The Ecology of Games approach to examining complex governance systems in democratic
societies has been recently refurbished to infuse renewed vitality in the analysis of …

Over the last two decades many alternate theories of the policy process have been
developed. This essay covers recent scholarship (from 2008 to 2010) regarding the major …

This article provides an overview of the structure and evolution of the Institutional Analysis
and Development (IAD) framework and a short introduction to its use by scholars to analyze …

This guide provides definitions or brief explanations of all the major terms and concepts
used in the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework. Also included are terms …

Most powerful analytical tools used in the social sciences are well suited for studying static
situations. Static and mechanistic analysis, however, is not adequate to understand the …

Institutions are strategies, norms, and rules embodied in public policies and/or social
conventions. They reflect and establish expectations about who can do what, where, and …

Global warming is a critical crisis threatening human survival and development. International
organizations and countries worldwide are introducing policies and practices to achieve …

In this study, we used institutional analysis to investigate the design of innovative contracts
for agri-environmental and climate schemes. The aim of such contracts is to better …

The Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework is conceptually simple, but
theoretically rich. More recently, Elinor Ostrom developed a second, related framework, the …

The object of policy research is the understanding of the interaction among the machinery of
the state, political actors, and the public. To facilitate this understanding, a number of …