ORGANIZATION
The Ostrom Workshop
The Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, founded by Elinor and Vincent Ostrom in 1973 — the institutional home of polycentric governance research and the ongoing center for extending Ostrom's framework to digital, knowledge, and now intelligence commons.
The Ostrom Workshop, formally the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, was founded at Indiana University in 1973 and has served for over fifty years as the institutional base for the research program that culminated in Elinor Ostrom's 2009 Nobel Prize. The Workshop's distinctive method — comparative institutional analysis grounded in extensive fieldwork — produced the empirical database from which the eight design principles emerged and continues to generate the theoretical advances that extend the framework to new domains.
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The Workshop's post-Ostrom research has focused substantially on knowledge commons and data commons, extending the IAD framework to digital resources. Its research on nested governance of digital commons — including AI training data and algorithmic decision systems — has found that the most significant governance breakdowns occur not within any single level of governance but at the interfaces