The Struggle to Constitute and Sustain Productive Orders Vincent Ostrom's Quest to Understand Human Affairs

by Sproule-Jones, Mark; Allen, Barbara; Sabetti, Filippo; Kuhnert, Stephan; Loveman, Brian; Malik, Anas; McGinnis, Michael D.; Myint, Tun; Ostrom, Vincent; Sabetti, Filippo; Thomson, Jamie

• ISBN13: 9780739126271
• ISBN10: 073912627X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-30
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Countries, governments, and organizations devise constitutions to reflect their visions of governance and rules for leaders, which vary considerably in both formats and consequences. Disputes over constitutions can lead to fights, contests, debates, and more. Vincent Ostrom is one of America's leading scholars on constitutions and has spent a lifetime researching, analyzing, and writing about constitutions in America and overseas. He provides methods to judge and to implement constitutions as citizens struggle with their formulation. In this book, scholars from around the world add to this intellectual quest of massive scholarly and practical importance. Using the research and methodology pioneered by Ostrom, scholars identify and analyze the criteria for successful constitutions in both theory and practice.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction
Normative and Empirical Inquiries into Systems of Governance	p. 3
Constitutional Foundations for a Theory of System Comparisons	p. 11
Foundations for a Normative Assessment of Governance
The Normative and Limiting Conditions in a Polycentric Political Order	p. 29
Legal Pluralism, Polycentricity, and Faith-Based Organizations in Global Governance	p. 45
Challenges to Interreligious Liberative Collective Action between Muslims and Christians	p. 65
Democratization without Violence: Can Political Order be Achieved through Peaceful Means?	p. 85
The Man Who Heated Up Economic Discussion with a Stove: Walter Eucken's Method of Institutional Design	p. 111
Struggles for Polycentric Governance in Diverse Continents
Malawi's Lake Chiuta Fisheries: Intelligent Burden-Shedding to Foster Renewable Resources Stewardship	p. 125
From the Cheyenne Way to the Chilean Way (of Political Reconciliation and Impunity): A Retrospective on Political Architecture, Political Culture, and Institutional Design	p. 151
Challenges Facing "State" Building in Burma	p. 183
American Experience in Metropolitan Governance	p. 201
Index	p. 217
Contributors	p. 225
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