The struggle to constitute and sustain productive orders : Vincent Ostrom's quest to understand human affairs / edited by Mark Sproule-Jones, Barbara Allen, and Filippo Sabetti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ostrom, Vincent, 1919-2012.

Sproule-Jones, Mark, 1941-

Allen, Barbara, 1953-

Sabetti, Filippo, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutions.

Comparative government.

Separation of powers.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

ix, 228 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2008]

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.

Contents:

Normative and empirical inquiries into systems of governance / Mark Sproule-Jones, Barbara Allen, and Filippo Sabetti

Constitutional foundations for a theory of system comparisons / Vincent Ostrom

Foundations for a normative assessment of governance

The normative and limiting conditions in a polycentric political order / Vincent Ostrom

Legal pluralism, polycentricity, and faith-based organizations in global governance / Michael D. McGinnis

Challenges to interreligious liberative collective action between Muslims and Christians / Anas Malik

Democratization without violence : can political order be achieved through peaceful means? / Filippo Sabetti

The man who heated up economic discussion with a stove : Walter Eucken's method of institutional design / Stephan Kuhnert

Struggles for polycentric governance in diverse continents

Malawi's Lake Chiuta fisheries : intelligent burden-shedding to foster renewable resources stewardship / Jamie Thomson

From the Cheyenne way to the Chilean way (of political reconciliation and impunity) : a retrospective on political architecture, political culture, and institutional design / Brian Loveman

Challenges facing "state" building in Burma / Tun Myint

American experience in metropolitan governance / Vincent Ostrom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739126271

073912627X

9780739126288

0739126288

OCLC:

212908896