Welcome/Opening Comments

Chancellor Kenneth R. R. Gros Louis, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and University Chancellor, Indiana University Bloomington

Dean Patrick O'Meara, International Programs, and Professor of Political Science and School of Public Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington

8:15-8:30pm

8:30-8:45pm

SPEAKERS (will continue through dinner)

Professor Minoti Chakravarty-Kaul, (Retd.) Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

Professor Barbara Allen, Department of Political Science, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, and Visiting Scholar and Affiliated Faculty, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, IUB

Dr. Tanya Heikkila, Assistant Professor, MPA in Environmental Science and Policy, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York (remarks to be read by Professor Elinor Ostrom, Co-Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis)

Professor Mark Kanazawa, Department of Economics, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota

Crafting Water Constitutions in California

Professor William Blomquist, Department of Political Science, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and Affiliated Faculty, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, IUB

Constitutional Choice and Water Governance in the Western U.S.

Dr. Edella Schlager, Associate Professor, School of Public Administration and Policy, University of Arizona, Tucson

Professor Robert Bish, Professor Emeritus of Public Administration and Economics, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia

Professor Robert Warren, School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, University of Delaware, Newark

Professor Gordon Whitaker, School of Government, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Local Public Economies and Metropolitan Governance: A Research Program Retrospective

Professor Ronald Oakerson, Department of Political Science, Houghton College, New York

Metropolitan Organization and Police

Professor Roger Parks, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Affiliated Faculty, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington

The Political Market for Intergovernmental Cooperation

Professor Kenneth Bickers, Department of Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder

Professor Vernon Greene, Chair, PhD Program in Social Science and Professor of Public Administration, The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, New York

Professor Ellis Perlman, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Michigan-Flint

Truth, Justice, Reconciliation, and Impunity as Historical Themes: Chile, 1814-2006

Professor Brian Loveman, Department of Political Science, San Diego State University, California

From the "Cheyenne Way" to the "Chilean Way": Reflections on Studying Political Science with Vincent Ostrom in the Vietnam Years

     Author's reflections on the above paper was influenced by study with Vincent Ostrom in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Brian Loveman

A Quiet Revolution: Rethinking the Foundations of Human Society

Professor Filippo Sabetti, Department of Political Science, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and Affiliated Faculty, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor Roberta Herzberg, Administrative Director, Institute of Political Economy, Utah State University, Logan

Judge Thomas Stewart, Superior Court (retired), State of Alaska, First Judicial District, Juneau, Alaska, and Visiting Scholar, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor Kenneth Bickers, Department of Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder

The Alaska Constitution: Realizing the Theory of a Compound Republic

Professor Barbara Allen, Department of Political Science, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, and Visiting Scholar and Affiliated Faculty, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington

and

Professor Donald Lutz, Houston, Texas

Relevance of the Theory of a Compound Republic for the European Process of Constitutional Choice

Professor Branko Smerdel, Zagreb Law School, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Public Administration: An Intellectual Crisis or a New Direction?

Professor Mark Sproule-Jones, V.K. Copps Professor of Urban Studies, Department of Political Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and Affiliated Faculty, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington

Dr. Paul Aligica, Senior Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia; Associate Professor National School of Political Sciences and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania; and Affiliated Faculty, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor Elinor Ostrom, Codirector, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington

Dr. Sujai Shivakumar, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, National Research Council, The National Academies, Washington, DC

Polycentricity and Multifunctionality

Professor Markus Hanisch, Institut für Genossenschaftswesen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Rethinking Institutional Analysis--The Continuing Challenge

Professor Hans-Günter Krüsselberg, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

The Man Who Heated Up Economic Discussion with a Stove: Walter Eucken's Challenge to the Social Sciences

Dr. Stephan Kuhnert, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

All panel sessions will take place in the Frangipani Room at the Indiana Memorial Union, Room M051.

Oyebade Kunle Oyerinde, Ph.D. Candidate, Joint Program, Department of Political Science and School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor Amos Sawyer, Codirector, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington

Dr. Susan Wynne, Brookhaven Hospital, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Towards a Local Governance and Poverty Reduction Programme at the African Development Bank

Dr. Claudius Bamidele Olowu, Principal Governance Adviser, Governance Division, Planning, Operations and Programmes Review, African Development Bank, Tunis, Tunisia (remarks to be read by Dr. Shittu Akinola, Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Administration, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria)

Malawi's Lake Chiuta Fisheries: Intelligent Burden Shedding That Favors Renewable Resources Stewardship

Dr. James T. Thomson, Director, Associates in Rural Development, Inc., Burlington, Vermont

Sources of Order and Disorder in Africa: Problems of Conflict and Local Governance

Professor James Wunsch, Chair, Department of Political Science and International Studies, and Director, African Studies Program, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska

Jianxun Wang, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, Indiana University Bloomington

W. Travis Selmier II, FLAS Fellow, Department of Political Science, Indiana University Bloomington

Misconceptions about Constitutional Choice: Constitutional Failure and the Continuing Problem of Social Confrontation in Taiwan

Dr. Tai-Shuenn Yang, Professor and Chairman, Department of Political Science, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan, China

Challenges Facing "State" Building in Burma: Law and Legal Dimension

Dr. Tun Myint, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and School of Law, Indiana University Bloomington

Dr. Marco Janssen, Assistant Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change and Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, and Affiliated Faculty, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington

Dr. Matthew Auer, Associate Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Affiliated Faculty, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington

Constituting a New Order in the European North

Professor Audun Sandberg, Faculty of Social Science, Bodø University College, Norway

Saying No to a European Constitution: Dutch Revolt, Enigma or Pragmatism?

Professor Theo Toonen, Department of Public Administration, Leiden University, The Netherlands 

Constitutional Choices and Post-Communist Transformations

Professor Antoni Kamiński, College of Social Psychology, Institute of Political Studies Polish Academy of Sciences, and Visiting Professor at the Department of Politics and Laporte Visiting Professor at the Center for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, New Jersey

and

Professor Bartlomiej Kamiński, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park

Dr. Sheldon Gellar, Research Associate, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington (remarks to be read by Dr. Anne MacKinnon, Assistant Adjunct Professor, University of Wyoming, Casper)

Salvador Espinosa, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington

Dr. Armando Razo, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, and Affiliated Faculty, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington

Order, Justice, Law and Agreements in a Shrinking World

Dr. Alberto Ortega Venzor, Deputy Chief for International Affaires in the Public Policy Office of the President of México, Vicente Fox, Colonia San Miguel Chapultepec, México 

Legal Pluralism, Polycentricity, and Faith-Based Organizations in Global Governance

Professor Michael McGinnis, Department of Political Science, and Affiliated Faculty, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington

Games Religions Play: A Strategic Forms Assessment of Interreligious Liberative Collective Action Proposals across the Muslim-Christian Divide

Dr. Anas Malik, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio 

Plenary Session (Frangipani Room)

Professor Barbara Allen, Department of Political Science, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, and Visiting Scholar and Affiliated Faculty, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor Filippo Sabetti, Department of Political Science, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and Affiliated Faculty, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington

Development of Civil Society in China

Dr. Li Mei, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

An Institutional Analysis of Intergovernmental Relationships

Professor Mao Shoulong, Director, Department of Public Administration, Renmin University of China, Beijing

Vincent Ostrom's Democratic Administration and New Public Management in East Africa

Dr. Eric E. Otenyo, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff 

Impacts of New Strategies for the Delivery of Education Services on Institutional Arrangements

David O. Porter, Professor, School of Management, Business Administration, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Rethinking American Governance: An Invitation to Dialogue in Honor of Vincent Ostrom

Dr. Donald G. Zauderer, Professor Emeritus, School of Public Affairs, American University, Washington, DC