The 2018 Summer Institute for Civic Studies will be held from June 11 to June 21, 2018 at Tufts University and is open for applications.
https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/research/civic-studies/summer-institute-civic-studies
Elinor Ostrom was one of the signers of the original Framing Statement prepared as part of planning for the first Summer Institute of Civic Studies.
https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/…/summer-i…/framing-statement
“The political community in question is not to be associated exclusively with the state or the nation (or the regime or the country): there are various small local polities as well as global ones, with multiple crosscutting boundaries. Civic initiatives can occur at various levels, forming a mosaic of crisscrossing – and sometimes contradictory — efforts, a layered and complex democracy, drawing on such principles as federalism and subsidiarity.”
[Photo from 2015 when I attended, during an informal visit by some participants to the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab]
