People
Director:
Aurelian Craiutu (Ph.D. Princeton, 1999),
Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington; also affiliated with the Russian and East European Institute, The WEST European Studies Institute, and the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.
Affiliated:
Vincent Ostrom (Ph.D, UCLA, 1950),
Founding Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.
Most recent publications:
- The Meaning of Democracy and the Vulnerability of Democracies: A Response to Tocqueville’s Challenge. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
- The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration. 3rd ed. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008 [1st ed. 1973; rev. ed., 1974; 2nd ed. 1989].
- The Political Theory of a Compound Republic: Designing the American Experiment. 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008 [1st ed. 1971; 2nd ed. 1987].
Elinor Ostrom (Ph.D, UCLA, 1965),
Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington
Senior Research Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson have won the 2009 Nobel prize for economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday, October 12, 2009. Indiana University's Ostrom and Williamson, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, were awarded the prize for their work in the field of "economic governance," the academy said. Ostrom "has demonstrated how common property can be successfully managed" by associations of users, while Williamson developed a theory regarding how business firms can serve as structure for conflict resolution, the academy said. Ostrom is the first woman to win the prize, which was established in 1968 by the Swedish central bank.
Most recent publications:
- Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice, with Amy R. Poteete and Marco A. Janssen. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2010).
- Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice,edited with Charlotte Hess (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007).
- Linking the Formal and Informal Economy: Concepts and Policies,edited with Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis and Ravi Kanbur (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2006; paperback published in 2007).
- Understanding Institutional Diversity (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005).
Russell Hanson (Ph.D, University of Minnesota, 1982),
Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington
Professor Hanson’s primary interests lie in the area of political philosophy and American politics. He is especially concerned with the historical development of liberalism in the United States, and with the way in which that development affects prospects for democracy. Federalism is a related concern, and Professor Hanson has investigated the political dynamics of social welfare policy in the American states, as well as questions of equity raised by the wide variation in state programs. His current projects include studies of the impact of welfare reform, evolution of American federalism, and 19th century American constitutional thought. Professor Hanson teaches courses on state and local politics in the United States, American political thought, and modern political thought. He is the author of The Democratic Imagination in America (1985), and the co-editor of Political Innovation and Conceptual Change (1989), Reconsidering the Democratic Public (1993), and Politics in the American States (2003).
Barbara Allen (Carleton College),
Professor Allen completed her Ph.D. at Indiana University. She teaches courses in American politics, feminist political theory, politics and the media, and constitutional law. Her broad interests include research related to liberal philosophy, democratic theory, institutional analysis and design, rational choice, and policy and law related to gender and race. Her areas of specialization related to empirical theory and methodology include quantitative methods, political socialization and behavior, public opinion, and theories of learning. Professor Allen writes extensively on applying Tocqueville's theories to contemporary politics and policy. Other publications include her research on Martin Luther King's contributions to American political thought. She is a contributing editor to The Martin Luther King Papers Project at Stanford University and a fellow at the Mondale Policy Forum at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Allen also is a recipient of several grants including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Earhart Foundation fellowships.
