Featured Scholar: William Blomquist,, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science
Director of the Liberal Arts and Management Program (LAMP)
Director of the Individualized Major Program (IMP)
Department of Political Science, IU Indianapolis School of Liberal Arts
Research Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WExYid22ADc
Water Policy Resource
Professor William Blomquist is an IU Indianapolis School of Liberal Arts faculty member within the Department of Political Science. He teaches American politics, constitutional law, public policy, and research methodology. He is the associate editor of the Water Resource Research Journal and a member of the Policy Studies Journal editorial board.
Professor Blomquist has collaborated with local governments, state and federal agencies, and nongovernmental organizations in the United States and elsewhere on decisions about how to organize policy making and implementation in water resource management, how to allocate water resources among competing uses, and how to involve multiple stakeholders and communities in those processes. He has led workshops and provided consultation for government agencies and nongovernmental organizations, and conducted collaborative research with local governments and nongovernmental organizations.
Professor Blomquist's translation of research into water policy resource solutions is another excellent example of how IU Indianapolis's faculty members are TRANSLATING RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE.
Selected Publications in IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks
With several research works contributed to IU Indianapolis's free, open access repository, Professor William Blomquist has made translational research knowledge available to professionals, researchers, students, and communities around the world.
Blomquist, W. A., & Schröder, N. J. S. (2019). Seeing Polycentrically: Examining Governance Situations Using a Polycentricity Lens. In A. Thiel, D. E. Garrick, & W. A. Blomquist (Eds.), Governing Complexity: Analyzing and Applying Polycentricity (pp. 45–64). Cambridge University Press. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25563
Porse, E., Mika, K., Pincetl, S., Gold, M., & Blomquist, W. A. (2018, July 27). Groundwater exchange pools in Los Angeles: An innovative example of adaptive management. California WaterBlog. https://californiawaterblog.com/2018/07/27/groundwater-exchange-pools-in-los-angeles-an-innovative-example-of-adaptive-management/. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25595
Milman, A., Galindo, L., Blomquist, W., & Conrad, E. (2018). Establishment of agencies for local groundwater governance under California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. Water Alternatives, 11(3), 458–480. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25564
Conrad, E., Martinez, J., Moran, T., DuPraw, M., Ceppos, D., & Blomquist, W. (2016). To Consolidate or Coordinate? Status of the Formation of Groundwater Sustainability Agencies in California. Water in the West Reports and Working Papers, Stanford University. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25604
Blomquist, W. (2016, May 15). SGMA and the Challenge of Groundwater Management Sustainability. California WaterBlog. https://californiawaterblog.com/2016/05/15/sgma-and-the-challenge-of-groundwater-management-sustainability/. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25562
Blomquist, W., & deLeon, P. (2011). The design and promise of the institutional analysis and development framework. Policy Studies Journal, 39(1), 1-7. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25561
Schlager, E., & Blomquist, W. (2008). Embracing Watershed Politics. University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.1353/book.2688. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25602
Blomquist, W., & Ostrom, E. (2008). Deliberation, learning, and institutional change: the evolution of institutions in judicial settings. Constitutional Political Economy, 19(3), 180-202. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25560
Blomquist, W., Ballestero, M., Bhat, A., & Kemper, K. (2005). Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: The Tárcoles River basin, Costa Rica. The World Bank. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25600
Blomquist, W., Dinar, A., & Tonderski, A. (2005). Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Warta River Basin, Poland. The World Bank. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25601
Blomquist, W. A., Dinar, A., & Kemper, K. (2005). Comparison of Institutional Arrangements for River Basin Management in Eight Basins. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3636. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25598
Blomquist, W., Diez, M., Dinar, A., Fru, W., Kemper, K., & Sine, G. (2005). Decentralization of river basin management: a global analysis. The World Bank. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25605
Blomquist, W. A., Giansante, C., Bhat, A., & Kemper, K. (2005). Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Guadalquivir River Basin, Spain. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, (3526). https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25599
Blomquist, W., Heikkila, T., & Schlager, E. (2004). Building the Agenda for Institutional Research in Water Resource Management. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 40(4), 925–936. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25559
Schlager, E., & Blomquist, W. (2000). Local Communities, Policy Prescriptions, and Watershed Management in Arizona, California, and Colorado. Constituting the Commons: Crafting Sustainable Commons in the New Millennium, the Eighth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Bloomington, Indiana. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25597
Blomquist, W. (1998). Common Property’s Role in Water Resource Management. Second International Conference on Property Rights, Economics and Environment, Center for Applied Economics, Universite d’Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25557
Schlager, E., & Blomquist, W. (1998 June 10-14). Resolving Common Pool Resource Dilemmas and Heterogeneities Among Resource Users. Crossing Boundaries, the Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25596
Blomquist, W., & Schlager, E. (1997). Property Rights, Political Power, and the Management of Ground and Surface Water. Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Tucson, Arizona. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25556
Blomquist, W. (1994, June). The local groundwater economy in Los Angeles County, California. In Workshop on the Workshop. Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25555
Ostrom, E., Agrawal, A., Blomquist, W., Schlager, E., & Tang, S.-Y. (1989). CPR Coding Manual. Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. https://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/handle/10535/10728. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25603