Henderson Professor of Political Science

Henderson Professor

FSU Department of Political Science

Tallahassee, FL

2024 - 2009

• Full Professor (2022–present)
• Associate Professor (2015–2022)
• Assistant Professor (2009–2015)

Director

FSU Global and Public Affairs Living Learning Community

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2024 - 2015

Visiting Professor

Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Public Policy

Atlanta, GA

2017 - 2016

• Sabbatical Year

Ph.D. Public Policy

Indiana University

Bloomington, IN

2009 - 2004

• Dissertation: Essays on the effects of institutions and trust on
  collective action
• Supervisor: Elinor Ostrom
• Joint Ph.D. program offered between Political Science and SPEA
• Additional Training:

M.S. Economics

Utah State University

Logan, UT

2004 - 2003

• M.S. Thesis: Determinants of Residential Water Conservation:
  The Case of Salt Lake City, Utah
• Supervisor: Terry Glover

B.A. Political Science and Economics (dual major)
Certificate in International Relations

Utah State University

Logan, UT

2003 - 2000

Henderson Professorship

FSU Department of Political Science

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2023

(2023 – present)

Senior Research Fellow

Earth Systems Governance Project

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2021

(2021–present)

Developing Scholar Award

Florida State University

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2016

Erasmus Mundus Visiting Professor

International Master of Science in Rural Development (IMRD)

Italy, Germany

2014

University Teaching Award

Florida State University

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2013

Also nominated for:

• FSU Distinguished Teaching Award in 2020
• FSU Outstanding Teaching in the Major Award in 2023
• FSU Community Engaged Teaching Award in 2023
• FSU Undergraduate Advising Award in 2020
• FSU Graduate Faculty Mentor Award in 2017

Lone Mountain Fellowship

Property and Environment Research Center

Bozeman, MT

2011

Virgil T. DeVault Graduate Fellowship

Indiana University

Bloomington, IN

2009

Summer Graduate Fellowship

Property and Environment Research Center

Bozeman, MT

2007

Using machine learning to uncover synergies between forest restoration and livelihood support in the Himalayas

Ecology and Society 29 (1), 32

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2024

Pushpendra Rana, Harry W. Fischer, Eric A. Coleman, and Forrest D. Fleischman

How Communities Benefit from Collaborative Governance: Experimental Evidence in Ugandan Oil and Gas

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 33 (4), 616–632.

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2023

Eric A. Coleman, Bill Schultz, A. Rani Parker, Jacob Manyindo, and Emmanuel M. Mukuru

Policy Attributes Shape Climate Policy Support

Policy Studies Journal 51 (2), 419–437.

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2023

Eric A. Coleman, Niklas Harring, and Sverker C. Jagers.

Public Opinion toward the Environment and Climate Change in the US

Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science, edited by Mark Jones. Oxford University Press.

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2023

Eric A. Coleman and James Stewart, III.

Restoration Prioritization Must be informed by Marginalized People

Nature 607: E5–E6.

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2022

Forrest Fleischman, Eric A. Coleman, Harry W. Fischer, Prakash Kashwan, Marion Pfeifer, Vijay Ramprasad, Claudia Solorzano Rodriguez, and Joseph W. Veldman

Recognizing the Equity Implications of Restoration Priority Maps

Environmental Research Letters 17 (11), 114019.

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2022

Bill Shultz, Bill, Dan Brockington, Eric A. Coleman, Ida Djenontin, Harry Fischer, Prakash Fleischman, Forest, Kashwan, Marion Pfeiffer, and Rose Pritchard.

Limited Effects of Tree Planting on Forest Canopy Cover and Rural Livelihoods in Northern India

Nature Sustainability 4 (11): 997–1004.

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2021

Eric A. Coleman, Bill Schultz, Vijay Ramprasad, Harry W. Fischer, Pushpendra Rana, Anthony M. Filippi, Burak Güneralp, Andong Ma, Claudia Rodriguez Solorzano, Vijay Guleria, Rajesh Rana, and Forrest Fleischman

Lessons Learned from Synthetic Research Projects Based on the Ostrom Workshop Frameworks

Ecology and Society 26 (1): 17.

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2021

Michael Cox, Georgina G. Gurney, John M. Anderies, Eric A. Coleman, Emily Darling, Graham Epstein, Ulrich J. Frey, Mateja Nenadovic, Edella Schlager, and Sergio Villamayor-Tomas

Pitfalls of Tree Planting Show Why We Need People-Centered Natural Climate Solutions

BioScience 70 (11): 947–50.

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2020

Forrest Fleischman, Shishir Basant, Ashwini Chhatre, Eric A. Coleman, Harry W. Fischer, Divya Gupta, Burak Güneralp, Prakash Kashwan, Dil Khatri, Robert Muscarella, Jennifer S. Powers, Vijay Ramprasad, Pushpendra Rana, Claudia Rodriguez Solorzano, and Joseph W. Veldman

Bridging the Academic-Practitioner Gap in RCTs

World Development 127: 104818–19.

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2020

A. Rani Parker, Eric A. Coleman, Jacob Manyindo, Emmanuel Mukuru, and Bill Schultz

Practitioners Handbook on Good Practice in Implementing Forest Tenure Reform

Center for International Forestry Research.

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2019

Eric A. Coleman

Stakeholder Engagement Increases Transparency, Satisfaction, and Civic Action

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116 (49): 24486–91.

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2019

Eric A. Coleman, Jacob Manyindo, A. Rani Parker, and Bill Schultz

Participation and Political Influence in Complex Governance Systems

Policy Studies Journal 47 (4): 1002–25.

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2019

Jack Mewhirter, Eric A. Coleman, and Ramiro Berardo

Community-Driven Reconstruction in Colombia: An Experimental Study of Collective Action beyond Program Beneficiaries

World Development 101: 188–201.

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2018

Ben D’Exelle, Eric A. Coleman, and Maria Claudia Lopez

Common Property in the Trust Game: Experimental Evidence from Bulgaria

Journal of Theoretical Politics 28 (1): 27–43.

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2016

Eric A. Coleman

Introduction to Special Issue on Elinor Ostrom and Social Dilemmas

Journal of Theoretical Politics 28 (1): 3–4.

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2016

Eric A. Coleman and Rick K. Wilson

Conflict, Cooperation, and Institutional Change on the Commons

American Journal of Political Science 59 (4): 855–65.

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2015

Eric A. Coleman and Esther Mwangi. 2015

Moral Frames and Climate Change Policy Attitudes

Social Science Quarterly 96 (5): 1277–90.

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2015

Alex W. Severson and Eric A. Coleman

Behavioral Determinants of Citizen Involvement: Evidence from Natural Resource Decentralization Policy

Public Administration Review 74 (5): 642–54.

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2014

Eric A. Coleman

Property Rights and Forest Commons

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 33 (3): 649–68.

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2014

Eric A. Coleman and Scott S. Liebertz

Women’s Participation in Forest Management: A Cross-Country Analysis

Global Environmental Change 23 (1): 193–205.

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2013

Eric A. Coleman and Esther Mwangi

Voting for Environmental Donations: Experimental Evidence from Majorca, Spain

Ecological Economics 75: 52–60.

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2012

Esther Blanco, Maria Claudia Lopez, and Eric A. Coleman

Using Stocking Guides to Take Stock of Forest Institutions

Society and Natural Resources 25 (2): 209–15.

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2012

Eric A. Coleman, Burnell Fischer, and John A. Kershaw

Comparing Forest Decentralization and Local Institutional Change in Bolivia, Kenya, Mexico, and Uganda

World Development 40 (4): 836–49.

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2012

Eric A. Coleman and Forrest D. Fleischman

Common Property Rights, Adaptive Capacity, and Response to Forest Disturbance

Global Environmental Change 21 (3): 855–865.

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2011

Eric A. Coleman

Experimental Contributions to Collective Action Theory

Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science, edited by James N. Druckman, Arthur Lupia, Donald Green, and James Kuklinski, 339–52. Cambridge University Press.

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2011

Eric A. Coleman and Elinor Ostrom

An Experimental Study for Environmental Fundraising in Majorca, Spain

Research in Experimental Economics (14). Experiments on Energy, the Environment, and Sustainability, edited by R. Mark Isaac and Douglas A. Norton, 181–211. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

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2011

Maria Claudia Lopez, Esther Blanco, and Eric A. Coleman

Institutional and Ecological Interplay for Successful Self-Governance of Community-Based Fisheries

Ecological Economics 69 (5): 1094–1103.

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2010

Xavier Basurto and Eric A. Coleman

A Comparison of Demand-Side Water Management Strategies Using Disaggregate Data

Public Works Management and Policy 13 (3): 215-223.

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2009

Eric A. Coleman

Institutional Factors AffectingBiophysical Outcomes in Forest Management

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 28 (1): 122–46.

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2009

Eric A. Coleman

Monitoring and Sanctioning in the Commons: An Application to Forestry

Ecological Economics 68 (7): 2106–2113.

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2009

Eric A. Coleman and Brian C. Steed

Trust in Private and Common Property Experiments.

Southern Economic Journal 75 (4): 957–75.

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2009

James C. Cox, Elinor Ostrom, James M. Walker, Antonio Jamie Castillo, Eric A. Coleman, Robert Holahan, Michael Schoon, and Brian C. Steed.

An Impact Assessment of Stakeholder Engagement Interventions in
Ugandan Oil Extractives

Key Stakeholder Meeting of Ugandan National Policymakers.

Kampala, Uganda

2017

Project team: Eric A. Coleman, A. Rani Parker, Jacob Manyindo, and Bill Schultz

Experimental Evidence of Collaborative Governance in
Ugandan Oil Extractives.

Gothenburg University.

Gothenburg, Sweden

2016

Project team: Eric Coleman, A. Rani Parker, and Jacob Manyindo.

Experimental Evidence of Collaborative Governance in
Ugandan Oil Extractives

Georgia Institute of Technology.

Atlanta, GA

2016

Project team: Eric Coleman, A. Rani Parker, and Jacob Manyindo.

Transparency and Good Governance: An Experimental Study

University of Innsbruck.

Innsbruck, Austria.

2015

Project team: Alex Severson and Eric A. Coleman

Stakeholder Participation in Natural Resource Management

Interntional Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie).

London, UK

2014

Institutional Collective Action and Local Forest Commons

Humboldt University of Berlin.

Berlin, Germany

2014

Workshop in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems

Linking Household Benefits to Biophysical Properties in the
Study of Forest Commons

Sentinel Landscapes Data Analysis Workshop

Turrialba, Costa Rica

2013

Sponsored by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and held at the
Centro Agronómico Tropical deInvestigación y Enseñanza (CATIE)

Recent Developments in IFRI Research

SESYNC Venture meeting: IFRI Research on Forest Social Ecological Systems
for Actionable Science.

Annapolis, MD

2013

Property Rights and Inequality on the Commons

University of Michigan, College of Natural Resources.

Ann Arbor, MI

2012

Conflict, Cooperation, and Institutional Change on the Commons

University of California, Davis, Department of Environmental Science and Policy.

Davis, CA

2012

Project team: Esther Mwangi and Eric A. Coleman

Property Rights and Common-Pool Resources: Comparative Evidence from
Bolivia, Kenya, Mexico and Uganda

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

Palo Alto, CA

2011

Implications of External Validity for Research on Polycentric and
Complex Adaptive Systems

IAMO Forum 2010: Institutions in Transition: Challenges for New Modes of
Governance.

Halle, Germany

2010

Keynote

A Forest by Any Other Name: Analyzing Institutions beyond Formal Designation

Taiwan Forestry Bureau/National Pingtung University of Science and Technology.

Taipae, Taiwan

2008

Keynote

An Introduction to Game Theoretic Field Experiments

Sofia Institute of Agricultural Economics.

Sofia, Bulgaria

2007

A Socially Informed Electric Vehicle Promotion Framework for Rural Innovation towards Environmental, Social, and Economic Sustainability

FSU Sustainability and Climate Solutions Grant Program. $150,000

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2025 - 2023

Guang Wang, Tian Tang, Eren Erman Ozguven, and Eric A. Coleman

South Asian Smallholder Forests and Other Tree-based Systems: Synthesizing LCLUC Data and Approaches to Foster a Natural Climate Solution that Improves Livelihoods

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Land-Cover and Land Use Change program (NASA LCLUC). $2,100,003

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2025 - 2022

David Skole, Ruth DeFries, Forrest Fleischman, Josh Gray, Aditya Singh, Valerie Thomas, Randolph Wynne, Chhaya Bhanti, Eric A. Coleman, Harry Fischer, Haripriya Gundimeda, Dil Bahadur Khatri, Swampan Mehra, Vijay Ramprasad, Pushpendra Rana, David Roy, Bill Shultz, Parul Srivastava, Runsheng Yin, and Jay Samek

Democracy Moderates the Socioeconomic Impacts of Protected Areas Globally

FSU Council on Research and Creativity, Committee on Faculty Research Support (COFRS). $20,000

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2023

Eric A. Coleman

Planning Plantations: Past Learning, Toward Triple Wins in Carbon, Biodiversity and Livelihoods

United States Agency for International Development, Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (USAID PEER). $78,758

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2021 - 2020

Rajesh Thadani, Forrest Fleischman, Ashwini Chhatre, Pushpendra Rana, Anthony Filipi, Harry Fischer, Eric A. Coleman, and Claudia Rodriguesz Solorzano

Impacts of Artificial Afforestation on the Provision of Ecosystem Services to Rural Communities in India

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Land-Cover and Land Use Change program (NASA LCLUC). $749,999

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2020 - 2018

Forrest Fleischmann, Urs Kreuter, Eric A. Coleman, Burak Güneralp, and Claudia Rodriguez Solorzano

Seventh Biennial Conference on Social Dilemmas

National Science Foundation, Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (NSF SBE). $38,931

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2016

Angela de Oliveira, Eric A. Coleman, and Sarah Jacobson.

An Impact Assessment of Stakeholder Engagement Interventions in Ugandan Oil Extractives

United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID), International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) Transparency and Accountability program. $530,615

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2017 - 2015

A. Rani Parker, Eric A. Coleman, and Jacob Manyindo

Latin American Crime and Democracy

FSU Faculty Research Library Materials Grants (FRLMG). $4,500

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2011

Eric A. Coleman

Travel grant to attend International Association for the Study of Common Property in Hyderabad, India

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI). $3,000

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2011

Eric A. Coleman

Second-Order Sanctioning in Collective Action

FSU Council on Research and Creativity, First Year Assistant Professor Award (FYAP). $17,000

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2010

Eric A. Coleman

Experiments of Trust in Transition Societies–The Case of Bulgaria

National Science Foundation, Political Science Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. $11,999

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2007

Eric A. Coleman

Florida State University

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• Faculty Senate (2021–present).
• Faculty Senate Sustainability Committee (2023–present).
• Faculty Senate Roads Scholar Committee (2022–present).
• Chairperson, Faculty Senate Grievance Committee (2022–2023).
• Faculty Senate (2017–2019).
• Undergraduate Policy Committee (2015–2017)

College of Social Science and Public Policy

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• Director, Global and Public Affairs Living Learning Community (2015–present).
• College Promotion and Tenure Committee (2022–present).
• Faculty Affiliate, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (2022–present).
• Experimental Social Science Research Cluster (2009–present).
• Outside Member, Experimental Social Science Search Committee (2022–2023).
• Social Science Scholars Selection Committee (2022).

Department of Political Science

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• Chair, Public Policy Search Committee (2023–2024).
• Chair, Public Policy, Graduate Studies Committee (2023–present).
• Chair, Public Policy Search Committee (2022–2023).
• Executive Committee (2017–2020).
• Promotion and Tenure Committee (2017–2020).
• Chair, Public Policy, Graduate Studies Committee (2017–2019).
• Chair, Search Committee for 3 Faculty Lines (2017–2018).
• co-Chair, Experimental Social Science Search Committee (2015–2016).
• Chair, Public Policy, Graduate Studies Committee (2014–2015).
• Undergraduate Affairs Committee (2009–2015).
• Executive Committee (2010–2011).

Professional Service

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• Adviser, Swedish Expert Group for Aid Studies (EBA). (2022–2024).
• Guest Editor with Rick Wilson, Journal of Theoretical Politics. (2015)
• Environmental Politics and Policy Section Organizer, Midwest Political Science Association (2014–2015).
• Selection Committee for best paper in Comparative Public Policy, American Political Science Association (2014).
• Occasional Grant Reviewer:
  • Time Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS)
  • National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Occasional Peer Reviewer: