The political theory of a compound republic
Subtitle: designing the American experiment
By: Vincent Ostrom
Edition: 3rd ed., rev. and enlarged
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780739121191; 9780739121207
Subjects: Federalist; Representative government and representation -- United States; Federal government -- United States; Democracy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-273) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Seeking to understand principles of governance; title: Point of departure, basic assumptions, and first principles; title: Constitutional choice; title: Some rudiments of political design; title: A republican remedy for the republican disease; title: Federal structures and their implications; title: The distribution of authority in the organization of the national government; title: Constitutional choice and constitutional development / Barbara Allen and Vincent Ostrom; title: The twentieth-century break with The federalist tradition / Barbara Allen and Vincent Ostrom; title: The constitutional level of analysis : a challenge / Vincent Ostrom and Barbara Allen