Understanding when institutions change, how institutional innovations are propagated and how institutional evolution occurs, are key theoretical and empirical questions that have long shaped institutional research in economics, sociology, politics, history, geography and other disciplines. In...

The governance of almost all complex social or natural resource systems is polycentric: it involves distributed, nested and partially overlapping patterns of competitive and cooperative relationships among relatively autonomous private and public actors, operating at different levels, within a...

The workshop is a part of the 10th Annual ICSID Conference "Political Economy in a Changing World". Contributions from the fields of political economy, economics and political science are invited. We welcome submissions that adopt theoretical as well as empirical, qualitative as well as...

The rise of new growth poles and the emergence of new global institutional dynamics are challenging the old divide between the developed and developing world. At the same time as a majority of the world population have experienced improved living standards, there seems to be rising popular...

Contributions from any academic discipline or theoretical approach that address the challenges and dynamics of the economic, political, legal and social institutions of our time are welcome. Submissions on other aspects of institutional research are also welcome, with preference to those that...

Conference topics: - Collective actions and public goods - Comparative studies of governance - Social capital, trust, and cultural norms - Human capital and economic development - Political elites and economic performance - History and persistence of economic growth The conference will include...

The workshop is a part of the 7th Annual ICSID Conference “Political Economy of Development: Historical and Contemporary Factors” that will take place at Higher School of Economics in Moscow on June 7-9, 2018. Contributions from the fields of political economy, economics and political...

The conference especially welcomes contributions from any academic discipline that address the challenges and dynamics of the economic, political, legal and social institutions of our time. In addition to the conference theme submissions on any aspect of institutional research are welcome.

The Third WINIR Conference will provide a forum for leading scholars to advance the ongoing conversation about key issues in the growing area of institutional research. Submissions about institutions (or organisations), and/or institutions thought from any discipline or theoretical approach are...