The Practice of Constitutional Development Vincent Ostrom's Quest to Understand Human Affairs

by Sabetti, Filippo; Allen, Barbara; Sproule-Jones, Mark; Blomquist, William; Lutz, Donald; Oakerson, Ronald J.; Ostrom, Vincent; Parks, Roger B.; Sabetti, Filippo; Sandberg, Audun; Schlager, Edella; Wunsch, James S.

• ISBN13: 9780739126318
• ISBN10: 0739126318
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-16
• Publisher: Lexington Books

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. 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction
Institutions as Human Artifacts	p. 3
Selected Writings of Vincent Ostrom
Constitutional Level of Analysis: Problems and Prospects	p. 15
Federalism, Polycentricity, and Res Publica: Some Reflections on the American Experiments in Republican Government	p. 31
Beyond Public Choice	p. 59
New Directions in the Development of Natural Resources
Experience Guides Theory: "Discovering" the Political Theory of a Compound Republic	p. 73
Crafting Water Constitutions in California	p. 105
Constitutional Choice and Water Governance in the Western United States	p. 129
Public Administration: An Intellectual Crisis or a New Direction?	p. 151
New Directions in Local and Regional Governance
Local Public Economies and Metropolitan Governance: A Research Program Retrospective	p. 167
Metropolitan Organization and Police	p. 183
Sources of Order and Disorder in Africa: Local Governance in State-Centric Regimes	p. 203
Constituting a New Order in the European North	p. 227
Index	p. 247
Contributors	p. 259
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