Whaley, L. (2018) The critical institutional analysis and development (CIAD) framework. International Journal of the Commons, 12 (2). pp. 137-161. ISSN 1875-0281
Abstract
In recent years, ‘critical institutionalism’ has emerged as a school of thought in its own right. Among its strengths is a focus on institutions as both complex and embedded, where institutional change is understood as a process of bricolage. Yet a number of distinct challenges follow from this. These include capturing the ‘complex-embeddedness’ of institutions; making critical institutionalism amendable to the world of policy; investigating the more hidden, informal, and everyday dimensions of institutional life; and providing explanations of commons governance that foreground the workings of power and meaning. In this paper, I provide an outline of the Critical Institutional Analysis and Development (CIAD) Framework, designed to explicitly reflect the basic tenets and core claims of critical institutionalism. Whilst it shares similarities with its predecessors – the IAD Framework (Ostrom 1990, 2005) and ‘politicised’ IAD Framework (Clement 2010) – the modifications it has undergone results in a qualitatively different framework geared toward critical institutional research. The paper considers ways in which the CIAD Framework facilitates systematic and critical analyses of commons governance whilst addressing key challenges a critical institutional approach engenders.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. |
Keywords: | Critical Institutionalism; CIAD Framework; IAD Framework; Structure and agency; Methodology; Governance |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 08 Nov 2018 13:12 |
Last Modified: | 09 Nov 2018 01:54 |
Published Version: | http://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.848 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.18352/ijc.848 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:137932 |