Dissecting Policy Designs: An Application of the Institutional Grammar Tool

Integrating core concepts from the institutional analysis and development framework for the systematic analysis of policy designs: An illustration from the US National Organic Program regulation

“…The approach integrates and applies multiple concepts from the institutional analysis and development (IAD) framework, including the institutional grammar, the rule typology, action situations, and levels of decision making (Basurto et al, 2010;Ostrom, 1995, 2005;Kiser and Ostrom, 1982;Ostrom, 1986Ostrom, , 2005Siddiki et al, 2011). Through an integration of these core IAD concepts, the approach addresses and moves beyond a central limitation uncovered in past institutional grammar tool (IGT) analyses of policy designs (e.g.…”

“…Through an integration of these core IAD concepts, the approach addresses and moves beyond a central limitation uncovered in past institutional grammar tool (IGT) analyses of policy designs (e.g. Basurto et al, 2010;Siddiki et al, 2011Siddiki et al, , 2012 -the deconstruction of a policy document into a potentially unwieldy number of statements composed of an even greater number of components. The approach begins with the deconstruction of a policy document, allowing for the individual elements of a policy design to be understood and sorted, and then reconstructs these elements so as to reveal the structural logic of the policy design in question.…”

From Institutions to Code: Towards Automated Generation of Smart Contracts

“…For example a prescription along with consequences for non-compliance can be described as People This grammar has found application in the context of policy-coding [8] as well as agent-based modeling [9].…”

An Institutional, Socio-economic, and Legal Analysis of Fisheries Co-management and Regulation in the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica

“…I used the software to create a coding system for classifying and organizing institutional statements, dividing them into individual units of observation and their corresponding syntactic elements. Legal documents were analyzed according to the procedures outlined in Basurto et al (2010) and Siddiki et al (2011). All definitions, preambles, and headings were omitted from coding because they do not represent institutional statements.…”

“…Basurto et al (2010) emphasize the distinction between institutions as and institutional statements-the former is a broader concept that includes stated rules and unwritten "rules-in-use," whereas the latter refers to statements that are linguistic in nature, are explicitly stated or written, and can thus be analyzed as separate units of observation. Basurto et al (2010) and Siddiki et al (2011) have refined the analytical framework into an institutional grammar tool (ITG), providing more specific instructions for applying it, as well as contextual factors to consider.…”