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The Practice of Constitutional Development
Vincent Ostrom's Quest to Understand Human Affairs
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2008
Summary
This edited collection further expands our knowledge about what comprises a successful constitution in both theory and application. Building on the research and analysis of Vincent Ostrom, who as one of America's leading scholars on constitutions has spent a lifetime writing about constitutions in America and overseas. Each essay shows how particular countries, governments, and organizations devise constitutions to reflect their visions of governance and sets of rules for their leaders. On a higher theoretical level, the contributors emphasize the importance of choosing the rules of the political game in order to determine the nature of the game itself. Extending Ostrom's intellectual quest to solve constitutional dilemmas, the scholars gathered here discuss a wide variety of issues, ranging from the problems of water scarcity and local public economies in Africa to the prospect of a new political order in the European North.
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Copyright year
2008
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2631-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-3445-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
261
Product type
Edited Book
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Preface No access
1. Institutions as Human Artifacts Filippo Sabetti, Barbara Allen, and Mark Sproule-Jones No access
2. Constitutional Level of Analysis: Problems and Prospects Vincent Ostrom No access
3. Federalism, Polycentricity, and Res Publica: Some Reflections on the American Experiments in Republican Government Vincent Ostrom No access
4. Beyond Public Choice Vincent Ostrom No access
5. Experience Guides Theory: "Discovering" the Political Theory of a Compound Republic Barbara Allen and Donald Lutz No access
6. Crafting Water Constitutions in California William Blomquist No access
7. Constitutional Choice and Water Governance in the Western United States Edella Schlager No access
8. Public Administration: An Intellectual Crisis or a New Direction? Mark Sproule-Jones No access
9. Local Public Economies and Metropolitan Governance: A Research Program Retrospective Ronald J. Oakerson and Roger B. Parks No access
10. Metropolitan Organization and Police Roger B. Parks No access
11. Sources of Order and Disorder in Africa: Local Governance in State-Centric Regimes James S. Wunsch No access
12. Constituting a New Order in the European North Audun Sandberg No access
