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#Welcome
This is the companion checklist to the IJC publication "People still don't speak in institutional statements" [ADD LINK]. Here is where you will find detailed instructions and examples on how to apply the Institutional Grammar (IG) to your non-policy documents and explore rules-in-use (RIU).
More than thirty years after the conceptual development of the IG by Crawford and Ostrom in 1995, the refinements to the IG syntax and the addition of levels of expressiveness represented in the IG 2.0 now offer the opportunity to move away from descriptive analyses of institutional design features toward more systematic analysis of how institutional structure relates to behavior, compliance, and governance outcomes.
This Wiki represents a rules-in-use (RIU) IG coding protocol to help researchers apply the IG to nonpolicy texts. It is based on the experiences of researchers affiliated with the Institutional Grammar Research Initiative (IGRI) Grammar of Rules-in-Use Working Group. The Wiki was created by Ute Brady (Arizona State University) in collaboration with other members of the working group: Irene Perez Ibarra, Alicia Tenza Peral, Dan Detzi, Ismael Lare David, and Christopher Frantz [ADD LINKS].
The RIU IG coding protocol is offered as a dynamic resource to anyone interested in learning more about how to code rules-in-use and better understand institutional design and governance systems. It provides a way to make it easier to abstract institutional meaning from rules-in-use. As a living document, this Wiki depends on YOU! Your input, feedback, and adoption of this protocol will be essential to its incorporation in future analyses.
Advancements made in refining the coding guidelines may support the development of large language models (LLMs) capable of automatically coding non-policy data, paralleling current progress in the automated analysis of formal institutions (Rice et al. 2021). By making rules-in-use more visible, comparable, and analytically tractable, this protocol contributes to a more systematic understanding of how institutions operate in practice and how they shape governance outcomes.
For questions, please contact Ute Brady, ute.brady@asu.edu