Transitioning from planning to implementation: comparing collaborative governance and developmental dynamics in 4 watersheds

Identifies factors associated with successful transitions from planning to implementation in watershed collaborations and maps developmental trajectories over time.

August 2025 · Graham Ambrose; Mark T. Imperial

Evaluating conflict in collaborative environmental governance: A study of environmental justice councils

Measures the extent and severity of conflict, links actor attributes to conflict in two-way communication, and examines sectoral differences and activity-level variation across time.

January 2025 · Graham Ambrose; Jangmin Kim; Saba Siddiki

Evaluating Conflict, Interest Advancement, and Representation in Collaborative Governance

Analyzes links between conflict dynamics, who advances which interests, and how representation manifests across actors and meetings in collaborative settings.

January 2025 · Graham Ambrose; Shuyang Li; A. M. A. S. Yusuf; Saba Siddiki

Assessing drivers of sustained engagement in collaborative governance arrangements

Tests four theory-driven hypotheses about sustained stakeholder participation in an environmental justice council and identifies interpersonal interactions and policy wins as key contributors.

October 2024 · Graham Ambrose; Saba Siddiki

Understanding the Emergence of Computational Institutional Science: A Review of Computational Modeling of Institutions and Institutional Dynamics

Surveys and synthesizes work at the intersection of institutional analysis and computation, outlining core lenses, topics, and methods that define computational institutional science.

June 2024 · Nicholas Oesterling; Graham Ambrose; Jiho Kim

Understanding policy evolution using institutional grammar: net metering policies in the United States

Comparative case study across four U.S. states that operationalizes changes in policy provisions, rule types, and calibration to reveal dynamics of policy patching and packaging.

April 2024 · Graham Ambrose; Myriam Gregoire-Zawilski; Saba Siddiki; Nicholas Oesterling

Exploring collaboration dynamics and representation in environmental justice councils

Finds distinct sectoral discussion patterns; retreat meetings increase discussion for all sectors; and meeting-level factors associate differently with representation across sectors.

January 2024 · Graham Ambrose

Three Essays on Representation, Participation, and Conflict in Environmental Justice Councils

Builds an original longitudinal dataset from meeting minutes to analyze who participates, who is represented in two-way communications, and how conflict dynamics evolve across councils and time.

January 2024 · Graham Ambrose

Understanding Policy Evolution Using the Institutional Grammar: A Case of Net Metering Policies in the United States

Uses rule-type and calibration changes to characterize how net metering statutes evolve across states, illustrating dynamics of policy patching and packaging.

November 2023 · Saba Siddiki; Myriam Gregoire-Zawilski; Graham Ambrose

Comparing happiness associated with household and community gardening: Implications for food action planning

Finds community gardening yields greater net affect overall, while household gardening particularly benefits women and low-income gardeners, implications for municipal food action planning.

February 2023 · Graham Ambrose; Kirti Das; Yingling Fan; Anu Ramaswami

Evaluating change in representation and coordination in collaborative governance over time: A study of environmental justice councils

Tracks shifts in who participates and how actors coordinate in collaborative governance bodies focused on environmental justice.

January 2023 · Saba Siddiki; Graham Ambrose

Collaborative governance design in local food systems in the United States

Analyzes the design of municipal food policy councils in the U.S., detailing membership, contextual drivers, topical foci, and mandated activities to inform collaborative governance practice.

August 2022 · Graham Ambrose; Saba Siddiki; Ute Brady

Linking Form, Process, and Function of Environmental Collaboratives over Time

Presents longitudinal evidence connecting structure, participation processes, and functional outputs in environmental collaboratives, with implications for collaborative governance design.

November 2021 · Saba Siddiki; Graham Ambrose; Ute Brady

What is the size and distribution of different types of local agriculture serving urban areas? Linkages with urban food security and environmental sustainability

Presents an urban-systems perspective on local agriculture typologies, quantifying distribution patterns and discussing implications for food security and environmental outcomes.

December 2020 · Devon Boyer; Graham Ambrose; J. Gupta; Shashi Shekhar; Anu Ramaswami

Is gardening associated with greater happiness of urban residents? A multi-activity, dynamic assessment in the Twin-Cities region, USA

Analyzes self-reported happiness across daily activities to evaluate the relationship between gardening and emotional well-being in the Twin Cities.

January 2020 · Graham Ambrose; Kirti Das; Yingling Fan; Anu Ramaswami

The Role of Values in Decision-making of Small, Vegetable Farmers in the Minneapolis–St. Paul Foodshed

Analyzes the influence of personal and community values on on-farm decisions, market choices, and sustainability tradeoffs for small-scale vegetable farmers.

January 2018 · Graham Ambrose