Professor Emeritus, Political Science, and

Senior Research Fellow Emeritus, Ostrom Workshop, 

Indiana University, Bloomington

Curriculum Vitae, October  2020

[pdf]

Updated Guide to IAD and the Language of the Ostrom Workshop

How to Use the IAD Framework; Applied Guide

Ostrom Workshop Colloquium materials Sept 14, 2020 -- paper   slides

Handout for IASC Workshop March 2020

Academic Positions

• College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Associate Dean for Social and Historical Sciences and Graduate Education, 2016-2019

  Department of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington

• Chair, 2015-2016
• Emeritus Professor, 2019-present
• Professor, 2003-2019,
• Associate Professor, 1991-2003
• Assistant Professor, 1985-1991

• The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, IU, Bloomington

• Affiliated Faculty 1990-present
• Senior Research Fellow, 2013-present
• Director, 2010 - 2012, Co-Director, 2003-05, 2009-10, Associate Director, 1997-2003
• Chair, Workshop Advisory Council, 2007-08
• Member, Workshop Advisory Council, 2019-present

• Adjunct Positions and Other Affiliations

  • Adjunct Professor, Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), IU, Bloomington, IN, Governance and Management Faculty Group, 2010-2019

  • Affiliated Facutly, Department of International Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, December 2016-present

  • Senior Research Fellow, 2010-13, ReThink Health initiative, The Fannie E. Rippel Foundation

  • Affiliated Faculty, Center on American and Global Security, School of Global and International Studies, 2014-2016

  • Affiliated Faculty, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, 2010-2019

• Visiting Scholar Positions

  • Visiting Faculty, The Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, The Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, January-June 2013
  • Visiting Fellow, The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Fall 2005 - Spring 2006
  • Gastwissenschaftler (Visiting Scholar), Division of Resource Economics, Humboldt University, Berlin, November-December 2004

Education

• Ph.D., Political Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, August 1985

• Dissertation Title: Arms, Aid, and Allies: A Formal Model of the Security Policies of Regional Powers  [abstract]
• Dissertation Co-Advisors: John H. Aldrich and Brian L. Job
• Fields of specialization: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Methods and Methodology

• B.S., Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, June 1980

• Cum Laude, With Honors in the Liberal Arts, Phi Beta Kappa
• Political Science Minor

• Associate's Degree., Electronics Engineering Technology, Indiana Technical Institute, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1976

RESEARCH

• Books
• Articles in Refereed Journals
• Chapters in Edited Volumes
• Other Publications
• Working Papers
• Translations
• Abstracts
• External Research Grants

Books

• Daniel Cole and Michael D. McGinnis, eds. Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy, (4 volumes). Lexington Books. [Introductions to Compendium and all volumes]
  • Volume 1: Polycentricity in Public Administration and Political Science, 2015 [Editors' Introductions to Compendium and Vol. 1]
  • Volume 2: Resource Governance, 2015 [Editors' Introduction to Vol. 2]
  • Volume 3: A Framework for Policy Analysis. 2017. [Editors' Introduction to Vol. 3]
  • Volume 4: Policy Applications and Extensions. 2018. [Editors' Introduction to Vol 4]
• Michael D. McGinnis, editor of three volumes subtitled Readings form the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, University of Michigan Press. [Editor's Introductions to all three volumes]
  • Polycentric Governance and Development, 1999.
  • Polycentricity and Local Public Economies, 1999.
  • Polycentric Games and Institutions, 2000.
• Michael D. McGinnis and John T. Williams, Compound Dilemmas: Democracy, Collective Action, and Superpower Rivalry, University of Michigan Press, 2001. [Introduction] 

• Daniel H. Cole, Graham Epstein, and Michael D. McGinnis. 2019. “Combining the IAD and SES Frameworks,” International Journal of the Commons, Vol. 13, No. 1 (2019), pp. 244-275. https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/10.18352/ijc.864/
• Michael Hendryx, Lucia Guerra-Reyes, Benjamin D Holland, Michael Dean McGinnis, Emily Meanwell, Susan E Middlestadt,and Karen M Yoder. 2017.  “A county-level cross-sectional analysis of positive deviance to assess multiple population health outcomes in Indiana,” BMJ Open 2017; 7:e017370. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017370.
• Daniel H. Cole, Graham Epstein, and Michael D. McGinnis. 2014. "Digging Deeper into Hardin’s Pasture: The Complex Institutional Structure of ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’," Journal of Institutional Economics, September 2014, 10(3): 353-369. Awarded 2015 Elinor Ostrom Prize for the best full-length article published during the previous year in the Journal of Institutional Economics.
• Michael D. McGinnis and Elinor Ostrom. 2014. "Social-ecological system framework: initial changes and continuing challenges." Ecology and Society 19 (2): 30. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss2/art30/.
• Michael D. McGinnis and Elinor Ostrom. 2012. "Reflections on Vincent Ostrom, Public Administration, and Polycentricity," Public Administration Review. 72:1 (January/February), 15-25. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02488.x
• Michael D. McGinnis. 2011. “Networks of Adjacent Action Situations in Polycentric Governance,” Policy Studies Journal 39 (1) (Feb. 2011), 45-72. [draft]
• Michael D. McGinnis. 2011. “An Introduction to IAD and the Language of the Ostrom Workshop: A Simple Guide to a Complex Framework,” Policy Studies Journal 39 (1) (Feb. 2011), 163-177. [longer web version].
• Michael D. McGinnis and James M. Walker. 2010. "Foundations of the Ostrom Workshop: Institutional Analysis, Polycentricity, and Self-Governance of the Commons," Public Choice, 143, Numbers 3-4 (June), 293-301. [external link]
• Michael D. McGinnis. 2007. "From Self-Reliant Churches to Self-Governing Communities: Comparing the Indigenisation of Christianity and Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa," Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 20, 3, (Sept. 2007), 401-416. [paper]
• Michael D. McGinnis. 2000. "Policy Substitutability in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: A Model of Individual Choice and International Response," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 44, No. 1, (February 2000), pp. 62-89. [Abstract] [link; JSTOR]
• John T. Williams, Michael D. McGinnis, and John C. Thomas, "Breaking the War-Economy Link," International Interactions, 1994, 20 (3), 169-188. [Abstract]
• Michael D. McGinnis and John T. Williams, "Policy Uncertainty and Two-Level Games: Examples of Correlated Equilibria," International Studies Quarterly, March 1993, 37:1, 29-54. [Abstract] [link; JSTOR]
• John T. Williams and Michael D. McGinnis, "The Dimension of Superpower Rivalry: A Dynamic Factor Analysis," Journal of Conflict Resolution, March 1992, 36:1, 86-118. [Abstract] [JSTOR]
• Michael D. McGinnis, "Richardson, Rationality, and Restrictive Models of Arms Races," Journal of Conflict Resolution, September 1991, 35:3, 443-473. [Abstract] [JSTOR]
• Michael D. McGinnis, "Limits to Cooperation: Iterated Graduated Games and the Arms Race," International Interactions, 1991, 16:4, 271-293. [Abstract]
• Michael D. McGinnis, "A Rational Model of Regional Rivalry," International Studies Quarterly, March 1990, 34:1, 111-135. [Abstract] [JSTOR]
• Michael D. McGinnis and John T. Williams, "Change and Stability in Superpower Rivalry," American Political Science Review, December 1989, 83:4, 1101-1123. [Abstract] [JSTOR]
• John H. Aldrich and Michael D. McGinnis, "A Model of Party Constraints on Optimal Candidate Positions," Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 1989, 12:4/5, 437-450. [Abstract] [link]
• John T. Williams and Michael D. McGinnis, "Sophisticated Reaction in the U.S.-Soviet Arms Race: Evidence of Rational Expectations," American Journal of Political Science, November 1988, 32:4, 968-995. [Abstract] [link; JSTOR]
• Michael D. McGinnis, "Issue Linkage and the Evolution of International Cooperation," Journal of Conflict Resolution, March 1986, 30:1, 141-170. [Abstract] [link; JSTOR]

Chapters in Edited Volumes

• Michael D. McGinnis. 2019. “New Institutional Economics.” To appear in Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School: Building a New Approach to Policy and the Social Sciences, edited by Jayme Lemke and Vlad Tarko, under contract with Agenda Publishing, with North American marketing and distribution through Columbia University Press. [draft]
• Mark Stephan, Graham Marshall, and Michael McGinnis. 2019. “An Introduction to Polycentricity and Governance.” In Andreas Thiel, William Blomquist, and Dustin Garrick, eds. Governing Complexity., chap. 1, pp. 21-44. New York: Cambridge University Press. [draft]
• Michael D. McGinnis. 2019. “Beyond a Precarious Balance: Improving the Scientific Rigor and Policy Relevance of Institutional Analyses from the Bloomington School.” In Ostrom’s Tensions: Reexamining the Political Economy and Public Policy of Elinor C. Ostrom, eds. Roberta Q. Herzberg, Peter J. Boettke, and Paul Dragos Aligica, Arlington, VA: Mercatus Center at George Mason University, chap. 1, 19-72. [draft] 
• Michael D. McGinnis. 2019. “Connecting Commons to the IAD Framework.” In Blake Hudson, Jonathan Rosenbloom, and Dan Cole, eds., Routledge Handbook of the Study of the Commons, Routledge, chap. 5, 50-62. [draft]
• Michael D. McGinnis. 2018. “Commons, Institutional Diversity, and Polycentric Governance in US Health Policy,” chapter 11 in Daniel Cole and Michael D. McGinnis, eds. Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy, Volume 4: Policy Applications and Extensions,  Lexington, chap. 11, pp. 279-308. [page proofs]
• Michael D. McGinnis. 2017. "The IAD Framework in Action: Understanding the Source of the Design Principles in Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons," in Daniel Cole and Michael D. McGinnis, eds. Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy, Volume 3: A Framework for Policy Analysis, Lexington, 87-108. [draft]
• Michael D. McGinnis and Paul Dragos Aligica. 2013. "Institutional Analysis and Political Economy," In Routledge Handbook of Public Policy edited by Eduardo Araral Jr., Scott Fritzen, Michael Howlett, M Ramesh and Xun Wu, New York: Routledge, chap. 4, pp. 87-97.
• Michael McGinnis and Vincent Ostrom.  2012. "Democratic Transformations: From the Struggle for Democracy to Self-Governance?," In The Quest to Understand Human Affairs: Essays on Collective, Constitutional, and Epistemic Choice, vol. 2. Edited by Barbara Allen. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, pp. 501-532. [draft]
• Michael D. McGinnis. 2011. "Elinor Ostrom: Politics as Problem-Solving in Polycentric Settings," in Donatella Campus, Gianfranco Pasquino, and Martin Bull, eds., Maestri of Political Science, volume 2, Colchester, UK: ECPR Press, 137-158. [draft]
• Michael D. McGinnis. 2008. "Legal Pluralism, Polycentricity, and Faith-Based Organizations in Global Governance," in Mark Sproule-Jones, Barbara Allen, and Filippo Sabetti, eds. The Struggle to Constitute and Sustain Productive Orders. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, pp. 45-64. [draft]
• Michael McGinnis and Elinor Ostrom. 2008. "Will Lessons from Small-Scale Social Dilemmas Scale Up?" chapter to be included in New Issues and Paradigms in Research on Social Dilemmas, edited by Anders Biel, Daniel Eck, Tommy Gärling, and Mathias Gustafsson, New York: Springer-Verlag, 2008, pp. 189-211.
• Michael D. McGinnis. 2002. "Enhancing Institutional Diversity in a Globalizing World," in Gobernabilidad: Nuevos Actores, Neuvos Desafíos, edición, coordinación y compilación: Alberto Ortega Venzor, Carlos Alberton Martínez Castillo, Vanessa Zárate, Memorias 2002 IBERGOP-Mexico, Vol. II, Mexico: Editorial Porrúa, 2002, pp. 639-657. [paper]
• Michael McGinnis, "Rent-Seeking, Redistribution, and Reform in the Governance of Global Markets," in Globalization and Governance, edited by Jeffrey Hart and Aseem Prakash. London and New York: Routledge Press, 1999, 54-76. [Abstract]
• Michael McGinnis and Elinor Ostrom, "Design Principles for Local and Global Commons," in The International Political Economy and International Institutions, Oran Young, ed., Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1996, Vol. II, pp. 464-493. [reprint of paper from Linking Local and Global Commons, Robert Keohane, ed., Proceedings of a Conference held at Harvard Center for International Affairs, April 1992, pp. 16-65.] [Abstract]
• Michael D. McGinnis, "Rational Choice and Foreign Policy Change: The Arms and Alignments of Regional Powers," in Foreign Policy Restructuring: How Governments Respond to Global Change, edited by Jerel A. Rosati, Joe D. Hagan, and Martin W. Sampson III, Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1994, pp. 65-87. [Abstract]
• John T. Williams and Michael D. McGinnis, "Expectations and the Dynamics of U.S. Defense Budgets: A Critique of Organizational Reaction Models," in The Political Economy of Military Spending in the United States, edited by Alex Mintz, pp. 282-304. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. [Abstract]

• Michael D. McGinnis and William Blomquist. 2013. "Reflections on the Ostroms’ Contributions to the Social Sciences," Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences: Vol. 16: Iss. 1, Article 4. http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jiass/vol16/iss1/4. Keynote Address from the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, 2012.

• Michael D. McGinnis. 2010. “Religion Policy and the Faith-Based Initiative: Navigating the Shifting Boundaries between Church and State,” Forum on Public Policy, Vol 2010, No. 4/5. (December 2010) http://forumonpublicpolicy.com/Vol2010.no4/archive.vol2010.no4/mcginnis.pdf (accessed January 4, 2011); Reprinted in Journal of Academic Perspectives, 2011, no. 3, http://www.journalofacademicperspectives.com/back-issues/vol-2011/no-3/

• Michael McGinnis. 2005. "Beyond Individualism and Spontaneity: Comments on Peter Boettke and Christopher Coyne," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, June 2005, 57 (2), pp. 167-172.

• Michael McGinnis, "Elinor Ostrom: A Career in Institutional Analysis," PS: Political Science & Politics, December 1996, 29 (4), 737-741. [JSTOR]

• Michael McGinnis and Elinor Ostrom, "Institutional Analysis and Global Climate Change: Design Principles for Robust International Regimes," pp. 45-85 in Marian Rice, Joel Snow, and Harold Jacobson, eds. Global Climate Change: Social and Economic Research Issues, Proceedings of a Conference held at Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Feb. 1992. [Abstract]

• Michael D. McGinnis, "Bridging or Broadening the Gap? A Comment on Wagner's 'Rationality and Misperception in Deterrence Theory'," Journal of Theoretical Politics, 1992, 4(4), 443-457. [Abstract]

Working Papers and Presentations 

• Institutional Analysis
  • Michael D. McGinnis, Elizabeth B. Baldwin, and Andreas Thiel,"When Is Polycentric Governance Sustainable? Using Institutional Theory to Identify Endogenous Drivers of Dysfunctional Dynamics,” Presentation at the Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University, Bloomington, Sept. 14, 2020. -- paper   slides
  • McGinnis, Michael D. 2016. “Polycentricity in Global Governance: A Question of Constitutional Fit?,” Invited Presentation in the Duck Family Colloquium Series, Center for Environmental Politics, University of Washington, Seattle, March 4, 2016 [presentation]
  • McGinnis, Michael D. 2015.“Polycentric Governance in Theory and Practice: Dimensions of Aspirations and Practical Limitations,” prepared for Polycentricity Workshop, Ostrom Workshop, IU Bloomington, Dec. 14-17, 2015. [paper]
  • Cole, Daniel H. and Epstein, Graham and McGinnis, Michael D., 2015. “Toward a New Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems (NIASES): Combining Elinor Ostrom's IAD and SES Frameworks” (September 2, 2014). Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 299. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2490999
  • McGinnis, Michael D. 2015. “Understanding the Institutional Repertoire Required for Effective and Sustainable Polycentric Governance,” Discussion paper prepared for Working Group on Institutions, Behavior and Policy Outcomes, Workshop: Advancing Theoretical and Methodological Approaches for the Study of Compliance, School of Public Affairs, San Diego State University, June 4-5, 2015 [paper; presentation]
  • McGinnis, Michael D. 2015. "Recognizing Varieties of Polycentric Governance: Can We Develop More Precise Definitions and Distinctions?," paper prepared for discussion at Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, April 9, 2015.
  • McGinnis, Michael D. 2015. "General Theory of Federalism: What the Ostroms Can Teach Us about How State Attorneys General Can Continue to Contribute to Polycentric Governance," Remarks at Midwest Regional Meeting of the National Association of State Attorneys General, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 31-April 1, 2015
  • McGinnis, Michael D., Costs and Challenges of Polycentric Governance: An Equilibrium Concept and Examples from U.S. Health Care (May 2, 2011). Working Paper W11-3, The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2206980 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2206980. Originally prepared for presentation at Conference on Self-Governance, Polycentricity, and Development, Renmin University of China, Beijing, May 8, 2011. [pdf; presentation]
  • Michael D. McGinnis, "Building a Program for Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems:A Review of Revisions to the SES Framework," Working Paper, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University. [pdf] NOTE: This material has been incorporated into McGinnis and Ostrom, "SES Framework: Initial Changes and Continuing Challenges"
  • Michael D. McGinnis. "Dynamic Information Flows and Sustainability: A Specialized Extension of the SES Framework," Working Paper, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University. [pdf]
  • Michael D. McGinnis, "Institutional Analysis, Game Models, and Polycentric Governance: Contextualizing IAD via Networks of Adjacent Action Situations," Prepared for discussion at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Sept. 2-5, 2010, Washington, D.C., in Theme Panel: Institutional Analysis and Development: Development and Promise; revised version of a paper presented at the Institutional Analysis and Development Symposium, School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado Denver, April 9-10, 2010.  [pdf]
  • Michael D. McGinnis, “Institutional Analysis as a Foundation for Multi-Tier Game Models,”  paper for conference in Denver April 9-10, 2010  [presentation]
  • Elinor Ostrom and Michael D. McGinnis, “Dynamic Analysis of Action Situations in Social-Ecological Systems,” paper for May 2010 conference in Delft,  [presentation;]
  • Michael McGinnis, "Costs and Challenges of Polycentric Governance," working paper, revised Feb. 2011. NOTE: Much of this paper has been incorporated in "Costs and Challenges of Polycentric Governance: An Equilibrium Concept and Examples from U.S. Health Care.”
     
• Managing the Health Commons and Healthcare Policy
  • Managing the Health Commons [webpage]

  • "Commons as Building Blocks for Polycentric Governance: Lessons from U.S. Health Reform," Keynote Address, 2nd Thematic Conference on Knowledge Commons: Governing Pooled Knowledge Commons, with Special Attention to Fields of Medicine and the Environment, International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), New York University (NYU) School of Law, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, Sept. 4, 2014 [presentation slides]

  • "Rethinking Health Care and Corporate Governance," presented at 2014 Summer Institute for Informed Patient Choice (SIIPC), The Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science, and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 25-27, 2014  [powerpoint slides; edited remarks]

  • Joan Pong Linton and Michael Dean McGinnis, with Carrie Ann Lawrence. 2014. "Health Commoning: Confronting the Polycentric Challenge in Bloomington, Indiana," Spring 2014 Mini-Conference, The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, May 5, 2014. [pdf]

  • "How is an Operating Room Like a Commons?," presentation for the Quarterly All Hands Meeting, IU Methodist OR Team, Petticrew Auditorium, March 26, 2014 [powerpoint pdf]

  •  Instructor, ReThinking Health: Leadership Essentials in a Changing System, ReThink Health, April 3-May 23, 2013. Primary instructor for Module 5: “Fostering Stewardship by Caring for the Commons”

  • "Local Governance of Healthcare: A Missing Ingredient for Reform," draft paper, Oct. 2013. (revised version of Caring for the Health Commons)

  • "Caring for the Health Commons: What It Is and Who's Responsible For It," Working Paper W13-5, The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, Feb. 20 2013.

  • "Overview of Sabbatical Activities," May 28, 2013

  • "The Grand Junction Healthcare System: A Model for the Nation, In Our Own Backyard," Handout for presentation to Colorado Healthcare Strategy and Management breakfast meeting, May 17, 2013.

  • "Health Care Policy & the Bloomington School of Institutional Analysis: Opportunities and Challenges of a Regional Approach to Reform," Presentation at Mercatus Center, George Mason University, April 24, 2013

  • "Shared Stewardship of a Health Commons: Lessons from the Managing the Health Commons Research Project," my portion of webinar "Leading Sustainable Cost Change: Shared Stewardship of a Health Commons," Michael McGinnis, Steve ErkenBrack, and Jeff Kuhr, sponsored by Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP), Oct. 16, 2012

  • Michael D. McGinnis and Claudia A. Brink. "Shared Stewardship of a Health Commons: Examples and Opportunities from Grand Junction, Colorado," A White Paper Prepared for the Alliance of Community Health Plans (http://www.achp.org/). Working Paper W12-14, The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington.
  • "Towards Local Stewardship of a Health Commons," Presentation for Organizing for Health Distance Learning Class, March 22, 2012.
  • "Shared Stewardship of a Health Commons," Presentation for ReThink Health: Leading & Collaborating for Change Mini-Course, Dec. 5, 2011, at the 23rd Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) December 4-7, 2011, Orlando, Florida. [longer version of slides]
  • Collaborative Stewardship of a Health Commons, Presentation prepared for American Public Health Association meeting, Nov. 2, 2011, but not presented in person
  • Webinar on Managing the Health Commons: An Interim Report, Oct. 21, 2011 [pdf version]; Condensed version updated Nov. 21 [pdf]
  • Health as a Commons: Talking Points
  • Project Planning Document, May 2011 [pdf]
  • McGinnis, Michael D., Costs and Challenges of Polycentric Governance: An Equilibrium Concept and Examples from U.S. Health Care (May 2, 2011). Working Paper W11-3, The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2206980 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2206980. Originally prepared for presentation at Conference on Self-Governance, Polycentricity, and Development, Renmin University of China, Beijing, May 8, 2011. [pdf; presentation]
     
• Religion and Public Policy
  • "Religion Policy and Faith-Based Organizations: Charting the Shifting Boundaries between Church and State," presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of ASREC, Association for the Study of Religion, Economics & Culture, Arlington, Virginia, April 7-10, 2011. [paper; presentation]. Revised version of paper presented at Oxford Round Table on Religion and Science: Shaping the Modern World, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, England, July 25-30, 2010. [paper; original presentation]
  • "Comparative Religion Policy: Understanding Patterns of Religious Participation in Policy Networks and the Political Manipulation of Religious Organizations, " paper presented at annual meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA), San Francisco, California, March 26-30, 2008. [paper, presentation]
  • "The Political Manipulation of Religion and Its Limits: How Faith-Based Service Organizations Fit Into Policy Networks," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture (ASREC) and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR), Tampa, Florida, November 1-4, 2007 [paper, presentation]
  • "Narratives of Strategic Interaction Involving Religious Organizations: Proselytism, Humanitarian Aid, and International Conflict," at the 48^th Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, Feb. 28-March 3, 2007. [pdf]
  • "Proselytism Games and Humanitarian Aid," presented at (1) the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture (ASREC) and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR), Portland, Oregon, October 19-21, 2006 and (2) the 2006 North American Meeting of the Peace Science Society (International), Columbus, Ohio, November 10-12, 2006.
  • "Partners, Partisans, Proselytizers: Games Played by International Faith-Based Organizations," paper presented at the 64th Annual National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 20-23, 2006.
  • "Strategizing for the Lord and for Self-Governance: What IGOs and NGOs Can Learn from the Missionary Experience of the Indigenization of African Christianity," 47th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, San Diego, California, March 22-25, 2006 and at a conference on “Designing Constitutional Arrangements for Democratic Governance in Africa: Challenges and Possibilities,” Indiana University, Bloomington, March 30-31, 2006. [pdf]
  • "Rebellion, Religion, and Rational Choice Institutionalism: Towards an Integrated Framework for Analysis," Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2005.

• Other Papers Related to the Ostrom Workshop
  • Web Version of IAD Guide
  • How to Use the IAD Framework
  • "Building Networks of Action Situations for the Analysis of Policy Processes and Institutions," presentation at Networks and Complex Systems Colloquium Series, IU Bloomington, Feb. 14, 2011.  [presentation slides]
  • Michael D. McGinnis, "An Introduction to IAD and the Language of the Ostrom Workshop: A Simple Guide to a Complex Framework for the Analysis of Institutions and their Development," paper for conference in Denver April 9-10, 2010 and Aug. 2010 American Political Science Association meeting. [pdf]

Course-Related Working Papers

• Other Papers and Presentations
  • "Faith-Based Initiatives in the Bush and Obama Administrations," IU Mini-University, June 25, 2009.
  • "Evaluating Humanitarian Response to Conflict and Famines," DePauw University, November 14, 2005.
  • Selected chapters from unpublished manuscript, "Managing Conflict Policy: Exploring Strategic Complementarity in the Horn of Africa," Aug. 2006 [draft]
  • "Improving Global Response to Regional Conflict: Applying Network Governance to Conflict Policy," The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, October 3, 2005
  • "Faith-Based Multi-Functionality and Public Policy: An Initial Research Agenda," Colloquium on Environmental and Resource Economics, Humboldt University, Berlin, November 23, 2004 [paper; presentation].

  • "Conflict, Religion, and Institutional Analysis: A Research Agenda in Transition," Purdue University, November 3, 2004.

• Earlier Papers
  • Michael McGinnis, "Missing Institutions and Polycentric Governance," draft 2006, [draft]
  • Markus Hanisch and Michael D. McGinnis, "Analyzing Problems of Polycentric Governance in the Growing EU," Introduction to Workshop on Analyzing Problems of Polycentric Governance in the Growing EU, Humboldt University, Berlin, June 16-17, 2005. [paper;]
  • "Who Negotiates and to What Effect When Parties are Trapped in a Multi-Phase Equilibrium of a Multi-Track Regional Conflict System?" Prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Peace Science Society, Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 13-16, 2003. [paper; figures; power point presentation]
  • "Arms, Aid and Illicit Trade as Inputs to Rebellion: Some Implications of Substitutability in Rebel Organizations," presented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, August 28-September 1, 2002. [Abstract] [paper]
  • "An Institutional Approach to Substitutability in Rebellions," presentation (no paper), Conference on Foreign Policy Substitutability, Penn State University, June 21-22, 2002. [power point presentation]
  • "Reciprocal Destabilization: A Two-Level Security Dilemma Involving Rebellions, Refugees, and Regional Conflict," presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, February 21-24, 2001. [Abstract] [pdf version]
  • "Conflict Dynamics in a Three-Level Game: Local, National, and International Conflict in the Horn of Africa," Thirty-Third North American Meeting of the Peace Science Society (International), The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 8-10, 1999. [Abstract]
  • Michael McGinnis and Vincent Ostrom, "Democratic Transformations: From the Struggle for Democracy to Self-Governance?," Paper discussed at the 25^th Anniversary 2^nd Workshop on the Workshop, Indiana University, June 10-12, 1999.  [paper] Reprinted in The Quest to Understand Human Affairs: Essays on Collective, Constitutional, and Epistemic Choice, vol. 2. Edited by Barbara Allen. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, pp.501-532
  • "Institutional Analysis and the Future of the Workshop: Toward a Tocquevillean Synthesis of the Policy Sciences?," Opening Plenary Session, 25^th Anniversary 2^nd Workshop on the Workshop, Indiana University, June 10-12, 1999. [Abstract]
  • Michael McGinnis, "NGO Response to Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: A Preliminary Analysis," paper presented at the Thirty-First North American Meeting of the Peace Science Society (International), Indianapolis, Indiana, November 20-23, 1997. [Abstract] [Word version]

Translations

• Michael McGinnis and Vincent Ostrom. 1999. "Democratic Transformations: From the Struggle for Democracy to Self-Governance?," (in Chinese). Trans. by Mao Shoulong. Published in Journal of Beijing Administrative College, Vol. 3, 2001 (in two parts). [English version]
• McGinnis, Michael, ed. 2000. Polycentric Governance and Development: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis (in Chinese). Trans. by Wang Wenzhang and Mao Shoulong. Shanghai, China: Shanghai Joint Publishing Corporation.
• McGinnis, Michael, ed. 2000. Polycentricity and Local Public Economies: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis (in Chinese). Trans. by Mao Shoulong and Li Mei. Shanghai, China: Shanghai Joint Publishing Corporation.

External Research Grants

• Co-Principal Investigator, proposal for a National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center (STC) on Governance and Sustainability on Social-Ecological Systems (COGS) , Indiana University, under review.

• Principal Investigator, “Managing the Health Commons,” funded by Fannie E. Rippel Foundation, January 2011-December 2012

• Co-Principal Investigator, “Expectational Models of U.S.-Soviet Rivalry,” National Science Foundation, 1988-91

TEACHING

• Recent Courses
• Undergraduate Courses
• Course Policies
• Graduate Seminars
• Reading List on IR Theory
• Religion and Politics: A Selection of Views
• Course-Related Working Papers

• U.S. Health Care Policy
  • Political Science Y490: Undergraduate Seminar: Controversies in Health Politics and Policy [Spring 2016]
  • Political Science Y394: Public Policy Analysis: Coping With ObamaCare [Spring 2015]
  • Political Science Y200 [Spring 2014, Spring 2012]
• Analyzing Politics -- Political Science Y205 [Spring 2016]
• Introduction to Theories of Public Policy -- Political Science Y565 / SPEAV690 [ Fall 2014; Fall 2013, Fall 2011; Fall 2009 ]
• Institutional Analysis and Development -- Political Science Y673 [ Fall 2014; Fall 2013 ]
  • Sustainable Governance in the Ostrom Tradition -- Political Science Y394: Public Policy Analysis  [Fall 2010]
• Democracy and National Security, Political Science Y311 [ Spring 2015; Spring 2014 ]
• Religion, Politics, and Public Policy, Political Science Y249 [Spring 2011; Spring 2009]

Undergraduate Courses

Interdisciplinary and College of Arts and Sciences Courses

• International Studies I206: Nations, States, and Boundaries [Spring 2004]
• Coping With War 
  • S104: College of Arts and Sciences Freshman Seminar [Fall 2003, syllabus; other course materials]
  • E104: College of Arts and Sciences Topics Curriculum [Fall 2000] [Fall 1999]

Introductory Survey Courses and Specialized Topics in Political Science

• Introduction to World Politics -- Y109  [Spring 1990]  [Fall 1986]  [Spring 1986]
• Contemporary Political Problems -- Y200 Topics:
  • U.S. Health Care Policy -- Political Science Y394: Coping With ObamaCare [Spring 2015]; Y200 [Spring 2014, Spring 2012]
  • Religion and Ethnic Nationalism in World Politics [Spring 1994]
  • A New World Order? [Fall 1992]
  • Arms Control [Fall 1988] [Spring 1988]
  • U.S. and Vietnam  [Summer 1987]

Courses in U.S. Health Policy

• Political Science Y394: Coping With ObamaCare [Spring 2015];
• Topics: Y200 [Spring 2014, Spring 2012]

Courses in International Politics and Foreign Policy 

• Democracy and National Security -- Y311  [ Spring 2015; Spring 2014] [Fall 2000] [Fall 1999] [Spring 1996-1998]
• International Law -- Y367  [Spring 2001]   [Spring 2000]
• Contemporary Theories of International Politics -- Y361  [Spring 1994]
• Comparative Foreign Policy -- Y363 [Spring 1987]
• War and International Conflict -- Y375  [Summer 1988] [Fall 1987]

Courses in Institutional Analysis and Research Methods 

• Institutional Analysis and Governance -- Y204 
  • Policy Networks and Implementation  [Fall 2008]
  • Religion, Rationality, and Public Policy [Spring 2007; Spring 2005]
  • Organizing for Rebellion and for Peace  [Spring 2003]
  • Politics as Collective Action   [Spring 1995]  [Fall 1992-1993]
• Elements of Political Analysis -- Y205  [Spring 1987]  [Fall 1985]
• Analysis of International Politics -- Y372  [Spring 1988] [Spring 1986]
• Political Decision Making -- Y391   [Fall 2001]  [Spring 1998]
• Public Policy Analysis -- Y394 
  • Sustainable Governance in the Ostrom Tradition  [Fall 2010]

Undergraduate Seminars

• Honors Seminar -- Y210 
  • Religion and World Politics [Spring 1995]
• Senior Seminar -- Topics:
  • Global Politics of Christian Evangelism, Senior Seminar Y490 [Spring 2007]
  • Contemporary Theories of International Politics  [Y396: Spring 1994 with Y361]
  • Information, Institutions, and International Order [Y396: Fall 1990]
  • Nuclear Games: The Theory and Practice of Deterrence [Y396: Spring 1990]
  • International Negotiations and Theories of Bargaining [Y396: Fall 1985]

Courses Related to Religion and Politics

• Y249: Religion, Politics, and Public Policy [Spring 2011; Spring 2009; Spring 2008; Fall 2006]
• Y204: Religion, Rationality, and Public Policy [Spring 2007; Spring 2005 syllabus; other course materials]
• Y490: Global Politics of Christian Evangelism, Senior Seminar [Spring 2007]
• Y200: Religion and Ethnic Nationalism in World Politics [Spring 1994]
• Y210: Religion and World Politics [Spring 1995]

Graduate Seminars

Methods of Political Science Research

• Introduction to the Study of Politics -- Y570 [Spring 2010] [Fall 1997] [Fall 1993-1996]
• Introduction to Formal Theory -- Y573 [Spring 2004]
• Political Data Analysis I -- Y575  [Fall 1996] [Fall 1988-1989]
• Research Methods in Political Science -- Y580  [Fall 2008] [Fall 2007] [Spring 1987 with Y205]

International Relations

• International Relations: Approaches and Issues
  • Y569  [Fall 2002] [Fall 1997] [Fall 1995] [Fall 1989]
  • Y669  [Fall 1987] [Fall 1986]
• Topics in International Relations -- Y669
  • Democracy and World Politics [Spring 1997]
  • War, Democracy, and Capitalism [Fall 1994]
  • International Order and Domestic Politics [Spring 1993]
  • Formal Models: IR Game Theory [Spring 1991]

Institutional Analysis and Public Policy

• Introduction to Theories of Public Policy -- Political Science Y565 / SPEAV690 [Fall 2014; Fall 2013; Fall 2011, Fall 2009, Fall 2007, Fall 2006]
• Institutional Analysis and Development -- Y673 (Empirical Theory and Methodology)
  • Introduction to the Bloomington School of Institutional Analysis at the Ostrom Workshop [Fall 2014; Fall 2013]
  • Implementation Challenges of Governance Reform in Developing Countries, with Amos Sawyer [Spring 2008; course description]
  • Conflict Resolution and Self-Governance in Africa (And Other Regions) with Amos Sawyer [Spring 2003]
  • Research in Institutional Analysis, Development, and Governance [Spring 2002] 
  • Conflict and Governance [Spring 2001]
  • Democracy, Civilization, and World Order [Spring 2000] [Spring 1999]
  • Institutional Analysis and Development (Macro)  [Spring 1993]
• Seminar in Public Policy (Humboldt University, Berlin) [Fall 2004]

Summary of Participation in Ph.D. committees: As of Feb. 2020, I have chaired 14 dissertation committees and served on another 55.

• Department
• University
• Profession

Departmental Service

• Chair, July 2015- June 2016
• Director of Graduate Studies, 1990-1991, 2001-2002, January 2008 - July 2010
• Recruitment Director, 2008-09
• Acting (Summer) Chair, Summer 1991, 1993
• Personnel Committee, 1986-88 (appointed), 1993-97 (elected), Spring 1999 (elected), 2000-2002 (elected; Chair 2000-2001), 2007-09 (elected), 2014-15 (elected)
• Chair, Recruitment Committees: Human Rights 2013-14, Public Policy 2006-08, Public Law 1997-98.
• Member, Recruitment Committee, 2014-16 (Human Rights), 2002-04 (African Politics), 1992-93 (Formal Theory), International Relations Search Committee, 1990-91
• Member, Task Force on Undergraduate Major and the Curriculum, 1997-98
• Member, Task Force on Graduate Program, 2005-06
• Data Lab/Computer Policy Committee, 1985-86, 1988-90, 1992-93 (Chair), 1999-2000
• Graduate Advisory and Financial Aid Committee, 1990-91, 1998-2000, 2001-04, 2008-09

• Associate Dean for Social and Historical Sciences and Graduate Education, 2016-2019
• Director, The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, 2010-12
• Co-Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, 2003-2005, 2009-2010
• Co-Associate Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, 1997-1999, 2000-2003
• International Studies Program, Internal Advisory Board 2008-12 (Board President 2008-09)
• Member, Faculty Advisory Board, School of Global and International Studies, 2014-16
• Chair, Internal Review Committee, Center for American and Global Security, School of Global and International Affairs, 2015-16
• Chair, Internal Advisory Board, Center for American and Global Security, School of Global and International Affairs, 2016-
• Commitment to Excellence Committees: Statistics, Democracy Studies in a Global Age, Summer 2004
• Tenure Advisory Committee (Bloomington campus level), Dean of Faculties, 1996-99, College of Arts and Sciences 2007-09
• College Promotion Committee, 2014-15
• College Graduate Curriculum Committee, 2014-15
• Joint Ph.D. Admissions and Financial Aid Committee, Department of Political Science and School for Public and Environmental Affairs, Spring 1990-Spring 1991, 1992-93, 2001-2002, Spring 2003, 2008-2012
• Individualized Major Program Advisory Committee, 2000-2006
• Member, Search and Screen Committee for Executive Director for Ostrom Workshop, OVPR, 2013-14
• Member, Search Committee, Conflict and Security, Dept. of International Studies, Fall 2015

Professional Service

• Co-Editor, Institutional Analysis book series, University of Michigan Press, 1999-2001
• Co-Editor, International Studies Quarterly, 1994-1998
• Member, Editorial Board, International Interactions, 1991-1999
• Member, Council, Scientific Study of International Politics Section, International Studies Association, 1999-2001
• Chair, American Political Science Association Merriam Award Committee, 1997
• Member, IASC: International Association for the Study of the Commons; APSA: American Political Science Association, ISA: International Studies Association, MPSA: Midwest Political Science Association, PSS(I): Peace Science Society (International); SSSR: Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, ASREC: Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture
• Journal Reviewer,
  • Africa Today,
  • American Journal of Political Science (AJPS),
  • American Political Science Review (APSR),
  • American Politics Quarterly,
  • Business and Politics
  • Conflict Management and Peace Science,
  • Environmental Policy and Governance,
  • Good Society,
  • International Interactions,
  • International Journal of the Commons,
  • International Organization,
  • International Studies Quarterly (ISQ),
  • International Theory,
  • Journal of Conflict Resolution (JCR),
  • Journal of Environmental Management and Planning
  • Journal of Institutional Economics,
  • Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics,
  • Journal of Peace Research (JPR),
  • Journal of Politics,
  • Journal of Public Administration and Management (JPAM),
  • Journal of Theoretical Politics,
  • Mathematical and Computer Modelling,
  • Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly,
  • Perspectives on Politics,
  • Policy Sciences,
  • Policy Studies Journal (PSJ),
  • Political Behavior,
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS),
  • Public Administration Review (PAR),
  • Publius,
  • Review of Economic Studies,
  • Sociologia Ruralis,
  • Sustainablity,
  • Urban Studies
  • World Development
• Book and Proposal Reviewer, Cambridge University Press, Indiana University Press, University of Michigan Press, Princeton University Press, National Science Foundation.
• Book reviews, American Political Science Review, Sept. 2002,  96: 695-6 (Frank C. Zagare and D. Marc Kilgour, Perfect Deterrence, Cambridge University Press), and American Political Science Review, June 1998, 92: 508-509. (Todd Sandler, Global Challenges: An Approach to Environmental, Political, and Economic Problems, Cambridge University Press)
• Participant, Seminar on "International Justice and Democratic Transitions," Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs and University of Wisconsin, Madison, June 3-4, 1999.
• Presentation on "Enhancing Institutional Diversity in a Globalizing World," Seminar on "Gobernabilidad y Federalismo" ("Governance and Federalism") sponsored by the Escuela Iberoamericana de Gobierno y Políticas Públicas (IBERGOP-Mexico), Mexico City, September 23-24, 2002. [presentation; Spanish translation of power point presentation]

Recent Conference Participation (other than paper presenter)

• Keynote Address, 2nd Thematic Conference on Knowledge Commons: Governing Pooled Knowledge Commons, with Special Attention to Fields of Medicine and the Environment, International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), New York University (NYU) School of Law, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, Sept. 4, 2014 [presentation slides]

• Invited Speaker, Ostrom Memorial Session, Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, 83rd Annual Meeting, IU Northwest, Gary, IN, Oct. 12, 2012.

• Invited Participant, Liberty Fund conference on “The Bloomington School, the New Science and Art of Association, and Cultivating Self-Governing Citizens,” Bloomington, Indiana, July 26-29, 2012.

• Co-Presenter, ReThink Health Initiative Team, “Leadership for System Innovation,” an all-day mini-course at the 23^rd Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care, Institute for HealthCare Improvement (IHI), Dec. 4-7, 2011, in Orlando, Florida.

• Invited participant, Salzburg Global Seminar, Health and Healthcare Series III, Innovating for Value in Health Care Delivery: Better Cross-Border Learning, Smarter Adaptation and Adoption, Salzburg, Austria, September 25 through October 1, 2011.

• Chair, "Religious Beliefs and Economic Outcomes" panel, 2011 ASREC (Association of the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture), Arlington, Virginia, April 7-10, 2011.

• Program Organizer, SES Club Meeting, Nov. 30 - Dec. 1, 2010, Indiana University, Bloomington. [agenda]

• Invited Participant, "Oxford Round Table on Religion and Science: Shaping the Modern World," Harris Manchester College, Oxford, England, July 25-30, 2010.

• Discussant on a panel on “Radio Spectrum Governance: The Need for Collective Action” and participant in roundtable on “The Future of Infrastructure Self-Governance: Bringing Government Back In?,” 13th Annual International Conference on the Economics of Infrastructures, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, 27-28 May 2010.

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