Everything about Institutional analysis and development framework

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Institutional analysis and development frameworkA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A computational model of Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development frameworkInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Theories of the Policy ProcessThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Background on the Institutional Analysis and Development FrameworkCited 1,238 times
5. Go sideways: Bloomington schoolA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Elinor OstromA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Background on the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework

  Elinor Ostrom · 2011 · Policy Studies Journal · 1,238 citations

• Institutional Analysis and Ecosystem-Based Management: The Institutional Analysis and Development Framework

  Mark T. Imperial · 1999 · Environmental Management · 258 citations

• Analysing decentralised natural resource governance: proposition for a “politicised” institutional analysis and development framework

  Floriane Clement · 2009 · Policy Sciences · 234 citations

• Laws, norms, and the Institutional Analysis and Development framework

  DANIEL H. COLE · 2017 · Journal of Institutional Economics · 66 citations

• Analyzing and organizing nanotechnology development: Application of the institutional analysis development framework to nanotechnology consortia

  Minna Allarakhia, Steven Walsh · 2012 · Technovation · 59 citations

• The Critical Institutional Analysis and Development (CIAD) Framework

  Luke Whaley · 2018 · International Journal of the Commons · 55 citations

• Policy design and the added-value of the institutional analysis development framework

  Tanya Heikkila, Krister Andersson · 2018 · Policy & Politics · 43 citations

• Understanding decentralized forest governance: an application of the institutional analysis and development framework

  Krister Andersson · 2006 · Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy · 36 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A computational model of Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development framework

  Nieves Montes, Nardine Osman, Carles Sierra · 2022 · Artificial Intelligence · 19 citations

• Illegal firewood collection in Tasmania: Approaching the problem with the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework

  Nizam Abdu, Elena Tinch, Clinton Levitt · 2022 · Land Use Policy · 10 citations

• Climate Policy Reform in Nepal through the Lenses of the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework

  Minna Havukainen, Mirja Mikkilä, Helena Kahiluoto · 2022 · Sustainability · 8 citations

• The institutional analysis and development framework: A mathematical representation in water arena

  Peyman Arjomandi A., Seyedalireza Seyedi, Nadejda Komendantova · 2025 · Current Research in Environmental Sustainability · 5 citations

• Root-Cause Analysis of Water System Failures in Jackson, Mississippi, and Flint, Michigan, Using the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework

  Neil S. Grigg · 2023 · Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities · 5 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Theories of the Policy ProcessPaul A. Sabatier · 1999
• 📕Decision Making HandbookJerry Ramonyai · 2021
• The business of water and sustainable developmentJonathan Chenoweth, Juliet Bird · 2005
• 📕San Francisco Bay area in-depth studyUnited States. Army. Corps of Engineers. San Francisco District · 1973
• OECD economic surveysOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development · 2007
• Institutional microeconomics of developmentTimothy Besley, Rajshri Jayaraman · 2010
• 📕Governance frameworks for public project development and estimationOle Jonny Klakegg · 2009
• 📕Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political EconomyDaniel H. Cole, Michael D. McGinnis · 2014

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