SKKU Training Sessions, January 2008

Michael McGinnis and Amos Sawyer, Co-Instructors

Workshop, Indiana University, Bloomington

Outline of Session Topics and Readings

Updated Jan. 8, 2008

WEEK 1

Y673 Seminar, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 3:30-5:30

Overview of Seminar

To be distributed for discussion during class:

Y673 Course Syllabus

Overview of Workshop (Power Point Presentation)

Training Session 1. Thursday, Jan. 10, 8:30-10:30

Overview of Basic Themes and Concepts in Workshop Research Programs

History of the Workshop by Pamela Jagger. 2004. Artisans of Political Theory and Empirical Inquiry: Thirty Years of Scholarship at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis,

Michael D. McGinnis, Introductions to three volumes of Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis [available in books, Workshop webpage, and on e-reserves]

WEEK 2

Monday Colloquium, Jan. 14, 12:00-1:30

Jerome Busemeyer, “What is Quantum Probability Theory, and How Can It Be Used to Analyze Measurements in the Social and Behavioral Sciences?”

Y673 Seminar, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 3:30-5:30

Towards an Alternative Understanding of Governance

Amos Sawyer, Beyond Plunder: Toward Democratic Governance in Liberia, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005.Focus on chapters 1, 3, 5, 9

OPTIONAL FOR SKKU PARTICIPANTS:Dwan, Renata, and Laura Bailey. 2006. “Liberia’s Governance and Economic Management Assistance Programme (GEMAP),” a joint review by the Department of Peacekeeping Operations’ Peacekeeping Best Practices Section and the World Bank’s Fragile States Group, UN and World Bank, May 2006.

OPTIONAL FOR SKKU PARTICIPANTS: Louise Andersen, Bjorn Moller and Finn Stepputat, editors. 2007. Bridging the Security Gap: Fragile States and Insecure People, Part I, pp. 3-43.

Training Session 2. Thursday, Jan. 17, 8:30-10:30

Understanding Polycentric Systems of Self-Governance

Michael D. McGinnis, editor, Polycentricity and Local Public Economies, chapters 1-3,5:

  1. “The Organization of Government in Metropolitan Areas: A Theoretical Inquiry,” Vincent Ostrom, Charles M. Tiebout, and Robert Warren
  2. “Polycentricity” (Part 1), Vincent Ostrom
  3. “Public Goods and Public Choices,” Vincent Ostrom and Elinor Ostrom
  1. “Polycentricity” (Part 2), Vincent Ostrom

Michael D. McGinnis. 2007. “Missing Institutions and Polycentric Governance,” chapter from B. Blomquist, M. Hanisch, and M. McGinnis, eds., Complex Patterns of Governance: Rural Development and Resource Management in the EU, draft book manuscript. [e-reserves]

WEEK 3

No Monday Colloquium, Jan. 21

SKKU PARTICIPANTS should submit a 1-2 page summary of their proposed research interests. These memos should be shared with all SKKU participants as well as Professors McGinnis and Sawyer. Please send these memos to , and .

Y673 Seminar, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 3:30-5:30

Applying Institutional Analysis to DevelopmentAssistance

Clark C. Gibson, Krister Andersson, Elinor Ostrom, Sujai Shivakumar, The Samaritan’s Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid, Oxford University Press, 2005, chapters 1-6, pp. 1-128.

Training Session 3. Thursday, Jan. 24, 8:30-10:30

Using the IAD Framework to Understand Institutions

Elinor Ostrom. 2005. Understanding Institutional Diversity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, with particular emphasis on chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 9.

Lecture by Elinor Ostrom, Friday, Jan. 25, 2:00-3:30

Developing a Framework for Analyzing Complex SESs at Multiple Levels

Jiangu Liu, et al. 2007. “Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems,” Science 317: 1513-1516, Sept. 14, 2007. [e-reserves]

Elinor Ostrom, Marco Janssen, and John Anderies. 2007. “Going Beyond Panaceas.”Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(39):15176–78. [e-reserves]

Elinor Ostrom. 2007. “A Diagnostic Approach for Going Beyond Panaceas.”Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(39):15181–87. [e-reserves]

WEEK 4

Monday Colloquium, Jan. 28, 12:00-1:30

Xavier Basurto Guillermo, Topic TBA (Mini-conference paper entitled “What Does Successful Monitoring Mean in Coupled Socio-Ecological Systems? The Seri Small-Scale Fishery in Northwest Mexico”)

Y673 Seminar, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 3:30-5:30

Dilemmas of Implementation at Home and Abroad

Clark C. Gibson, Krister Andersson, Elinor Ostrom, Sujai Shivakumar, The Samaritan’s Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid, Oxford University Press, 2005, chapters 7-11, pp. 131-234.

Pressman, Jeffrey L., and Aaron B. Wildavsky. 1973. Implementation. Chapters 1, 5, 6, pp. 1-6, 87-146. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Final Training Session, Thursday, Jan. 31, 8:30-10:30

Discussion of Implementation of Institutional Analysis in Particular Contexts

Readings TBA (on topics of interest to SKKU participants)

Note: Readings available on e-reserves can be accessed at The password is implementation. Readings for the SKKU program are collected in the folder marked SKKU Training Materials.

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