This list includes articles/manuscripts, edited book chapters, review articles, books, and dissertations and master’s theses that address IG-related work (theoretically, empirically, or methodologically).
Brandsma, G. J., Blom-Hansen, J., Meijer, C., & Moodley, K. (2025). Computational Identification of Regulatory Statements in EU Legislation. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2505.00479.
Bushouse, B. K., Virgüez-Ruiz, S., Chakraborti, M., & Frey, S. (2025). Advancing Text Analysis for Nonprofit Research: Using Semantic Role Labeling to Automate Institutional Grammar Coding of Nonprofit Laws and Policies. Nonprofit Policy Forum. https://doi.org/10.1515/npf-2024-0048.
Chen, Y., Zhou, C., & Richardson-Barlow, C. (2025). Towards Stringent Ecological Protection and Sustainable Spatial Planning: Institutional Grammar Analysis of China’s Urban–Rural Land Use Policy Regulations. Land (Basel), 14(9), 1896. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14091896.
Deslatte, A., Adams, J. A., Cheema, F., Barnes, J. L., Koebele, E. A., & Alonso Vicario, S. (2025). Understanding the Impact of Institutions on Climate‐Adaptive Policy Designs: A Study of Collective Action Inference in Urban Water Systems. Policy Studies Journal, 53(3), 637–653. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.70060.
Deslatte, A., Koebele, E. A., & Wiechman, A. (2025). Embracing the ambiguity: Tracing climate response diversity in urban water management. Public Administration (London), 103(1), 250–272. https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.13017.
Filgueiras, F., Lui, L., Rosa, T. G., & Candido Ferreira, G. (2025). The institutional design of data governance in Brazil: entropy, restrictiveness and institutional grammar. Policy Design and Practice, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/25741292.2025.2460838.
Frantz, C. K. (2025). IG Parser: A Software Package for the Encoding of Institutional Statements using the Institutional Grammar. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2505.13393.
Ghorbani, A., Siddiki, S., Mesdaghi, B., Bosch, M., & Abebe, Y. A. (2025). Correction: Understanding Institutional Compliance in Flood Risk Management: A Network Analysis Approach Highlighting the Significance of Institutional Linkages and Context. International Journal of the Commons, 19(1), 357–358. https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1654.
Grimley, M., Datta, M., Giesting, A., Komoroski, S., Masson, G., Sciamanda, M., & Chan, G. (2025). Institutions, in time: Designing feedback pathways for shared infrastructure transitions. Policy Studies Journal, 53(3), 654–680. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12594.
Johnson, C. D., Jones, D., Matthews, T., & Burke, M. (2025). Fauna-sensitive road design in practice: lessons from Australia. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2025.2572995.
Kianpour, M., & Frantz, C. (2025). Analysis of Institutional Design of European Union Cyber Incident and Crisis Management as a Complex Public Good. Regulation & Governance, 19(4), 1037–1062. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12640.
Lai, C. H., Zheng, H., Liu, Y., & Zhao, J. (2026). A rule-based approach for water governance regime assessment of interstate river basins. Journal of Hydrology (Amsterdam), 664, Article 134409. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.134409.
Veer, R. van ‘t, Meijer, H., Lukszo, Z., Hasankhani, M., & Ghorbani, A. (2025). Hydrogen distribution in the Netherlands: Addressing Ambiguities in the regulatory framework. Energy Policy, 206, Article 114794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114794.
Virgüez‐Ruiz, S., Atkisson, C., Bushouse, B., & Schweik, C. (2025). Combining Text‐Based Institutional Network and Cost–Benefit Methods to Advance Policy Design Analysis: An Illustrative Application to Nonprofit Open‐Source Software Incubation. Policy Studies Journal, 53(3), 618–636. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.70061.
Yang, C., & Jia, W. (2025). How policy designs influence the innovation performance of China’s emergency industry: an institutional grammar perspective. Kybernetes, 54(2), 1199–1218. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-08-2023-1572.
Yu, D. J., Shin, H. C., Olivier, T., Garcia, M., Meerow, S., & Park, J. (2025). Logical interdependencies in infrastructure: What are they, how to identify them, and what do they mean for infrastructure risk analysis? Risk Analysis, 45(2), 356–375. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.16555.
Zhou, C., Zhang, W., & Richardson-Barlow, C. (2025). Navigating ecological civilisation: Polycentric environmental governance and policy regulatory framework in China. Energy Research & Social Science, 128, Article 104347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104347.
Ambrose, G., Gregoire-Zawilski, M., Siddiki, S., & Oesterling, N. (2024). Understanding policy evolution using institutional grammar: net metering policies in the United States. Policy Design and Practice, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/25741292.2024.2342093.
Bunders, D. J., & De Moor, T. (2024). Using the institutional grammar to understand collective resource management in a heterogenous cooperative facing external shocks. Regulation & Governance. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12607.
Dario, C., Curley, C., & Mach, K. J. (2024). Shaping coastal nature-based solutions: Perceptions and policy priorities of living shorelines. Nature-Based Solutions, 6, 100179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbsj.2024.100179.
Deslatte, A., Koebele, E. A., & Wiechman, A. (2024). Embracing the ambiguity: Tracing climate response diversity in urban water management. Public Administration. https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.13017.
Detzi, D. W. (2024). Bureaucracies at War: Using Institutional Grammar and Network Analysis to Examine National Security Decision-Making During Counterinsurgencies. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
Esposito, G., Taffoni, G., Terlizzi, A., & Crutzen, N. (2024). Between institutions and narratives: Understanding collective action in innovation policy processes. European Policy Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1224.
Fabris, B., Belfrage, M., & Lorig, F. (2024). Institutional Modelling: A Case Study of the Swedish Organ Donation System. In Long, F., Tucker, J., Lindström, A. D., Dignum, F., Murukannaiah, P., Theodorou, A., Yolum, P. (Eds.). HHAI 2024: Hybrid Human AI Systems for the Social Good: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence, IOS Press, 460–462. https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1864645/FULLTEXT01.pdf#page=481.
Filgueiras, F., Liu, L., & Veloso, M. T. T. (2024). The Institutional Grammar of Data Protection and Privacy in Brazil. Dados, 68(1). https://doi.org/10.1590/dados.2025.68.1.346.
Ghorbani, A., Siddiki, S., Mesdaghi, B., Bosch, M., & Abebe, Y. A. (2024). Understanding Institutional Compliance in Flood Risk Management: A Network Analysis Approach Highlighting the Significance of Institutional Linkages and Context. International Journal of the Commons, 18(1), 522–540. https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1351.
Horio, B. M. (2024). The Fuzzy Line Between Structure and Agency: A Fuzzy Inference Approach to Modeling Agent Response to Governing Institutions. Ph.D. thesis, George Mason University. https://mars.gmu.edu/entities/publication/cab148cf-ec9a-4011-9c7a-c495428aa9ae.
Kamkhaji, J., Santaniello, M., & Vecchi, G. (2024). Cybersecurity Policy in the European Union. Comparing the Design of Cybersecurity Agencies in Italy and Germany with the Institutional Grammar. The Italian Journal of Public Policy, 1, 79–112. https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1483/113153.
Khan, S. O. (2024). Institutional Analysis of Consumer Neurotechnology Regulation: Mediating Third-Party Autonomy. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
McGovern, R., & Jones, M. (2024). The narrative policy framework and institutions. Review of Policy Research, 42(5), 1087–1108. https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12616.
Phiri, G., Roaf, V., Hutchings, P., & Evans, B. (2024). Legislative influence on the decline of public toilet provision in the UK: a case study of Leeds city. Journal of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene for Development, 14(12), 1277–1290. https://doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2024.380.
Angulo Cázares, R. (2023). Institutional Analysis of the Theory of Change of Pacto Por México Education Reform: The Quest for Quality in Education. Gestión Y Política Pública, 32(2), 61–95. https://doi.org/10.60583/gypp.v32i2.8121.
Björkvik, E., Blyth, S., Blicharska, M., Danley, B., & Rönnbäck. (2023). Informing obligations: Best practice information for catch-and-release in Swedish local recreational fisheries management. Fisheries Management and Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12622.
Brady, U. (2023). The grammar of monitoring and enforcement mechanisms in international conservation: A comparative institutional analysis of four treaty regimes. Environmental Policy and Governance, 33(5), 489–503. https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.2045.
Chen, C., Weible, C. M., Heikkila, T., & Kagan, J. A. (2023). Comparing and Analyzing Policy Formulation of Proposed and Final Public Policies. International Review of Public Policy, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.4000/irpp.3430.
Deslatte, A., Koebele, E. A., Bartels, L., Wiechman, A., Alonso Vicario, S., Coughlin, C., & Rybolt, D. (2023). Institutions, Voids, and Dependencies: Tracing the Designs and Robustness of Urban Water Systems. International Review of Public Policy, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.4000/irpp.3455.
Dorville, C., & Lemeilleur, S. (2023). Institutional change in community-based management for organic labeling: a case study from a Participatory Guarantee System in France. Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, 104, 377–404. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41130-023-00202-9.
Filgueiras, F., & Lui, L. (2023). The grammar of institutions as a tool for analyzing institutional design. Rev. Bras. Ci. Soc., 38(111). https://doi.org/10.1590/3811032/2023.
Juárez Pastor, L., Cucurachi, S., Subramanian, V., & Ghorbani, A. (2023). Caste, Mistrust and Municipal Inaction: The Interwoven Barriers for the Integration of Waste Pickers in India. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4612716.
Lai, C. H., & Zhao, J. (2023). Decomposing the Institutional Structure of Interstate River Basins Using Institutional Grammar and Institutional Analysis and Development Framework. Journal of Water Resources Planning & Management, 149(7), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1061/JWRMD5.WRENG-5966.
Mathilde, H. (2023). Studying the socio-spatial dynamics and organizational rules in Lake Guiers’ region, Senegal: For the mobilization of two living labs in the frame of the “Santés et Territoires” project. Master’s thesis, Norwegian University of Life Sciences. https://agritrop.cirad.fr/606685/.
Montes, N., Curto, G., Osman, N., & Sierra, C. (2023). An Agent-Based Model for Poverty and Discrimination Policy-Making. University of Notre Dame. https://doi.org/10.7274/24870333.v1.
Pérez-Ibarra, I., Tenza-Peral, A., Soler-Navarro, D., de la Iglesia, D. A., & Garate-Marin, C. (2023). Evolution and diversity of institutions: Using institutional grammar to analyze governance changes in traditional crop-livestock systems. International Review of Public Policy, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.4000/irpp.3332.
Pieper, L., Virgüez, S., Schlager, E., & Schweik, C. (2023). The Use of the Institutional Grammar 1.0 for Institutional Analysis: A Literature Review. International Journal of the Commons, 17(1), 256–270. https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1214.
Pindaru, L. C., Nita, A., Niculae, I. M., Manolache, S., & Rozylowicz, L. (2023). More streamlined and targeted. A comparative analysis of the 7th and 8th Environment Action Programmes guiding European environmental policy. Heliyon, 9(9), e19212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19212.
Ran, A., & Liu, L. (2023). The change and continuity in China’s S&T policy: an institutional grammar (IG) approach. Asian Journal of Technology Innovation. https://doi.org/10.1080/19761597.2023.2181832.
Sadewo, H. M. (2023). Institutional Grammar, Requirements, and Monitoring for Low-Income Housing Program: A Comparative Study of Indonesia’s FLPP and California’s LIHTC. Master’s thesis, University of Groningen. https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4375/.
Siddiki, S., & Frantz, C. K. (2023). Understanding the Effects of Social Value Orientations in Shaping Regulatory Outcomes through Agent-Based Modeling: An Application in Organic Farming. International Review of Public Policy, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.4000/irpp.3398.
Siddiki, S., Brady, U., & Frantz, C. K. (2023). The Institutional Grammar: Evolving Directions in Current Research. International Review of Public Policy, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.4000/irpp.3550.
Siddiki, S., & Frantz, C. K. (2023). Understanding regulation using the Institutional Grammar 2.0. Regulation & Governance. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12546.
Wróblewska, A., Pieliński, B., Seweryn, K., Sysko-Romańczuk, S., Saputa, K., Wichrowska, A., & Schreiber, H. (2023). Automating the Analysis of Institutional Design in International Agreements. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.16750.
Yang, C., & Jia, W. (2023). How policy designs influence the innovation performance of China’s emergency industry: an institutional grammar perspective. Kybernetes. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-08-2023-1572.
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. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12457.
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. https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640221081523.
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. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12488.
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jii.2021.100314.
Falla, M. J. (2022). Sporting Mega-Events and Their Influence on the Social and Physical Capital of Communities in the Host City: The Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Experience. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
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. https://doi.org/10.5130/cjlg.vi26.7683.
Frantz, C., & Siddiki, S. (2022). Institutional Grammar: Foundations and Applications for Institutional Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-86372-2.
Ghorbani, A. (2022). Institutional modelling: Adding social backbone to agent-based models. MethodsX, 9, 101801. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2022.101801.
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. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14127391.
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.08.003.
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. https://doi.org/10.1017/S174413742200008X.
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.10.010.
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. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.espo.n65a02.
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. http://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1176.
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. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24633.
Siddiki, S., & Frantz, C. (2022). The institutional grammar in policy process research. Policy Studies Journal, 50(2), 299–314. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12466.
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. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2209.00944.
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. https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.20.3.29198.
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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-021-00423-w.
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). https://doi.org/10.18564/jasss.4706.
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. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12444.
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. 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. https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1126.
Frantz, C. K., & Siddiki, S. (2021). Institutional Grammar 2.0: A specification for encoding and analyzing institutional design. Public Administration, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12719.
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105237.
Gizinski, S., Kuzba, M., Pielinski, B., Sienkiewicz, J., Łaniewski, S., & Biecek, P. (2021). MAIR: Framework for mining relationships between research articles, strategies, and regulations in the field of explainable artificial intelligence. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2108.06216.
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112069.
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. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12448.
Jones, K. M. L., & McCoy, C. (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. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108749978.00v5.
Maoz, E. (2021). The Frontier and the Plantation: A Police Economy of Post-slavery Jamaica. Ph.D. thesis, The University of Chicago. https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3623.
Nooteboom, B. (2021). Institutional grammar, causality and scripts. Academia Letters, Article 3394. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL3394.
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. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12429.
Pieliński, B., Mering, T., & 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. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-09-2021-0227.
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. https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12711.
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. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108749978.002.
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. https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12715.
Shvartzshnaider, Y., Sanfilippo, M. R., & Apthorpe, N. (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. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108749978.010.
Siddiki, S., & Frantz, C. K. (2021). New opportunities for institutional analysis in public administration research. Public Administration (London), 99(2), 213–221. https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12753.
Vannoni, M. (2021). A Political Economy Approach to the Grammar of Institutions: Theory and Methods. Policy Studies Journal, 00, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12427.
Wassel, K. E. (2021). Writing the Menu: The Shaping of Local Food Systems’ Programs and Policies. Ph.D. thesis, The Florida State University. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/diginole/2021_Fall_Wassel_fsu_0071E_16678.
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. https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.62774.
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. 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. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/25813.
Dunlop, C. A., Kamkhaji, J., Radaelli, C. M., Taffoni, G., & Wagemann, C. (2020). Does consultation count for corruption? The causal relations in the EU-28. Journal of European Public Policy, 27(11), 1718–1741. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2020.1784984.
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2020.06.002.
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. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34127-5_16.
Hesan, R., Seddighi, A. H., & Sharifzadeh, R. (2020). Systematic analysis of law: A case study of the iranian law on preventing and confronting misconducts in scientific works. Pizhūhishnāmah-i pardāzish va mudiriyyat-i iṭṭilāʻāt (Online), 35(4), 893–920.
Katz, J. M. (2020). The Effect of Policy Implementation on Public Values. Ph.D. thesis, University of Colorado at Denver.
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2020.02.004.
Noori, S., Korevaar, G., & 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), 6192. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12156192.
Pacheco-Vega, R. (2020). Governing Urban Water Conflict through Watershed Councils—A Public Policy Analysis Approach and Critique. Water, 12(7), 1849. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12071849.
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