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GRADUATE STUDENT DISSERTATIONS

Ahn, T. K. 2001. “Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas.”

Allen, Linda. 2005. “The Politics of Structural Choice of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation: The Theoretical Foundations of the Design of International Environmental Institutions.”

Andersson, Krister P. 2002. “Can Decentralization Save Bolivia’s Forests? An Institutional Analysis of Municipal Forest Governance.”

Araral, Eduardo K. 2006. “Decentralization Puzzles: A Political Economy Analysis of Irrigation Reform in the Philippines.”

Blomquist, William. 1987. “Getting Out of the Trap: Changing an Endangered Commons to a Managed Commons.”

Bushouse, Brenda K. 1999. “The Mixed Economy of Child Care: An Institutional Analysis of Nonprofit, For Profit, and Public Enterprises.”

Choe, Jaesong. 1992. “The Organization of Urban Common-Property Institutions: The Case of Apartment Communities in Seoul.”

Coleman, Eric. 2009. “Essays on the Effects of Institutions and Trust on Collective Action.”

Collins, Brian K. 2000. “Contestable Markets for State Economic Governance: Reducing the Costs of Democracy in U.S. States.”

Cooper, James L., Jr. 1993. “The Solicitor General and Federal Litigation: Principal-Agent Relationships and the Separation of Powers.”

Cox, Michael. 2010. “Exploring the Dynamics of Social-Ecological Systems: The Case of the Taos Valley Acequias.”

Croissant, Cynthia. 2005. “Uses and Landscape Patterns: A Study of Relationships between Human Activities and Spatial Patterns of Land Use and Land Cover on Private Parcels in Monroe County, Indiana.”

De Castro, Fabio. 2000. “Fishing Accords: The Political Ecology of Fishing Intensification in the Amazon.”

Dolsak, Nives. 2000. “Marketable Permits: Managing Local, Regional, and Global Commons.”

Donnelly, Shanon. 2009. “Linking Land Use, Land Cover, and Land Ownership at the Parcel Scale in the Midwest United States.”

Duany, Julia Aker. 1996. “Sudanese Women and Education: The Struggle for Equal Access and Participation.”

Dudley, Dean. 1993. “Essays on Individual Behavior in Social Dilemma Environments: An Experimental Analysis.”

Elliott-Teague, Ginger. 2007. “NGOs in Policymaking in Tanzania: The Relationships of Group Characteristics, Political Participation and Policy Outcomes.”

Futemma, Celia. 2000. “Collective Action and Assurance of Property Rights to Natural Resources: A Case Study from the Lower Amazon Region, Santarem, Brazil.”

Griffith, Nathan. 2004. “We, the High Contracting Parties: A Constitutional Economics Theory of Regional Integration.”

Hayes, Tanya. 2007. “Forest Governance in a Frontier: An Analysis of the Dynamic Interplay between Property Rights, Land-Use Norms, and Agricultural Expansion in the Mosquitia Forest Corridor of Honduras and Nicaragua.”

Hung, Chi-Kan Richard. 1999. “Credit Risk Management and Rules: The Experience of Group-Based Microcredit Programs in the United States.”

Jagger, Pamela. 2009. “Can Forest Sector Devolution Improve Rural Livelihoods? An Analysis of Forest Income and Institutions in Western Uganda.”

Kashwan, Prakash. 2011. “Democracy in the Woods: The Politics of Institutional Change in India’s Forest Areas.”

Kauneckis, Derek. 2005. “The Co-Production of Property Rights: Theory and Evidence from a Mixed-Right System in Southern Mexico.”

Kessler, David A. 1989. “Improving Policing: The Impact of Neighborhood-Oriented Policing on Officers' Attitudes Toward the Public.”

Koontz, Tomas M. 1997. “Federalism and Natural Resource Policy: Comparing State and National Management of Public Forests.”

Marquez, Lilian. 2011. “The Effect of Institutions on Guatemalan Forests: Conceptual, Methodological and Practical Implications.”

Mwangi, Esther. 2003. “Institutional Change and Politics: The Transformation of Property Rights in Kenya’s Maasailand.”

Myint, Tun. 2005. “Strength of ‘Weak’ Forces in Multilayer Environmental Governance: Cases from the Mekong and Rhine River Basins.”

Namubiru, Evelyn Lwanga. 2008. “Coping with Top-Down Institutional Changes in Forestry.”

Never, Brent. 2005. “Institution Making in Times of Crisis (Benin).”

Oakerson, Ronald J. 1978. “The Erosion of Public Highways: A Policy Analysis of the Eastern Kentucky Coal-Haul Road Problem.”

Oyerinde, Oyebade Kunle. 2006. “The Constitution of Order among the Yoruba of Nigeria.”

Pacheco, Diego. 2007. “An Institutional Analysis of Decentralization and Indigenous Timber Management in Common-Property Forests of Bolivia’s Lowlands.”

Persha, Lauren. 2008. “Decentralized Forest Management, Anthropogenic Disturbance Patterns and Forest Change in the Usambara Mountains, Tanzania.”

Polski, Margaret M. 2000. “Institutional Evolution and Change: Interstate Banking Reform in the United States.”

Prakash, Aseem. 1997. “A Logic of Corporate Environmentalism: ‘Beyond Compliance’ Environmental Policymaking in Baxter International Inc. and Eli Lilly and Company.”

Raines, Susan Summers. 2002. “Unheard Voices in International Environmental Agreements: Implications of Stakeholder Absence on the Legitimacy and Efficacy of ISO 14001.”

Regmi, Ashok. 2007. “The Role of Group Heterogeneity in Collective Action: A Look at the Intertie between Irrigation and Forests. Case Studies from Chitwan, Nepal.”

Reiners, Derek. 2006. “Institutional Effects on Decision-Making and Performance in Public Land Agencies: The Case of Wildfire in the Interior West of the United States.”

Sabet, Daniel M. 2005. “Thickening Civil Society: Nonprofit Organizations and Problems of Water and Sanitation Along Mexico’s Northern Border.”

Schoon, Michael. 2008. “Building Robustness to Disturbance: Governance in Southern African Peace Parks.”

Schweik, Charles M. 1998. “The Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Forest Resources and Institutions.”

Sillay, Stephanie. 2008. “Arbitral Veto Authority, Legislative Bargaining, and Patterns of Consensus Formation: An Exploration of Abstract Judicial Review and Referenda as Legislative Arbitrators in Hungary and Switzerland.”

Silva-Forsberg, Maria Clara. 1999. “Protecting an Urban Forest Reserve in the Amazon: A Multi-Scale Analysis of Edge Effects, Population Pressure and Institutions.”

Smith, Ronald S. 2006. “Discerning Differences in Social Capital: The Significance of Interpersonal Network and Neighborhood Association Structure on Citizen Participation.”

Southworth, Jane. 2000. “Global Environmental Change: What are the Impacts of Climate Change and Land Cover Change on Different Ecosystems?”

Steed, Brian C. 2010. “Natural Forces, Human Choices: An Over Time Study of Responses to Biophysical and Human Induced Disturbance in Los Angeles, California Groundwater Governance.”

Sun, Wenjie. 2006. “A GIS-Based Integrated Approach to Explore Land-Use/Cover Change Dynamics in South-Central Indiana.”

Swindell, David W. 1997. “Community Organizations and the Governing Capability of Indianapolis Neighborhoods.”

Tang, Shui Yan. 1989. “Institutions and Collective Action in Irrigation Systems.”

Toniolo, Maria Angélica. 2004. “The Role of Land Tenure in the Occurrence of Accidental Fires in the Amazon Region: Case Studies from the National Forest of Tapajós, Pará, Brazil.”

Turner, Jennifer. 1997. “Authority Flowing Downwards? Local Government Entrepreneurship in the Chinese Water Sector.”

Turner, Paul W. 1998. “Constitutional Orders and Deforestation: A Cross-National Analysis of the Humid Tropics.”

van Laerhoven, Frank. 2008. “Local Governance and the Challenge of Solving Collective Action Dilemmas.”

Varughese, George. 1999. “Villagers, Bureaucrats, and Forests in Nepal: Designing Governance for a Complex Resource.”

Vogt, Nathan. 2005. “Mechanisms of Land-Cover Change in Uganda: Longer-Term Analyses of the Role of Institutional Arrangements.”

Walker, S. Tjip. 1998. “Both Pretense and Promise: The Political Economy of Privatization in Africa.”

Wang, Jianxun. 2006. “Political Economy of Village Governance in Contemporary China.”

Welch, David. 2007. “Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Forest Dynamics in South Central Indiana and Southern Illinois.”

Wisdom, Thomas N. 2010. “Incentives, Innovation, and Imitation: Social Learning in a Networked Group.”

Wynne, Susan G. 1989. “The Land Boards of Botswana: A Problem in Institutional Design.”

Yandle, Tracy. 2001. “Market-Based Natural Resource Management: An Institutional Analysis of Individual Tradable Quotas in New Zealand’s Commercial Fisheries.”

York, Abigail. 2005. “Land Use Institutions in an Urbanizing Landscape.”