In this two-day online course, you will learn how to conduct an institutional analysis using the Institutional Grammar 2.0 by coding formal and informal institutions, such as policies, regulations, interviews, surveys, and speeches, and by identifying and coding regulative and constitutive institutional statements.
What Is This Course About?
This two-day online short course introduces the Institutional Grammar (IG), a theory-based approach for analyzing how institutions are designed, structured, and interpreted. Institutions can be formal, such as policies and regulations, or informal, including data from interviews, surveys, speeches, official statements, or court documents. You will learn how to design a basic institutional analysis using the IG and apply it to your own or another research project. The course covers the foundations of institutional analysis and teaches you how to identify and code both regulative and constitutive institutional statements across formal and informal data.
Learning Goals
1. Learn the basics of conducting an institutional analysis using the Institutional Grammar 2.0 (IG).
2. Understand how to identify and code regulative and constitutive institutional statements.
3. Learn how to analyze the structure and meaning of institutions for your research.
4. Understand the advantages and limitations of using the Institutional Grammar.
5. Become familiar with key foundational texts on institutional analysis and the Institutional Grammar.
Recommended Readings for the Course
1. Crawford, S. E. S., & Ostrom, E. (1995). A Grammar of Institutions. The American Political Science Review, 89(3), 582-600. https://www.jstor.org/stable/208297
2. Frantz, C. K., & Siddiki, S. (2022). Institutional Grammar: Foundations and Applications for Institutional Analysis. Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86372-2
3. Siddiki, S., Brady, U., & Frantz, C. K. (2023). The Institutional Grammar: Evolving Directions in Current Research. International Review of Public Policy, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.4000/irpp.3550.
Assignments for the Course
Short course (2 days online, 8 hours total) | 1 ECTS point
Requirements to obtain credit:
- Attendance (participant has demonstrably attended 80% of all course activities)
- One formative in-class assignment (not graded) (short quiz and coding assignment)
Schedule
13.00-14.30h: Asynchronous materials
14.30-15.00h: Break
15.00-16.30h: Synchronous lab
16.30-17.30h: Independent small group learning
17.30-18.30h: Office hours
In addition, students should plan for sufficient time to do the assigned daily homework and read the assigned literature in advance.
Who Is Your Instructor?
Ute Brady uses collective action, public policy, and political science methods and a linguistic approach called the Institutional Grammar to study how the design of institutions (e.g., rules, regulations, policies) can better influence decision-making, policy implementation, and outcomes. Her current projects address complex, cross-jurisdictional, social-ecological governance challenges, including international biodiversity conservation, digital knowledge commons, and regional/local sustainability efforts.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ute-brady-ph-d-30358615/
