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The Practice of Constitutional Development

Vincent Ostrom's Quest to Understand Human Affairs

von: Filippo Sabetti, Barbara Allen, Mark Sproule-Jones, William Blomquist, Donald Lutz, Ronald J. Oakerson, Vincent Ostrom, Roger B. Parks, Audun Sandberg, Edella Schlager, James S. Wunsch
36,99 €
Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	16.12.2008
ISBN/EAN:	9781461634454
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	272

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Titelbeschreibung

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.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

Each essay shows how particular countries, governments, and organizations devise constitutions to reflect their visions of governance and sets of rules for their leaders. Using the methods and writing of Vincent Ostrom, contributors further expand our knowledge about what makes up a successful constitution in both theory and in practice.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Contents
 2 Preface
 Part 3 I. Introduction
 Chapter 4 1. Institutions as Human Artifacts
 Part 5 II. Selected Writings of Vincent Ostrom
 Chapter 6 2. Constitutional Level of Analysis: Problems and Prospects
 Chapter 7 3. Federalism, Polycentricity, and Res Publica: Some Reflections on the American Experiments in Republican Government
 Chapter 8 4. Beyond Public Choice
 Part 9 III. New Directions in the Development of Natural Resources
 Chapter 10 5. Experience Guides Theory: "Discovering" the Political Theory of a Compound Republic
 Chapter 11 6. Crafting Water Constitutions in California
 Chapter 12 7. Constitutional Choice and Water Governance in the Western United States
 Chapter 13 8. Public Administration: An Intellectual Crisis or a New Direction?
 Part 14 IV. New Directions in Local and Regional Governance
 Chapter 15 9. Local Public Economies and Metropolitan Governance: A Research Program Retrospective
 Chapter 16 10. Metropolitan Organization and Police
 Chapter 17 11. Sources of Order and Disorder in Africa: Local Governance in Statecentric Regimes
 Chapter 18 12. Constituting a New Order in the European North
 19 Index
 20 About the Contributors

Autorenportrait

Barbara Allen is professor, former chair of the Department of Political Science, and former Director of Women's Studies at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. Filippo Sabetti is professor of political science at McGill University. Mark Sproule-Jones is V.K. Copps Professor of political science at McMaster University in Canada.