The Reimagining the State workshop will be held immediately following the Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop (WOW7), which will be June 19-21, 2024, at Indiana University Bloomington. For more information on the WOW, please go here.
To set the stage for the Reimagining the State workshop, several members of the organizing committee intend to hold panels on state-reinforced self-governance and the Institutional Grammar at the WOW. Information on these panels can be found below.
Cases in State-Reinforced Self-Governance
Panel organizers: Daniel A. DeCaro, Edella Schlager, and Emmanuel Frimpong-Boamah
Panel abstract: State-reinforced self-governance (SRSG) refers to the idea that governments can use their legislative, administrative, regulatory, and fiscal powers to enable self-governance of complex social-ecological dilemmas and systems. DeCaro, Schlager, and Frimpong-Boamah have been working to formalize concepts, frameworks, and analytical methods to study SRSG, linking SRSG with co-production and adaptive/transformative governance. This work has resulted in a proliferation of case studies illustrating diverse forms of SRSG, as well as instances of state-controlled governance and maladaptation. This panel invites scholars to explore fundamental themes of state control vs. self-governance, polycentricity, democracy and collaborative governance, using selected case studies as the basis for discussion. These cases will span diverse scales, governance structures, state/non-state relationships, settings, sectors, and social-ecological dilemmas, throughout the world. For greater theoretical perspective, we also discuss the conceptual evolution of SRSG, building from Sarker’s (2013) initial coining of the term and Vincent and Elinor Ostrom’s foundational work on polycentricity and societal self-governance. Finally, we invite participants to discuss future directions, envisioning next steps in the evolution of SRSG research and policy application.
The Institutional Grammar
Panel organizers: Saba Siddiki, Christopher Frantz, and Ute Brady
Panel abstract: The Institutional Grammar Working Group comprising of scholars from the Institutional Grammar Research Initiative (IGRI) proposes a set of four panels that feature research advancing the Institutional Grammar (IG) theoretically and methodologically. The IG is an increasingly prominent institutional analysis approach, recognized for its ability to support the study of institutions in a variety of institutional domains in connection with a diverse array of theoretical and methodological approaches. Papers featured on the proposed panels address several themes of enduring and growing interest, including: analysis of the interplay between institutions-in-form and institutions-in-use, computational institutional analyses, methodological and technical development of the IG, evaluation of institutional performance, and modeling individual decision making in institutional settings. Consistent with extant applications, authors of featured papers hail from different disciplines, research orientations, and geographic locations.
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