SPEA - School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Education
B.A. at University of California, Los Angeles, 1954
M.A. at University of California, Los Angeles, 1962
Ph.D. at University of California, Los Angeles, 1965

Professional Experience

• Distinguished Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington
• Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington
• Senior Research Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington
• Founding Director, Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University, Tempe
• Professor (part-time), School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington

• Co-Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, 1973-2009
• Co-Director, Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Indiana University, 1996-2006
• Chair, Department of Political Science, Indiana University, 1980-84; Acting Chair, 1989-90
• Professor, Department of Political Science, Indiana University, 1974-91
• Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Indiana University, 1969-74
• Assistant Professor and Graduate Advisor, Department of Government, Indiana University, 1966-69
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Indiana University, 1965-66
• Personnel Analyst III, University of California, Los Angeles, 1957-61
• Employment Interviewer and Assistant Employee Relations Manager, Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc., Boston, MA, 1955-57

Awards, Honors & Certifications

• Honorary Doctorate, Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France, 2011
• Foreign Member, Académie d’Agriculture de France, Paris, France, 2011
• Honorary Professor, Beihang University, Beijing, China, 2011
• Adam Smith Award, Association of Private Enterprise Education, Nassau, Bahamas, 2011
• UCLA Medal, University of California, Los Angeles, 2011
• Honorary Doctorate, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 2010
• Distinguished Faculty Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2010
• Herman B. Wells Visionary Award, Indiana University Foundation, Bloomington, IN, 2010
• Honorary Member, Indiana Academy of Science, Indianapolis, IN, 2010
• Honorary Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2010
• Living Legend Award, Office of Women’s Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2010
• Distinguished Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2010
• The University Medal, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2010
• Sagamore of the Wabash Award, State of Indiana, 2009
• The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009
• Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award, APSA, Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations Section, 2009
• Reimar Lüst Award for International Scholarly and Cultural Exchange, Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 2009
• Jonathan M. Tisch Prize for Civic Engagement Research, Tufts University, Medford, MA, March 5, 2009
• Honorary Doctorate, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 2008
• Galbraith Award, American Agricultural Economics Association, 2008
• Honorary Doctorate, McGill University, Montreal, 2008
• William H. Riker Prize in Political Science, University of Rochester, 2008
• Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philadelphia, 2008 Beijer Fellow, The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm, Sweden, 2007 Honorary Doctorate, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 2007
• Honorary Doctorate in Commemoration of Carl Linnaeus, Uppsala University, Sweden, 2007
• Cozzarelli Prize, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006
• APSA, Political Economy Section, William Riker Award for Best Book on Political Economy, APSA, Political Economy Section, 2006
• Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2006
• Member, American Philosophical Society, Elected 2006
• James Madison Award, American Political Science Association, 2005
• Sustainability Science Award, Ecological Society of America, 2005
• Honorary Doctorate, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, 2005
• John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Sciences, 2004
• Lifetime Achievement Award, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, 2003
• Honorary Doctorate, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, 2002
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Elected September 2001
• Member, National Academy of Sciences, Elected May 2001
• Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award for Governing the Commons, APSA, Public Policy Section, 2000
• Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, Uppsala University, 1999
• Honorary Doctorate in Economics, University of Zurich, 1999
• Thomas R. Dye Service Award for outstanding service to the Policy Studies Organization, 1997
• Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy, 1997
• Miriam Mills Award for being an outstanding woman in the field of policy studies, Policy Studies Organization, 1996
• Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for excellence in the field of international environmental affairs for
• Governing the Commons, International Studies Association, 1992 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991
• Donald Campbell Award for an outstanding methodological innovator in public policy studies, Policy Studies Organization, 1986

Professional Interests

Exploring how institutional rules affect the structure of action situations within which individuals face incentives, make choices, and jointly affect each other. Problems involving collective goods and common-pool resource systems, and how various types of institutions enhance or detract from the capabilities of individuals to achieve equitable, workable, efficient solutions are a central theoretical concern.

Selected Publications
Full Vita

Books:

• Improving Irrigation in Asia: Sustainable Performance of an Innovative Intervention in Nepal, with Wai Fung Lam, Prachanda Pradhan, and Ganesh Shivakoti (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2011).
• Was mehr wird, wenn wir teilen: Vom Gesellschaftlichen wert der Gemeingüter. Translated by Silke Helfrich (Munich: Oekom Verlag, 2011).
• Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice, with Amy R. Poteete and Marco A. Janssen. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010).
• Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice, edited with Charlotte Hess (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007).
• Linking the Formal and Informal Economy: Concepts and Policies, edited with Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis and Ravi Kanbur (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2006; paperback published in 2007).
• Understanding Institutional Diversity (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005).
• The Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid with Clark Gibson, Krister Andersson, and Sujai Shivakumar (Oxford University Press, 2005).
• Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Human-Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems, edited with Emilio Moran (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005).
• Asian Irrigation in Transition: Responding to Challenges, edited with Ganesh Shivakoti, Douglas Vermillion, Wai Fung Lam, Ujjwal Pradhan, and Robert Yoder (New Delhi, India: Sage, 2005).

• “Why Do We Need to Protect Institutional Diversity?” European Political Science, advance online publication July 29, 2011, doi:10.1057/eps.2011.37.
• “Crafting Analytical Tools to Study Institutional Change” (with Xavier Basurto). Journal of Institutional Economics 7(3) (2011): 317–43. First Published Online August 16, 2010.
• “A Multimethod Approach to Study the Governance of Social-Ecological Systems” (with Marco Janssen and François Bousquet). Natures Sciences Sociétés (June 2011): 4–16.
• “Experimental Contributions to Collective Action Theory” (with Eric Coleman). In Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science, ed. James Druckman, Donald Green, James Kuklinski, and Arthur Lupia, 339–52. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
• “The Challenge of Forest Diagnostics” (with Harini Nagendra). Ecology and Society 16(2) (2011): 20. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss2/art20/.
• “Editorial.” Sustainable Hyderabad Project Newsletter 03/04 (Winter 2010/11).
• “Honoring James Buchanan.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Online May 15, 2011, doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2011.04.002.
• “Askö 1994: Commentary by Elinor Ostrom.” In Bringing Ecologists and Economists Together: The Askö Meetings and Papers, ed. Tore Söderqvist, Anna Sundbaum, Carl Folke, and Karl-Göran Mäler, 57–58. New York: Springer, 2011.
• “Background on the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework.” Policy Studies Journal 39(1) (February 2011): 7–27.
• “Reflections on ‘Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation’.” American Economic Review 101(1) (February 2011): 49–63.
• “Governing the Commons in the New Millennium: A Diversity of Institutions for Natural Resource Management” (with Harini Nagendra). In Re-Inventing Construction, ed. Ilka and Andreas Ruby, 380–87. Berlin, Germany: Ruby Press, 2010.
• “The Challenge of Self-Governance in Complex Contemporary Environments.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 24(4) (2010): 316–32.
• “Moving Beyond Panaceas: A Multi-Tiered Diagnostic Approach for Social-Ecological Analysis” (with Michael Cox). Environmental Conservation 37(4) (December 2010): 451–63.
• “Analyzing Collective Action.” Agricultural Economics 41(S1) (November 2010): 155–66.
• “Cooperation and the Commons” (with Björn Vollan). Science 330(6006) (November 12, 2010): 923–24.
• “Private and Common Property Rights” (with Charlotte Hess). In Property Law and Economics, Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, 2nd edition, ed. Boudewijn Bouckaert, 53–106. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2010.
• “Disturbance, Response, and Persistence in Self-Organized Forested Communities: Analysis of Robustness and Resilience in Five Communities in Southern Indiana” (with Forrest Fleischman, Kinga Boenning, Gustavo Garcia-Lopez, Sarah Mincey, Mikaela Schmitt-Harsh, Katrin Daedlow, Maria Claudia Lopez, Xavier Basurto, and Burney Fischer). Ecology and Society 15(4) (2010): 9. [online]
• “The Challenge of Crafting Rules to Change Open-Access Resources into Managed Resources.” In Is Economic Growth Sustainable?, ed. Geoffrey Heal, 168–205. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
• “Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems.” In Les Prix Nobel 2009, The Nobel Foundation, 401–44. Västerås, Sweden: Edita Västra Aros, 2010.
• “A Common-Pool Resource Experiment with Postgraduate Subjects from 41 Countries” (with T. K. Ahn and James Walker). Ecological Economics 69(12) (October 2010): 2624–33.
• “Nested Externalities and Polycentric Institutions: Must We Wait for Global Solutions to Climate Change before Taking Actions at Other Scales?” Economic Theory, OnlineFirst, August 6, 2010.
• “Institutional Analysis and Development: Elements of the Framework in Historical Perspective.” In Historical Developments and Theoretical Approaches in Sociology, ed. Charles Crothers, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers, 2010. [online]
• “Polycentric Systems for Coping with Collective Action and Global Environmental Change.” Global Environmental Change 20(4) (October 2010): 550–57.
• “Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems.” American Economic Review 100(3) (June 2010): 641–72. [Revised version of Nobel lecture delivered in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 8, 2009.]
• “Be Diverse” (with Harini Nagendra). Our Planet, the magazine of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (May 2010): 10–12.
• “A Long Polycentric Journey.” Annual Review of Political Science 13 (May 2010): 1–23.
• “The Institutional Analysis and Development Framework and the Commons.” Cornell Law Review 95(4) (May 2010): 807–15.
• “Lab Experiments for the Study of Social-Ecological Systems” (with Marco Janssen, Robert Holahan, and Allen Lee). Science 328(5978) (April 30, 2010): 613–17.
• “A Multi-Scale Approach to Coping with Climate Change and Other Collective Action Problems.” Solutions 1(2) (March–April 2010): 27–36.
• “Analyzing the Dynamic Complexity of Development Interventions: Lessons from an Irrigation Experiment in Nepal” (with Wai Fung Lam). Policy Sciences 43(1) (March 2010): 1–25.
• “Organizational Economics: Applications to Metropolitan Governance.” Journal of Institutional Economics 6(1) (March 2010): 109–15.
• “Revising Theory in Light of Experimental Findings.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 73 (2010): 68–72.