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We look forward to your submissions by 12 December! Please, get in touch with one of the panel organizers if you had further queries. *Long-term evolution and institutional change in sustainable polycentric governance: connecting theory and normative conditions with empirical analysis* *Co-Chairs:* Elizabeth Baldwin1, Michael McGinnis2, Mark Stephan3, and Andreas Thiel4 1University of Arizona, USA, 2Indiana University, USA, 3Washington State University, USA, 4University of Kassel, Germany Abstract <https://2023.iasc-commons.org/conference-panels/> Scholarship on polycentric governance has developed dynamically in recent years. The theorized core virtues of polycentric governance, such as resilience and adaptiveness, highlight its features in dynamic contexts. For example, polycentric governance is held to be adaptive because while it changes its form, it maintains its function. But few empirical studies examine institutional change over time in polycentric systems. This observation begs several crucial questions concerning the underlying determinants of sustainable polycentric governance: under what constitutional and social-ecological conditions does polycentric governance adapt well and prove resilient? What drives polycentric governance to change its form? Further, what feedbacks signal the need to adapt in polycentric governance and how do they function? To what extent is adaptation and change of governance the outcome of deliberate bottom-up or top down agency, or is change an emergent property of polycentric governance? What may be early warning signs that polycentric governance does not prove resilient and adaptive in the long term? What role do legitimacy and modes of contesting existing orders and the political economy of governance play? In this panel, we invite submissions that address these questions. Further, researchers ideally discuss several methodological challenges and constraints of such long-term studies and ways to overcome them. In order to contribute to coherence, organizers will circulate materials in advance that frames research on sustainable polycentric governance. The panel invites contributions to above-named questions by authors willing to engage into the kind of cross-cutting discussion outlined here. Please, submit your abstracts here by 12 December 2022: https://2023.iasc-commons.org/paper-abstract-submission/ You will be notified of acceptance during January/ February 2023. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/CADG68z664a%3DyW6ydAzaDHot%3DYDWvH%2BmmB9ZF92xCLM_P28AepA%40mail.gmail.com.
