2022

Rojas Rivera, R., Ángela Milena, A., & Lopera González, M.A. (2022). The Institutional Grammar Tool. A Discussion of its Applications in Public Policy Research. Estudios Políticos, (65), 59-87.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.espo.n65a02

Kim, S. (2022). Analysis of Design, Community Attributes, and Performance of Fisheries Co-Management in South Korea, Ph.D. thesis, University of Colorado at Denver.

DeMattee, A.J. (2022). A grammar of institutions for complex legal topics: Resolving statutory multiplicity and scaling up to jurisdiction-level legal institutions. Policy Studies Journal.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12488

Havukainen, M., Mikkilä, M., & Kahiluoto, H. (2022). Global climate as a commons — Decision making on climate change in least developed countries. Environmental Science & Policy, 136, 761-771.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.08.003

Wróblewska, A., Pieliński, B., Seweryn, K., Saputa, K., Wichrowska, A., Sysko-Romańczuk, S., & Schreiber, H. (2022). Entity Graph Extraction from Legal Acts — a Prototype for a Use Case in Policy Design Analysis. arvix.org.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2209.00944 

Ghorbani, A. (2022). Institutional modelling: Adding social backbone to agent-based models. MethodsX, 9, 101801.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2022.101801

Frantz, C. & Siddiki, S. (2022). Institutional Grammar: Foundations and Applications for Institutional Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan.
Link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-86372-2

Siddiki, S., & Frantz, C. (2022). The institutional grammar in policy process research. Policy Studies Journal, 50(2), 299-314.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12466

Olivier, T. & Schlager, E. (2021). Rules and the Ruled: Understanding Joint Patterns of Institutional Design and Behavior in Complex Governing Arrangements. Policy Studies Journal, 50(2), 340-365.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12429

Havukainen, M., Mikkilä, M., & Kahiluoto, H. (2022). Climate Policy Reform in Nepal through the Lenses of the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework. Sustainability, 14(12), 7391.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14127391   

Falla, M., Prior, J., & Jacobs, B. (2022). Assessing the impact of sporting mega-events on the social and physical capital of communities in host cities: the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games experience. Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, (26), 5-27.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/cjlg.vi26.7683

Lemeilleur, S., Dorville, C., Niederle, P., & Ilbert, H. (2022). Analyzing institutional changes in community-based management: a case study of a participatory guarantee system for organic labeling in Brazil. Journal of Institutional Economics, 1-17.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S174413742200008X

Child, C., & Witesman, E. (2022). The Social Meanings of the Third Sector: How Action and Purpose Shape Everyday Understandings of “Nonprofit.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640221081523  

Shvartzshnaider, Y., Sanfilippo, M.R., & Apthrope, N. (2022). GKC-CI: A unifying framework for contextual norms and information governance. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 73(9), 1297-1313.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24633

Dixit, A., Deval, V., Dwivedi, V., Norta, A., & Draheim, D. (2022). Towards user-centered and legally relevant smart-contract development: A systematic literature review. Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 26, 100314.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jii.2021.100314

Chen, C., Heikkila, T., Weible, C.M., Yordy, J., Yi, H., Berardo, R. & et al. (2022). Policy composition and adoption duration: Capturing conflict in the legislative process. Policy Studies Journal, 00, 1– 25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12457

Mesdaghi, B., Ghorbani, A., & de Bruijne, M. (2022). Institutional dependencies in climate adaptation of transport infrastructures: an Institutional Network Analysis approach. Environmental Science & Policy, 127, 120-136.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.10.010

Sen, A., Atkisson, C., & Schweik, C. (2022). Cui Bono: Do Open Source Software Incubator Policies and Procedures Benefit the Projects or the Incubator? International Journal of the Commons, 16(1), 64-77.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1176

2021

Bagirova, A., Kuznetsova, E., & Blednova, N. (2021). State Support for Families with Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia: Institutional Grammar Tool Analysis. Public Policy and Administration, 20(3), 431-442.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.20.3.29198

Wassel, K.E. (2021). Writing the Menu: The Shaping of Local Food Systems’ Programs and Policies, Ph.D. thesis, The Florida State University.
Link: https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/diginole/2021_Fall_Wassel_fsu_0071E_16678

Maoz, E. (2021). The Frontier and the Plantation: A Police Economy of Post-slavery Jamaica, Ph.D. thesis, The University of Chicago.
Link: https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3623

Dehkordi, M. A. E., Ghorbani, A., Bravo, G., Farjam, M., van Weeren, R., Forsman, A., & De Moor, T. (2021). Long-Term Dynamics of Institutions: Using ABM as a Complementary Tool to Support Theory Development in Historical Studies. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 24(4).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18564/jasss.4706

Pieliński, B., Mering, T. and Szarfenberg, R. (2021), Keeping a distance but heading in the same direction: formal rules on unemployment benefit sanctions and social assistance benefit sanctions in Poland, 1989–2014, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 42(11-12), 1145-1164.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-09-2021-0227

Bushouse, B.K., Schweik, C.M., Siddiki, S., Rice, D., Wolfson, I. (2021). The Institutional Grammar: A Method for Coding Institutions and its Potential for Advancing Third Sector Research. Voluntas.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-021-00423-w

Nooteboom, B. (2021). Institutional grammar, causality and scripts. (2021). Academia Letters, Article 3394.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20935/AL3394

Deslatte, A., Helmke-Long, L., Anderies, J.M., Garcia, M., Hornberger, G.M. & Ann Koebele, E. (2021). Assessing sustainability through the Institutional Grammar of urban water systems. Policy Studies Journal, 00, 1– 20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12444

Herzog, L., Ingold, K.& Schlager, E. (2021). Prescribed by law and therefore realized? Analyzing rules and their implied actor interactions as networks. Policy Studies Journal, 00, 1– 21.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12448

Vannoni, M. (2021). A Political Economy Approach to the Grammar of Institutions: Theory and Methods. Policy Studies Journal, 00, 1-19. 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12427

Dunlop, C.A., Kamkhaji, J.C., Radaelli, C.M.& Taffoni, G. (2021). Measuring design diversity: A new application of Ostrom’s rule types. Policy Studies Journal, 00, 1– 21.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12440

Dunlop, C. A., Kamkhaji, J. C., Radaelli, C. M., & Taffoni, G. (2021). The Institutional Grammar Tool meets the Narrative Policy Framework: Narrating institutional statements in consultation. European Policy Analysis, 00, 1– 21.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1126

Sanfilippo, M.R; Frischmann, B.R.; Strandburg, K.J. (2021). Privacy and Knowledge Commons. In M. Sanfilippo, B. Frischmann, & K. Strandburg (Eds.), Governing Privacy in Knowledge Commons (Chap 1, pp. 5-50). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Book DOI: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/governing-privacy-in-knowledge-commons/FA569455669E2CECA25DF0244C62C1A1 [Open access]
Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108749978.002

Jones, K.M.L. & C. McCoy. (2021). Privacy in Practice. In M. Sanfilippo, B. Frischmann, & K. Strandburg (Eds.), Governing Privacy in Knowledge Commons (Chap 4, pp. 98-120). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Book DOI: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/governing-privacy-in-knowledge-commons/FA569455669E2CECA25DF0244C62C1A1 [Open access]
Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108749978.005

Shvartzshnaider, Y.; Sanfilippo, M.R.; & N. Apthorpe (2021). Contextual Integrity as a Gauge for Governing Knowledge Commons. In M. Sanfilippo, B. Frischmann, & K. Strandburg (Eds.), Governing Privacy in Knowledge Commons (Chap 9, pp. 220-244). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Book DOI: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/governing-privacy-in-knowledge-commons/FA569455669E2CECA25DF0244C62C1A1 [Open access]
Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108749978.010

Heikkila, T., Weible, C. M., Olofsson, K. L., Kagan, J. A., You, J., & Yordy, J. (2021). The structure of environmental governance: How public policies connect and partition California’s oil and gas policy landscape. Journal of Environmental Management, 284, 112069.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112069

Frantz, C. K., Siddiki, S. (2021). Institutional Grammar 2.0: A specification for encoding and analyzing institutional design. Public Administration, 1-26.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12719

Rice, D., Siddiki, S., Frey, S., Kwon, J. H., Sawyer, A. (2021). Machine coding of policy texts with the Institutional Grammar. Public Administration, 1-15.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12711

Ghorbani, A., Ho, P., & Bravo, G. (2021). Institutional form versus function in a common property context: The credibility thesis tested through an agent-based model. Land Use Policy, 102, 105237.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105237

Schlager, E. C., Bakkensen, L. A., Olivier, T., Hanlon, J. (2021). Institutional design for a complex commons: Variations in the design of credible commitments and the provision of public goods. Public Administration, 1-27.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12715

2020

Epstein, G., Morrison, T.H., Lien, A., Gurney, G.C., Cole, D.H., Delaroche, M., Villamayor Tomas, S., Ban, N., & Cox, M. (2020). Advances in understanding the evolution of institutions in complex social-ecological systems. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 44, 58-66.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2020.06.002

Katz, J.M. (2020). The Effect of Policy Implementation on Public Values, Ph.D. thesis, University of Colorado at Denver.

Bustamante, P., Gomez, M., Murtazashvili, I., & Weiss, M. (2020). Spectrum anarchy: why self-governance of the radio spectrum works better than we think. Journal of Institutional Economics, 16(6), 863-882.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744137420000259

DeMattee, A.J. (2020). Domesticating Civil Society: How and Why Governments Use Laws to Regulate CSOs, Ph.D. thesis, Indiana University.
Link: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/25813

Weible, C.M., Yordy, J., Heikkila, T., Yi, H., Berardo, R., Kagan, J. and Chen, C. (2020). Portraying the Structure and Evolution of Polycentricity via Policymaking Venues. International Journal of the Commons, 14(1).
DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1021

Dunlop, C. A., Kamkhaji, J., Radaelli, C. M., Taffoni, G., & C. Wagemann (2020). Does consultation count for corruption? The causal relations in the EU-28, Journal of European Public Policy, 27:11, 1718-1741.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2020.1784984

Brady, U. 2020). Robust Conservation Anarchy: Comparing Treaty Institutional Design for Evidence of Ostrom’s Design Principles, Fit, and Polycentricity, Ph.D. thesis, Arizona State University.
Link: https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.62774

Frantz, C. K. (2020). Unleashing the Agents: From a Descriptive to an Explanatory Perspective in Agent-Based Modelling. In: H. Verhagen, M. Borit, G. Bravo, N. Wijermans (Eds.). Advances in Social Simulation. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34127-5_16

Peralta Bogarin, S.M. (2020). Adapting the Grammar of Institutions to Study Constitutive Statements: The Case of Forest Laws in Paraguay, Ph.D. thesis, Michigan State University.

Lien, A. M. (2020). The institutional grammar tool in policy analysis and applications to resilience and robustness research. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 44, 1-5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2020.02.004

Pacheco-Vega, R. (2020). Governing Urban Water Conflict through Watershed Councils—A Public Policy Analysis Approach and Critique. Water, 12(7), 1849.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/w12071849

Stupak, N. (2020). The anatomy of institutions: Diagnosing the formation of legal rules. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 22(3), 343-352.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2020.1726175

Noori, S., Korevaar, G. and Ramirez Ramirez, A. (2020). Institutional Lens upon Industrial Symbiosis Dynamics: The Case of Persian Gulf Mining and Metal Industries Special Economic Zone. Sustainability, 12(15), p. 6192.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12156192

Turner, V.K. and Stiller, M. (2020). How Do Homeowners Associations Regulate Residential Landscapes? An Analysis of Rule Structure and Content in Maricopa County (AZ). Journal of the American Planning Association, 86(1), pp.25-38.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2019.1665474

Vázquez, I. (2020). Toward an Integrated History to Govern the Commons: Using the Archive to Enhance Local Knowledge. International Journal of the Commons, 14(1), 154–172.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.989

2019

Floress, K., Thompson, A., LeBlanc Fisher, C. (2019). Assessing Principles of Good Governance: The Case of Lake Wausau, Wisconsin. Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education, 167(1), 97-109.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1936-704X.2019.03314.x

Mosier, S.L. (2019). Policies as species: Viewing and classifying policy from an evolutionary biology perspective. Politics and the Life Sciences, 38(2), 117-131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pls.2019.10

Abebe, Y.A., Ghorbani, A., Nikolic, I., Vojinovic, Z., & Sanchez, A. (2019). Flood risk management in Sint Maarten – A coupled agent-based and flood modelling method. Journal of Environmental Management, 248, 109317.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109317

Dörrenbächer, N., & Mastenbroek, E. (2019). Passing the buck? Analyzing the delegation of discretion after transposition of European Union law. Regulation & Governance, 13(1), 70-85.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12153

Dunlop, C. A., Kamkhaji, J. C., & Radaelli, C. M. (2019). A sleeping giant awakes? The rise of the Institutional Grammar Tool (IGT) in policy research. Journal of Chinese Governance, 4(2), 163-180.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23812346.2019.1575502

Garcia, M., Koebele, E., Deslatte, A., Ernst, K., Manago, K., Treuer, G. (2019). Towards Urban Water Sustainability: Analyzing Management Transitions in Miami, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. Global Environmental Change, 58, 1–24.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/J.GLOENVCHA.2019.101967

Geary, J., Reay, T., & Bubela, T. (2019). The Impact of Heterogeneity in a Global Knowledge Commons: Implications for Governance of the DNA Barcode Commons. International Journal of the Commons, 13(2).
DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.861

Olivier, T. (2019). How do institutions address collective-action problems? Bridging and bonding in institutional design. Political Research Quarterly, 72(1), 162-176.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912918784199

Prior, J.H. (2019). Chapter 15 – Understanding the diverse norms and rules driving sustainable remediation: A study of positioning, aggregation, and scoping. In Deyi Hou (Ed.), Sustainable Remediation of Contaminated Soil and Groundwater: Materials, Processes, and Assessment (pp. 405-431). Butterworth-Heinemann.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-817982-6.00015-X

Siddiki, S., Heikkila, T., Weible, C.M., Pacheco‐Vega, R., Carter, D., Curley, C., Deslatte, A. and Bennett, A. (2019). Institutional Analysis with the Institutional Grammar. Policy Studies Journal.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12361

Molenveld, A., & van Buuren, A. (2019). Flood risk and resilience in the Netherlands: In search of an adaptive governance approach. Water, 11(12), 2563.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/w11122563

Hanlon, J., Olivier, T., & Schlager, E. (2019). Suspicious Collaborators: How Governments in Polycentric Systems Monitor Behavior and Enforce Public Good Provision Rules Against One Another. International Journal of the Commons, 13(2), 977–992.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.924

Abebe, Y. A., Ghorbani, A., Nikolic, I., Vojinovic, Z., & Sanchez, A. (2019). A coupled flood-agent-institution modelling (CLAIM) framework for urban flood risk management. Environ. Model. Softw., 111, 483-492.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.10.015

2018

Bindewald, L. (2018). The Grammar of Money: An Analytical Account of Money as a Discursive Institution in Light of the Practice of Complementary Currencies, Ph.D. thesis, Lancaster University (United Kingdom).
Link: https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/128117/

Angulo-Cázares, Reynaldo. (2018). Agency problems in basic education in Mexico: an institutional diagnosis. Convergencia, 25(77), 149-173. 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29101/crcs.v25i77.9224

Heikkila, T., & Weible, C. M. (2018). A semiautomated approach to analyzing polycentricity. Environmental Policy and Governance, 28(4), 308-318.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.1817

Rickabaugh, J.A. (2018). Finding the Unique Balance: Local Government Representation on the Boards of Regional Intergovernmental Organizations (RIGOs), Ph.D. thesis, University of Pittsburgh.
Link: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/35737/

Tschopp, M., Bieri, S., & Rist, S. (2018). Quinoa and production rules: How are cooperatives contributing to governance of natural resources?. International Journal of the Commons, 12(1), 402–427. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.826

Lien, A. M., Schlager, E., & Lona, A. (2018). Using institutional grammar to improve understanding of the form and function of payment for ecosystem services programs. Ecosystem Services, 31, 21-31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.03.011

Prior, J. (2018). Factors influencing residents’ acceptance (support) of remediation technologies. Science of the Total Environment, 624, 1369-1386.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.12.133

2017

Lien, A.M. (2017). Incentives for Ecosystem Services on Rangelands: Institutional Design and Stakeholder Attitudes, Ph.D. thesis, The University of Arizona.
Link: https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/624284

Olivier, T. (2017). Institutional Design and Adaptation in Regional-Scale Common-Pool Resource Institutions: Securing Access to High-Quality Drinking Water in Boston, New York, Portland, and San Francisco, Ph.D. thesis, The University of Arizona.
Link: https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/625646

Ghorbani, A., Bravo, G., Frey, U., and Theesfeld, I. (2017). Self-Organization in the Commons: An Empirically Tested Model. Environmental Modelling and Software, 96: 30-45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.06.039

Treuer, G., Koebele, E., Deslatte, A., Ernst, K., Garcia, M., and Manago, K. (2017). A narrative method for analyzing transitions in urban water management: The case of the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department, Water Resources Research, 53, 891– 908.
DOI:10.1002/2016WR019658.

Witting, A. (2017). Ruling out learning and change? Lessons from urban flood mitigation. Policy and Society, 36(2), 251-269.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2017.1322772

Christopher M. Weible, Tanya Heikkila & David P. Carter (2017). An Institutional and Opinion Analysis of Colorado’s Hydraulic Fracturing Disclosure Policy, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 19:2, 115-134.
DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2016.1150776

Abdullah, D., Abd Aziz, M. I., & Mohd Ibrahim, A. L. (2017). The Stories They Tell: Understanding International Student Mobility Through Higher Education Policy. Journal of Studies in International Education, 21(5), 450–466.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315317720766

2016

Flowers, J. (2016). Explaining Policy Differences as a Function of Diverse Governance Institutions, Ph.D. thesis, Georgia State University.
Link: https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/handle/1853/54971/FLOWERS-DISSERTATION-2016.pdf

Carter, D. P., Weible, C. M., Siddiki, S. N., & Basurto, X. (2016). Integrating core concepts from the institutional analysis and development framework for the systematic analysis of policy designs: An illustration from the US National Organic Program regulation. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 28(1), 159-185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0951629815603494

Dunajevas, E., & Skučienė, D. (2016). Mandatory pension system and redistribution: the comparative analysis of institutions in Baltic States. Central European Journal of Public Policy, 10(2), 16-29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cejpp-2016-0025

Feiock, R. C., Weible, C. M., Carter, D. P., Curley, C., Deslatte, A., & Heikkila, T. (2016). Capturing structural and functional diversity through institutional analysis: The mayor position in city charters. Urban Affairs Review, 52(1), 129-150.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087414555999

Ghorbani, A., & Bravo, G. (2016). Managing the commons: a simple model of the emergence of institutions through collective action. International Journal of the Commons, 10(1), 200–219. 
DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.606

Prior, J. (2016). The norms, rules and motivational values driving sustainable remediation of contaminated environments: a study of implementation. Science of the Total Environment, 544, 824-836.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.11.045

Siddiki, S., & Lupton, S. (2016). Assessing Nonprofit Rule Interpretation and Compliance. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 45(4_suppl), 156S-174S.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764016643608

Verhoog, R., Ghorbani, A., & Dijkema, G.P.J. (2016). Modelling socio-ecological systems with MAIA: A biogas infrastructure simulation. Environmental Modelling & Software, (81), 72-85.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.03.011

Watkins, C., & Westphal, L. M. (2016). People don’t talk in institutional statements: A methodological case study of the institutional analysis and development framework. Policy Studies Journal, 44(S1), S98-S122.
DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12139

Frantz, C.K.; Nowostawski, M. (2016). From Institutions to Code: Towards Automated Generation of Smart Contracts. Proceedings – IEEE 1st International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self-Systems (FAS-W), 2016, pp. 210-215. DOI: 10.1109/FAS-W.2016.53
URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7789470

2015

Frantz, C.K. (2015). Agent-Based Institutional Modelling: Novel Techniques for Deriving Structure from Behaviour, Ph.D. thesis, University of Otago (New Zealand).
Link: https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/handle/10523/5906

Mendez, A.Z. (2015). Hog Farmers’ Compliance and the Role of Agro-Environmental Institutions in the Missisquoi Bay, Ph.D. thesis, McGill University (Canada).
Link: https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/rr172094z

Lara, A. (2015). Rationality and complexity in the work of Elinor Ostrom. International Journal of the Commons, 9(2), 573–594.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.468

Espinosa, S., 2015. Unveiling the Features of a Regulatory System: The Institutional Grammar of Tobacco Legislation in Mexico. International Journal of Public Administration, 38(9), pp.616-631.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2014.952822

Carter, D. P., Weible, C. M., Siddiki, S. N., Brett, J., & Chonaiew, S. M. (2015). Assessing policy divergence: How to investigate the differences between a law and a corresponding regulation. Public Administration, 93(1), 159-176.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12120

Clement, S., Moore, S. A., & Lockwood, M. (2015). Authority, responsibility and process in Australian biodiversity policy. Environmental and Planning Law Journal, 32(2), 93-114.
URI: http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/25379

Frantz, C. K., Purvis, M. K., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Nowostawski, M. (2015). Modelling dynamic normative understanding in agent societies. Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, 16(4), 355-380.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12694/scpe.v16i4.1128

Roditis, M. L., Wang, D., Glantz, S. A. & Amanda Fallin (2015). Evaluating California Campus Tobacco Policies Using the American College Health Association Guidelines and the Institutional Grammar Tool. Journal of American College Health, 63:1, 57-67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2014.963108

Watkins, C., Westphal, L., Gobster, P., Vining, J., Wali, A., & Tudor, M. (2015). Shared Principles of Restoration Practice in the Chicago Wilderness Region. Human Ecology Review, 21(1), 155-178.
DOI: http://www.jstor.org/stable/24875124

Weible, C.M., Carter, D.P. (2015). The composition of policy change: comparing Colorado’s 1977 and 2006 smoking bans. Policy Sciences. 48, 207–231.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-015-9217-x

Ghorbani, A., Dijkema, G., & Schrauwen, N. (2015). Structuring Qualitative Data for Agent-Based Modelling. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS), 18(1).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18564/jasss.2573  

Hanlon, J.W. (2015). Maintaining robust resource governance: Mechanisms of formal institutional change in a federal bargain, Ph.D. thesis, The University of Arizona.

2014

Garcia Lozano, Alejandro J., “An Institutional, Socio-economic, and Legal Analysis of Fisheries Co-management and Regulation in the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica” (2014). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1539.
Link: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1539

Ward-Hunt, R. (2014). American secrets, American transparency: Analysis of the Freedom of Information Act as implemented by the US intelligence community, Ph.D. thesis, University of Colorado at Denver.
Link: https://digital.auraria.edu/work/ns/ccc3b4cd-95d0-4501-80ec-6983fce44975 

Rogers, E.A. (2014). Untangling brownfield implementations: How do institutions and values constrain the decisions of public administrators, Ph.D. thesis, Washington State University.
Link: https://hdl.handle.net/2376/111940

Ghorbani, A., Dijkema, G.P.J., Bots, P., Alderwereld, H., & Dignum, V. (2014). Model-driven agent-based simulation: Procedural semantics of a MAIA model. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 49, 27-40.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simpat.2014.07.009

Frantz C., Purvis M.K., Nowostawski M., Savarimuthu B.T.R. (2014). Modelling Institutions Using Dynamic Deontics. In: T. Balke, F. Dignum, M. van Riemsdijk, A. Chopra (Eds.). Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems. IX. COIN 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 8386. Springer, Cham.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07314-9_12

Novo, P., & Garrido, A. (2014). From policy design to implementation: an institutional analysis of the new Nicaraguan Water Law. Water Policy, 16(6), 1009-1030.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2014.188

Siddiki, S. (2014). Assessing Policy Design and Interpretation: An Institutions‐Based Analysis in the Context of Aquaculture in Florida and Virginia, United States. Review of Policy Research, 31(4), 281-303.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12075

Bower-Bir, J. (2014). What we deserve: The moral origins of economic inequality and our policy responses to it, Ph.D. thesis, Indiana University.
Link: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/19418

2013

Ghorbani, A., Aldewereld, H., Dignum, V., Noriega, P. (2013). Shared Strategies in Artificial Agent Societies. In: Aldewereld, H., Sichman, J.S. (eds) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems VIII. COIN 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7756.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37756-3_5

Frantz C., Purvis M.K., Nowostawski M., Savarimuthu B.T.R. (2013). nADICO: A Nested Grammar of Institutions. In: G. Boella, E. Elkind, B. T. R. Savarimuthu, F. Dignum, M. K. Purvis (Eds.). PRIMA 2013: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 8291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-44927-7_31

Kamran, M. A., & Shivakoti, G. P. (2013). Comparative institutional analysis of customary rights and colonial law in spate irrigation systems of Pakistani Punjab. Water International, 38(5), 601-619.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2013.828584

Ghorbani, A., Bots, P., Dignum, V., & Dijkema, G. (2013). MAIA: A Framework for Developing Agent-Based Social Simulations. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS), 16(2).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18564/jasss.2166

2012

Siddiki, S., Basurto, X., & Weible, C. M. (2012). Using the institutional grammar tool to understand regulatory compliance: The case of Colorado aquaculture. Regulation & Governance, 6(2), 167-188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5991.2012.01132.x

Bastakoti, R., & Shivakoti, G. (2012). Rules and collective action: An institutional analysis of the performance of irrigation systems in Nepal. Journal of Institutional Economics, 8(2), 225-246.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744137411000452

2011

Siddiki, S.N. (2011). Rules and decision making: Understanding the factors that shape regulatory compliance, Ph.D. thesis, University of Colorado at Denver.

Schlüter, A., & Vollan, B. (2011). Morals as an incentive? A field study on honour based flower picking. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 38(1), 79–97.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbq045

Siddiki, S., Weible, C. M., Basurto, X., & Calanni, J. (2011). Dissecting policy designs: An application of the institutional grammar tool. Policy Studies Journal, 39(1), 79-103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0072.2010.00397.x

2010

Smajgl, A., Izquierdo, L.R., & Huigen, M. (2010). Rules, Knowledge, and Complexity: How Agents shape their Institutional Environment. Journal of Modelling and Simulation of Systems, 1(2), 98-107.
URL: Link to publication

Basurto, X., Kingsley, G., McQueen, K., Smith, M., & Weible, C. M. (2010). A systematic approach to institutional analysis: Applying Crawford and Ostrom’s grammar. Political Research Quarterly, 63(3), 523-537.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912909334430

Schlüter, A., & Theesfeld, I. (2010). The grammar of institutions: The challenge of distinguishing between strategies, norms, and rules. Rationality and Society, 22(4), 445-475.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1043463110377299

Vitale, T. (2010). Regulation by Incentives, Regulation of the Incentives in Urban Policies. Transnational Corporations Review, 2:2, 35-45. DOI: 10.1080/19186444.2010.11658232
DOI: https://doi-org.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/10.1080/19186444.2010.11658232

2008

Smajgl, A., Izquierdo, L. R., & Huigen, M. (2008). Modeling endogenous rule changes in an institutional context: The ADICO Sequence. Advances in Complex Systems, 11(02), 199-215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/S021952590800157X

2007

Ebenhöh, E. (2007). Modelling rules, norms, and institutional change using the grammar of institutions. Proceedings of the 4th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, ESSA 2007, 225–235.
URL: Link to publication

2005

Ostrom, E. (2005). Chapter Six: Why Classify Generic Rules? Understanding Institutional Diversity (pp. 175-185). Princeton University Press.

2004

Carlson, N.E. (2004). The institutional design of civil society: Associational political institutions and support for democratic government, Ph.D. thesis, Duke University.
Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237383126_The_Institutional_Design_of_Civil_Society_Practical_Roots_of_Constitutional_Democracy

1998

1995

Deadman, P.J. (1997). Modeling individual behavior in common pool resource management experiments with autonomous agents, Ph.D. thesis, The University of Arizona.

1995

Crawford, S. E. S., & Ostrom, E. (1995). A Grammar of Institutions. The American Political Science Review, 89(3), 582-600.
DOI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/208297