{"id":4428,"date":"2004-04-01T18:29:08","date_gmt":"2004-04-01T18:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2004-04-01T18:29:08","modified_gmt":"2004-04-01T18:29:08","slug":"workshop-in-political-theory-and-policy-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4428","title":{"rendered":"Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiana.edu\/~workshop\/\">Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis<\/a> at the University of Indiana. There&#8217;s an excellent conference here on &#8220;Scholarly Communications as a Commons.&#8221; I&#8217;m going to save commenting on that topic until tomorrow, when I&#8217;ll have more time for blogging and I may understand the issues a bit better. For today, I would like to praise the Workshop briefly (as I have before, in print). It seems to me absolutely exemplary as a home for engaged scholarship. The work of Elinor Ostrom and her colleagues involves close collaboration with communities; it generates information useful to those communities, while drawing on their knowledge; and it produces cutting-edge insights and methodologies of great importance to the social sciences. Ostrom&#8217;s insights could not arise without her community engagement. Thus she demonstrates that engagement can be more than just &#8220;service,&#8221; or a transfer of knowledge to people outside a university&#8211;it can be an essential form of inquiry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at the University of Indiana. There&#8217;s an excellent conference here on &#8220;Scholarly Communications as a Commons.&#8221; I&#8217;m going to save commenting on that topic until tomorrow, when I&#8217;ll have more time for blogging and I may understand the issues a bit better. For today, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}