An introduction to polycentricity and governance / Mark Stephan, Graham Marshall, Michael McGinnis -- Seeing polycentrically : examining governance situations using a polycentricity lens / William A. Blomquist and Nadine Jenny Shirin Schroeder -- Foundational aspects of polycentric governance : overarching rules, social-problem characteristics and heterogeneity / Andreas Thiel and Christine Moser-Priewich -- Evolutionary institutional change and performance in polycentric governance / Andreas Thiel, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Elizabeth Baldwin -- Cooperation in polycentric governance systems / Tom Koontz -- Conflict and conflict resolution in polycentric governance systems / Tanya Heikkila -- Competition in polycentric governance systems / Dustin E. Garrick, Sergio Villamayor-Tomas -- Assessing performance in polycentric governance system interactions / Tom Koontz, Tanya Heikkila, Dustin E. Garrick, and Sergio Villamayor-Tomas -- Polycentricity and citizenship in environmental governance / Graham Marshall and Anas Malik -- The Faustian bargain : power-sharing, constitutions, and the practice of polycentricity in governance / Vlad Tarko, Edella Schlager, Mark Lutter -- Practicing polycentric governance / Bryan Bruns.