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Biography
Paul Dragos Aligica is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute, and an associate professor at the National School of Political Science and Public Administration in Bucharest.
Dr. Aligica has written extensively on scenario building, international development, institutional change theories and strategies, and the economies and polities of Eastern Europe. In addition to his academic work, he has served as an expert to large international consulting firms and as an advisor or project partner to institutions such as the United Nations Development Program, the World Bank, European Union organizations, NATO, and the United States Agency for International Development.
Dr. Aligica earned his PhD in political science from Indiana University, Bloomington. He also earned a PhD in economics from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest and a PhD in sociology from the University of Bucharest.
Articles, Commentary, and Publications
- Learning in Time: New Institutionalism and the Central and Eastern European Economic Reform Experience
- Institutional and Stakeholder Mapping: Frameworks for Policy Analysis and Institutional Change
- Uncertainty, Human Action, and Scenarios: An Austrian Theory Based Decision Support Tool for Business Strategy and Public Policy
- Institutional Analysis and Economic Development Policy: Notes on the Applied Agenda of the Bloomington School
- Scenarios and the Growth of Knowledge: Notes on the Epistemic Element in Scenario Building
- The Millennium Challenge Account: Property Rights and Entrepreneurship as the Engine of Development
- Prediction, Explanation and the Epistemology of Future Studies
- Rethinking Institutional Analysis: Interviews with Vincent and Elinor Ostrom
- Ambiguity, Imitation and Innovation
- Analytic Narratives and Scenario Building
