IGRI Research Seminar

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The IGRI hosts a monthly virtual research seminar that features presentations by scholars from around the world interested in examining the antecedents, structure, and implications of institutional design leveraging the Institutional Grammar.

The seminars are held on the first Tuesday of every month from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern time at the Zoom links listed with each individual seminar. Seminars are typically recorded and posted to the IGRI YouTube Channel.

See below for the schedule of speakers and topics (upcoming & past).

Upcoming

There will be no December research seminar this year. We will resume presentations on January 7, 2025 with Asilata Karandikar. Happy Holidays to everyone!

Past Research Seminars

Integration of the informal waste sector in the Indian city of Chennai: An institutional network analysis

Speaker(s):

Lidia Juárez Pastor, Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands (TU Delft)

Infrastructure Governance and Institutional Grammar: A conceptual framework and application to drinking water systems in Chicagoland

Speaker(s):
Thomas Skuzinski and Carolina Velandia Hernandez, Northern Illinois University; Kate Albrecht and Jason Michnick, University of Illinois Chicago

Embedding Equity into Policy Design

Speaker(s):
Cali Curley, University of Miami

Vertical Synchronization in policy design and implementation for effective governance of rural water supply using Institutional Grammar

Speaker(s):
Seemi Waheed, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan

A configurational perspective on the EU Green Deal: an IGT application

Speaker(s):
Giulia Bazzan, Copenhagen University, Denmark

Institutional dependencies in climate adaptation of transport infrastructures: an Institutional Network Analysis approach

Speaker(s):
Batoul Mesdaghi and Amineh Ghorbani, TU Delft, The Netherlands

Coding with the IG: Common Challenges and Finding Common Solutions

Speaker(s):
Santiago Virgüez-Ruiz, Brenda Bushouse, Doug Rice, Charlie Schweik, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Seth Frey, University of California Davis

The anatomy of institutions: Using institutional grammar for diagnosing the formation of legal rules

Speaker(s):
Nataliya Stupak, Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Germany

Workshopping IG-related issues and puzzles

Speaker(s):
IGRI Directorate : Saba Siddiki, Syracuse University; Christopher Frantz, Norwegian University of Science & Technology; and Ute Brady, Arizona State University

The grammar of money – ADICO analysis of central banks’ monetary ontologies

Speaker(s):
Leander Bindewald, Independent researcher and consultant

A national database of state and county level non-pharmaceutical intervention policies to mitigate the spread of COVID-19

Speaker(s):
Aaron Lien, Liz Baldwin, and Tom Evans, University of Arizona

Does the Quality of Legislation Increase Compliance? Using natural language processing (NLP) to Measure Complexity and Ambiguity in Legal Texts

Speaker(s):
Matia Vannoni, King’s College London, Department of Political Economy, PERICLES, and IGRI affiliate, and Moritz Osnabrügge, Durham University, School of Government and International Affairs

Adapting the grammar of institutions to study constitutive statements: The case of forest laws in Paraguay

Speaker(s):
Silvana Peralta, National Ministry of the Environment, Paraguay

Extracting institutional statements in open source software development

Speaker(s):
Mahasweta Chakraborti, University of California, Davis

Using the Institutional Grammar to Analyze Public Policy

Speaker(s):
Christopher M. Weible and Tanya Heikkila, University of Colorado Denver

Regulative Monitoring & Enforcement Institutional Design in International Conservation Governance: A Comparison Across Four Treaty Regimes

Speaker(s):
Ute Brady, Syracuse University

Desert as an Emergent Social Institution

Speaker(s):
Jacob Bower-Bir, Indiana University

The Institutional Grammar Tool Meets The Narrative Policy Framework: Narrating Institutional Statements in Consultation

Speaker(s):
Claire Dunlop and Jonathan Kamkhaji, University of Exeter, United Kingdom; Claudio Radaelli and Gaia Taffoni, European University Institute, Florence, Italy

People Don’t Talk in Institutional Statements: Applying the Grammar to Interview Data in an Ecological Restoration Context

Speaker(s):
Lynne Westphal, Ph.D., U.S. Forest Service

Advancing Institutional Theory & Analysis: Current Initiatives Extending the Ostrom Research Agenda

Speaker(s):
Moderator: Edella Schlager (University of Arizona)
Presenters: Tine de Moor (Institutions for Collective Action/Erasmus University, The Netherlands); Marco Janssen (Center for Behavior, Institutions, and the Environment (CBIE)/Arizona State University); John Anderies (Library on Governance of Social-Ecological Systems/Arizona State University); Scott Shackelford (Ostrom Workshop/Indiana University); Saba Siddiki (IGRI/Syracuse University).