Professor William Blomquist

William Blomquist is Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), and a Senior Research Fellow of the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University - Bloomington. His research interests concern governmental organization and public policy, with a specialization in the field of water institutions and water management. His published books include Dividing the Waters: Governing Groundwater in Southern...See more

William Blomquist is Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), and a Senior Research Fellow of the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University - Bloomington. His research interests concern governmental organization and public policy, with a specialization in the field of water institutions and water management. His published books include Dividing the Waters: Governing Groundwater in Southern California; Common Waters, Diverging Streams: Linking Institutions and Water Management in Arizona, California, and Colorado (with Edella Schlager and Tanya Heikkila); Integrated Water Resource Management through Decentralization (co-edited with Karin Kemper and Ariel Dinar); Embracing Watershed Politics (with Edella Schlager), and Governing Complexity: Analyzing and Applying Polycentricity (co-edited with Andreas Thiel and Dustin Garrick). See less