Does it matter for municipal policy which party controls the mayorship in municipal
government? The bulk of the existing evidence says no. But there are a variety of theoretical …

Institutions are strategies, norms, and rules embodied in public policies and/or social
conventions. They reflect and establish expectations about who can do what, where, and …

Scholars have engaged in an ongoing dialogue about the relationships among
management, politics, and law in public administration. Collaborative governance presents …

Since Crawford and Ostrom proposed the Institutional Grammar (IG), a conceptual tool for
breaking down and organizing institutional statements, a burgeoning literature has used it to …

The study of policy design has been of long-standing interest to policy scholars. Recent
surveys of policy design scholarship acknowledge two main pathways along which it has …

Highlights•The Institutional Grammar Tool (IGT) is a method for analyzing and assessing
institutional design.•All research using the IGT as a policy analysis tool has taken place in …

Abstract The Institutional Grammar (IG) is used to analyse the syntactic structure of
statements constituting institutions (eg, policies, regulations, and norms) that indicate …

Although the water management sector is often characterized as resistant to risk and
change, urban areas across the United States are increasingly interested in creating …

Abstract The Institutional Grammar Tool (IGT) is an important and relatively recent innovation
in policy theory and analysis. It is conceptualized to empirically operationalize the insights of …

Efforts to achieve sustainability are transforming the norms, rules and values that affect the
remediation of contaminated environments. This is altering the ways in which remediation …