Workshop

The Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University combines teaching, research, and related activities where faculty, visiting scholars, and students participate in productive scholarship related to institutional analysis and design. The term "workshop" is used to emphasize a conviction that research skills are best acquired where students, working as apprentices and journeymen, participate with experienced scholars in the organization and conduct of research. Co-founded by Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom as a research enterprise within the Department of Political Science in 1973, the Workshop became an official research center on the Bloomington campus at Indiana University in 1975. Today, the Workshop is home to an extensive interdisciplinary research agenda and affiliated faculty in Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Political Science, Psychology, the Kelley School of Business, School of Informatics, School of Law, and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Many of our affiliated faculty are co-investigators with the IELab.