The Policy Design Studio provides evidence-based training and analysis on the design and implementation of public policies to support good governance. Through trainings, we equip governments, non-governmental organizations and future public service leaders with skills for policy design, policy implementation and stakeholder engagement in the policy process. Through technical analysis, we help governments and non-governmental organizations evaluate whether policies are effectively designed and carried out, as well as whether the stakeholder engagement processes they are using are effectively designed and run.

Established during at a workshop hosted by Syracuse University in 2018, and sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Institutional Grammar Research Initiative is a network of scholars from around the world with a common interest in the theoretical and methodological advancement of the Institutional Grammar, proposed by Sue Crawford and Elinor Ostrom (1995). IGRI affiliates are currently engaged in research that addresses one or more of the following themes:

• Computational text analysis with Institutional Grammar
• Evaluating institutional performance
• Using the Institutional Grammar to study simulated and real behavior