Practice of Constitutional Development (eBook)

Vincent Ostrom's Quest to Understand Human Affairs

Barbara Allen, Filippo Sabetti, Mark Sproule-Jones (Herausgeber)

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2008
272 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4616-3445-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

1 Contents2 PrefacePart 3 I. IntroductionChapter 4 1. Institutions as Human ArtifactsPart 5 II. Selected Writings of Vincent OstromChapter 6 2. Constitutional Level of Analysis: Problems and ProspectsChapter 7 3. Federalism, Polycentricity, and Res Publica: Some Reflections on the American Experiments in Republican GovernmentChapter 8 4. Beyond Public ChoicePart 9 III. New Directions in the Development of Natural ResourcesChapter 10 5. Experience Guides Theory: "Discovering" the Political Theory of a Compound RepublicChapter 11 6. Crafting Water Constitutions in CaliforniaChapter 12 7. Constitutional Choice and Water Governance in the Western United StatesChapter 13 8. Public Administration: An Intellectual Crisis or a New Direction?Part 14 IV. New Directions in Local and Regional GovernanceChapter 15 9. Local Public Economies and Metropolitan Governance: A Research Program RetrospectiveChapter 16 10. Metropolitan Organization and PoliceChapter 17 11. Sources of Order and Disorder in Africa: Local Governance in Statecentric RegimesChapter 18 12. Constituting a New Order in the European North19 Index20 About the Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.12.2008
• Co-Autor: William Blomquist, Donald Lutz, Ronald J. Oakerson, Vincent Ostrom, Roger B. Parks, Filippo Sabetti, Audun Sandberg, Edella Schlager, James S. Wunsch
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-4616-3445-8 / 1461634458
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4616-3445-4 / 9781461634454