natural Resource Governance.

2019APRIL 4 • IU Bloomington

Ostrom Lecture on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance

Michael Sulmeyer, Cyber Security Project Director, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.

JUNE 19–22 • Indiana Memorial Union, IU Bloomington

Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop (WOW6) conference, “Governance: Past, Present, and Future”

Panel submission deadline: September 1, 2018

Note: Call for Papers coming in September/October

Website: https://wow.indiana.edu/ | Email: wow@iu.edu

* Archived live streams available on our website at Events/Conferences & Lectures

PAST EVENTS

2018More information about upcoming events will be provided on our website as it becomes available

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The Carnegie Corporation has named Shahzeen Attari (WAF, SPEA) a 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Her research focuses on environmental decision making at the individual level, and she studies the biases that shape people’s judgments and decisions about resource use and climate change.

The African Studies Program held a series of events at IU in March 2018 centered around land rights, land tenure, and land ownership in the twenty-first century. As part of a roundtable event on “People and Places: Conversations about the Meaning of Land,” Eduardo Brondizio (WAF, Anthropology) presented on land rights issues in Latin America.

Jennifer Brass (WAF, SPEA) was named director of the SPEA Undergraduate Honors Program in spring 2018.

Analena Bruce (Workshop Postdoctoral Research Fellow) and team received a Specialty Crop Block Grant from the Indiana State Department of Agriculture for the 2019 fiscal year for their project entitled “Increasing the Productivity, Profitability, and Sustainability of High Tunnel Production Systems for Indiana Specialty Crops.”

Federica Carugati (former Workshop Associate Director) has taken a position as Program Director at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University, effective June 21, 2018.

Daniel (Yuan) Cheng (2017–18 Ostrom Research Awardee) has joined the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, as an assistant professor in the leadership and management area.

Ivan Grdesic (Workshop Visiting Scholar, 1985 & 1992) served as Croatia’s ambassador to the United States from 2000 to 2004, and then returned to the Department of Political Science at the University of Zagreb. From 2012 to 2017, he again served as ambassador, though this time in London. He is now retired back home in Zagreb.

The Hayek Program, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, hosted a panel discussion in late January on “Elinor Ostrom: An Intellectual Biography” featuring Vlad Tarko (author and assistant professor of economics at Dickinson College), Bobbi Herzberg (Hayek Program Distinguished Senior Fellow), and Michael McGinnis (WAF, Political Science; Associate Dean for Social and Historical Sciences and Graduate Education, IU Bloomington). Listen to the conversation on a new episode of the Hayek Program Podcast.

IN THE NEWS

As part of World Commons week, the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) is sponsoring a multidisciplinary dialogue and conference on the evolution of the concept of the “commons” (in light of Hardin and Lin Ostrom) at Georgetown University, October 5–6. In addition, IASC will be holding its first Virtual Conference on November 12–30. Presentations about all elements of commons research, from natural resource governance to knowledge and urban commons, are welcome.

Yun Ju (Kelly) Kang (2017–18 Ostrom Fellow) has been hired as a legal officer with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) effective July 2018.

WAFs Prakash Kaswan and Lauren MacLean are recipients of APSA’s 2018 Special Projects Fund, for “Avoiding ‘Day Zero’ in the U.S. & Global South: Climate Justice in Teaching & Policy Action.”

Kwanbo Kim (WAF, Public Administration, Catholic University of Korea) retired at the end of February 2018, but will continue to teach as emeritus professor in the same department. At a regular winter conference of the Korean Association of Local Government Studies, Professor Kim led one session in commemoration of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom.

Emma McDonell (PhD candidate, Anthropology and IU Food Institute; Workshop Ostrom Fellow) received a 2018–19 Native American & Indigenous Studies Fellowship. Emma also received the 2018 Graduate Student Paper Award from the Association for the Study of Food and Society.

Julio Alberto Ramos Pastrana (PhD candidate in Economics; Ostrom Research Awardee) was awarded a Mercatus Center Adam Smith Fellowship for the 2018–19 academic year.

Angie Raymond (Program Director, Data Management and Information Governance) contributed to the discussion surrounding the use of data to bridge policy and science at the Nexus Observatory in Chapel Hill, Apr. 30, 2018.

Amos Sawyer, former president of the Interim Government of National Unity in Liberia and codirector of the Ostrom Workshop, was awarded Indiana University’s honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree on May 5, 2018. The presentation took place at IU’s undergraduate commencement ceremony.

Amos Sawyer (middle) with sons Frantz & Mendea

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PEOPLE

Visiting Scholars Nominations are accepted twice a year (October 1 & March 1) from all WAF and Program Affiliates to invite non-IU colleagues as Workshop Visiting Scholars

Benito Arruñada

Business Organization, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

Oct. 27–Nov. 25, 2018

Leonid Polishchuk

Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia; Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden

Sept. 24–Oct. 3 & Oct. 28–Nov. 17, 2018

Juan Francisco Salazar

Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University

Nov. 6–13, 2018

Gunnhild Storbekkrønning Solli

Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo, Norway

Oct. 21–27, 2018

Qingfang Wang

School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside

Aug. 20–Sept. 21, 2018

Jonathan Yoder

School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University

Oct. 23–29, 2018

Marcela Slusarciuc

Department of Human and Social Political Sciences, University ‘Stefan cel Mare’ Suceava, Romania

Aug. 15, 2018–Feb. 15, 2019

Lu Zhou

Ronald Coase Center for Property Rights Research, University of Hong Kong

Aug. 18, 2018–Feb. 17, 2019

Suzie Mulesky

Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California

Aug. 2018–May 2020

Analena Bruce Julia Valliant

Postdoctoral Research Fellows

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Kristina Anderson

School of Public Health

Ricardo Bello-Gomez

SPEA

Cathryn Johnson

Political Science

Tetiana Bulakh

Anthropology

Anthony DeMattee

SPEA/Political Science

Ostrom Fellows Each year, the Workshop funds a maximum of six MA and PhD candidates from the College of Arts & Sciences, School of Public Health, SPEA, and other departmental units

PEOPLE (continued)

Research Awardees Each year, the Workshop provides Research Awards to IU WAF, Program Affiliates & Graduate Students

Claudia Avellaneda

SPEA

William Winecoff

Political Science

Faculty

Zhi Wang

School of Public Health

Connor Stangler

History

Samantha von Ende

Maurer School of Law

Renzo de la Riva Agüero

SPEA/Political Science

Julio Alberto Ramos Pastrana

Economics

Johabed Olvera

SPEA

Nabila Rahman

Political Science

Anthony DeMattee

SPEA/Political Science

Graduate Students

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PUBLICATIONS

Institutional and Organizational Analysis: Concepts and Applications

(Cambridge University Press, 2018)

Eric Alston, Lee J. Alston, Bernardo Mueller & Tomas Nonnenmacher

Governing Climate Change: Polycentricity in Action?

(Cambridge University Press, 2018)

Andrew Jordan, Dave Huitema, Harro van Asselt & Johanna Forster

Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy: Volume 4, Policy Applications and Extensions

(Lexington Books, 2018)

Daniel Cole & Michael McGinnis, eds.

Authornam

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as Paine and the Idea of Hum

an Rights

Governing Climate ChangePolycentricity in Action?

Edited by Andrew Jordan, Dave Huitema, Harro van Asselt and Johanna Forster

This introduction to the concepts and applications of Institutional and Organizational Analysis uses economic history, economics, law, and political science to inform its theoretical framework. Institutional and Organizational Analysis becomes the basis to show why the economic and political performance of countries worldwide have not converged, and reveals the lessons to be learned from it for business, law, and public policy.

This fourth and final volume collects 16 papers that explore further applications and extensions of Ostrom’s work. In fact, Ostrom had been writing about the scaling up of Bloomington School ideas to treat such problems since the mid-1990s. The third part of the volume moves from appli-cations of Ostrom’s ideas to continuing her own efforts to improve the IAD and SES frameworks so as to make them even more useful for researchers and analysts. The volume concludes with two papers by Ostrom reflecting on con-tinuing challenges confronting the social sciences gener-ally and interdisciplinary research in particular.

New and more dynamic forms of governing are appearing around the international climate regime centred on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They appear to be emerging spontaneously from the bot-tom up, producing a more dispersed pattern of governing, which Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom famously described as “polycentric.” This book brings together contributions from some of the world’s foremost experts to provide the first systematic test of the ability of polycentric thinking to explain and enhance societal attempts to govern cli-mate change.

Cyber War and Peace: Governing New Frontiers in the Information Age (Cambridge University Press)

Scott J. Shackelford

FORTHCOMING

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Allen, Douglas W., and Dean Lueck. 2018. “The Insight and the Legacy of the Theory of Share Tenancy.” Special issue, Man and the Economy: The Journal of the Coase Society, online June 16.

Alston, Lee J., and Bernardo Mueller. 2018. “Priests, Conflicts and Property Rights: The Impacts on Tenancy and Land Use in Brazil.” Special issue, Man and the Economy: The Journal of the Coase Society, online May 25.

Boettke, Peter. 2018. “Economics and Public Administration.” Presidential address to the Southern Economic Associa-tion. Southern Economic Journal, Mar. 23.

Cole, Daniel, and Aurelian Craiutu. 2018. “The Many Deaths of Liberalism.” Aeon Magazine, June 28.

Mathew, Ashwin J., and Coye Cheshire. 2018. A Fragmented Whole: Cooperation and Learning in the Practice of Infor-mation Security. Research Report. Berkeley, CA: CLTC.

Nagendra, Harini. 2018. “The Global South is Rich in Sustain-ability Lessons that Students Deserve to Hear.” Nature, May 23.

Nagendra, Harini, Xuemei Bai, Eduardo Brondizio, and Shuaib Lwasa. 2018. “The Urban South and the Predicament of Global Sustainability.” Nature Sustainability 1: 341–49.

Nagendra, Harini, and Hita Unnikrishnan. 2018. “The Lost Lakes of Bangalore.” Arcadia 13 (Spring), http://www.envi-ronmentandsociety.org/arcadia/lost-lakes-bangalore.

Sarker, Ashutosh, and William Blomquist. 2018. “Address-ing Misperceptions of Governing the Commons.” Jour-nal of Institutional Economics, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744137418000103.

Schoon, Michael, and Michael E. Cox. 2018. “Collaboration, Adaptation, and Scaling: Perspectives on Environmental Governance for Sustainability.” Sustainability 10(3): 679.

Shackelford, Scott, and Scott O. Bradner. Forthcoming. “Have You Updated Your Toaster? Transatlantic Approaches to Governing the Internet of Everything.” European Journal of International Law (https://ssrn.com/abstract=3208018).

Shackelford, Scott, and Austin Brady. 2018. “Is it Time for a National Cybersecurity Safety Board?” Albany Law Jour-nal of Science and Technology. (See also related items in News at IU Bloomington and Politico.)

Shackelford, Scott, Michael Mattioli, Steve Myers, and Austin Brady. 2018. “Securing the Internet of Healthcare.” Minne-sota Journal of Law, Science & Technology 19(2): 405–54.

Solorzao, Claudia Rodriguez, and Forrest Fleischman. 2018. “Institutional Legacies Explain the Comparative Efficacy of Protected Areas: Evidence from the Calakmul and Maya Biosphere Reserves of Mexico and Guatemala.” Global Environmental Change 50: 278–88.

ARTICLES

PUBLICATIONS (continued)

BLOG POSTS, INTERVIEWS, ETC.

Lee Alston, Interview, “Navigating Emerging Markets: Brazil,” Bloomberg Daybreak Americas, June 28, 2018.

Sheila Foster and Christian Iaione, “Ostrom in the city: Design principles for the urban commons.” The Nature of Cities, Aug. 2017.

Elinor & Vincent Ostrom are the topic of Dalibor Rohac’s “Indiana’s gift to the international order,” The American Interest, May 10, 2018.

Blog: “Ostrom’s framework: where people and nature meet,” Journal of Applied Ecology, June 27, 2018. https://jappliedecologyblog.wordpress.com/2018/06/27/ostroms-framework/.

Angie Raymond:

“Amid outcry over Facebook’s privacy issues, new approaches are needed to protect consumer data.” Press release, News at IU Bloomington, Apr. 5, 2018.

“E-Commerce Ruling Generates Reaction,” interview by Dan McGowan, Inside INdiana Business, June 21, 2018.

Scott Shackelford:

“What cybersecurity investigators can learn from airplane crashes.” The Conversation, Feb. 21, 2018 (republished by Security Week, AeroTime, GCN, Phys.org, and GovTech).

“Facebook says you ‘own’ all the data you post. Not even close, say privacy experts,” by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times, Mar. 19, 2018.

“This is exactly how much your personal information is worth to Facebook,” by Julia Glum, Time/Money Magazine, Mar. 21, 2018.

“Overhauling digital privacy in the EU,” On Point, NPR, Apr. 24, 2018.

“Ransomware attacks such as at South Bend’s Allied Physi-cians are becoming common,” South Bend Tribune, May 26, 2018.

Podcast: Iowa’s Poet Laureate, Mary Swander, speaking on farm transitions and one Bloomington farm’s clever long-term land use agreement, WFIU Earth Eats, Mar. 26, 2018. (Follow-up to a series of Farm Transfer Events led by James Farmer and Julia Valliant, Bloomington, IN, Nov. 2017.)

Derek Wall, “Restart Radio: Elinor Ostrom and the Commons.” Interview by Restart Project, Mar. 8, 2018.

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OSTROM WORKSHOPAdvancing effective governance worldwide

+ What does it take to ensure effective governance?

+ Why do similar rules produce different results in different settings?

+ How can decision makers be incentivized to choose long-term solutions over short-term gains?

These complex questions demand a comprehensive approach drawing on insight from many fields of study. We are the first and only organization to take this transdisciplinary approach to governance, bringing together experts across the academic spectrum. With affiliated faculty in nearly every school on campus, more than 30 U.S. universities, and institutions in 20 countries, the Ostrom Workshop is a truly global collaboration.

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The Ostrom Workshop was founded at Indiana University in 1973 by Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom and her husband, Vincent. Today, we carry forward their legacy by seeking and sharing solutions to the world’s most pressing problems involving communal and contested resources — from clean water to secure cyberspace.

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RESEARCH PROGRAMSCurrently, the Ostrom Workshop houses four transdisciplinary programs, and aspires to encompass many more.

+ Political, Economic, and Legal institutions and Organizations examines the wide range of governance structures and their applications at different scales.

+ Natural Resource Governance focuses on the ways we interact with our environment to access, protect, exploit, or conserve natural resources.

+ Cybersecurity and Internet Governance investigates such topics as how to mitigate the risks of cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure and the Internet of Things to promote cyber peace.

+ Data Management and Information Governance explores policies from open access and transparency to privacy and intellectual property.

The need for policies that incentivize effective governance is at the root of society’s most significant struggles. From famine to higher education, business loans to vaccinations, and disaster preparedness to internet connectivity, motivating people to work together is essential to overcoming our most important global challenges.

WE WORK ACROSS DISCIPLINES TO FIND EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS FOR A COMPLEX, INTERCONNECTED WORLD.

WHAT’S NEXT? Our aspiration is to be a global

destination drawing the foremost governance scholars and

thought leaders to Indiana University. Our pioneering approach

and distinguished legacy attract strong interest, yet support is

needed to bring these luminaries to campus.

True to our commitment to advancing cooperation, the Ostrom

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of advancing effective governance. We welcome new ideas and

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