Eight articles made the short list of the this year’s Elinor Ostrom Prize:

Palina Kolvani & Marina Nistotskaya (2025) “On Mechanisms of Meritocratic Recruitment: Competence and Impartiality” 21(e12)

Christos A. Makridis & Joshua D. Ammons (2025) “Governing the Large Language Model Commons: Using Digital Assets to Endow Intellectual Property Rights” 21(e19)

Kazuhiro S. Taniguchi (2025) “Understanding Masahiko Aoki’s Comparative Institutional Analysis” 21(e21)

Marcel Parent, Antoine Parent, Pierre-Charles Pradier & Laurent Gauthier (2025) “Jaurès’s The New Army (1911): The Organisation of Democratic Institutions as War Prevention” 21(e23)

Ina Kubbe, Fatih Kırsanlı & Wisnu Setiadi Nugroho (2025) “Corruption and Informal Practices in the Middle East and North Africa: A Pooled Cross-Sectional Analysis” 21(e24)

Blaž Remic (2025) “Enacting the future: institutions, temporal affordances, and the formation of expectations” 21(e34)

Enrico Petracca & Shaun Gallagher (2025) “Norms are Relational: Cognitive Institutions, Practices, and the ‘Where’ Question” 21(e39)

Massimo Cervesato (2025) “Elinor Ostrom, Reader of Herbert A. Simon: The Sciences of the Artificial as a Methodological Guide ‘To Deal with Complexity’” 21(e41)

The author(s) of the winning article will receive £1,600. The announcement will be made at WINIR 2026 in Rome, Italy.

The members of the 2026 Ostrom Prize Committee are: Paul Dragos Aligica, Luca Andriani, Sinclair Davidson, Erwin Dekker, David Dequech, Elodie Douarin, Randall Holcombe, Clara Jean, Lynne Kiesling, and Jennifer Murtazashvili.

Learn more about the Elinor Ostrom Prize here.