Archived Research Spotlights

Portrait of Aaron Deslatte

Aaron Deslatte

Aaron Deslatte is an associate professor at the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington, where he directs the Metropolitan Governance and Management Transitions Laboratory. He is also a faculty affiliate with the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop. His research focuses on advancing economic and community development through local governance, specifically the role of public managers in enhancing sustainability.

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Edella Schlager

Edella Schlager is the Melody S. Robidoux Foundation Fund Leadership Chair and the director of the School of Government and Public Affairs in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona. She is a founding member of the Institutional Grammar Research Initiative. Her research focuses on the institutional design and analysis of water governance systems. Her work has been published in the International Journal of the Commons, the Policy Studies Journal, Public Administration, and Ecology and Society, among other outlets.

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Bartosz Pieliński

Bartosz Pieliński is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Warsaw. He is a founding member of the Institutional Grammar Research Initiative. His research focuses on quantitative analysis of policy design; an important portion of his work involves applying computational methods to analyze language found in policy texts.

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Irene Pérez Ibarra

Irene Pérez Ibarra is a researcher at the AgriFood Institute of Aragon, part of the University of Zaragoza in Spain. Her research focuses on the intersection of social and ecological systems as well as the governance of small-scale agricultural systems and their resilience to global climate change.

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Amineh Ghorbani

Amineh Ghorbani is an associate professor in the Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. She co-developed the Institutional Network Analysis, a framework for studying institutional interdependency as well as identifying institutional voids and points of conflict. She is also a proponent of institutional modelling, which involves applying agent-based and simulation modeling to study institutional behavior and dynamics. Her research interests center on collective action around climate change.

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Tomás in Hope, Alaska

Tomás Olivier

Tomás Olivier is an assistant professor in the School of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University. His work focuses on the governance of shared natural resources, and he is particularly interested in how groups of actors collaborate to address collective action problems.

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Seth Frey

Seth Frey is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at U.C. Davis. He uses data science to answer quantitative questions about human institutions, with a special interest in how online communities support self-governance and personal empowerment. Seth has published numerous articles on these topics and has participated in several interdisciplinary research and education projects . . .

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Tanya Heikkila

Tanya Heikkila is the Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver’s School of Public Affairs. She researches and teaches policy processes and environmental governance with a focus on conflict and collaboration in the context of interstate watersheds, large-scale ecosystem restoration programs, and unconventional oil and gas development . . .

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Claudio Radaelli

Claudio Radaelli is Professor of Comparative Public Policy at the European University Institute’s School of Transnational Governance (Florence). He is also a long-time IGRI affiliate. Professor Radaelli’s research interests include the policy process of the European Union, the effects of EU policies on the Member States, the theory of policy learning, and the roles and usages of expertise and ideas in public policy and administration . . .

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