The struggle to constitute and sustain productive orders
Subtitle: Vincent Ostrom's quest to understand human affairs
By: edited by Mark Sproule-Jones, Filippo Sabetti, and Barbara Allen.
Contributors: Ostrom, Vincent, 1919-; Sproule-Jones, Mark, 1941-; Sabetti, Filippo, 1940-; Allen, Barbara, 1953-
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780739126271; 9780739126288
Subjects: Constitutions; Comparative government; Separation of powers; Democracy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Normative and empirical inquiries into systems of governance / Mark Sproule-Jones, Barbara Allen, and Filippo Sabetti; title: Constitutional foundations for a theory of system comparisons / Vincent Ostrom; title: Foundations for a normative assessment of governance; title: The normative and limiting conditions in a polycentric political order / Vincent Ostrom; title: Legal pluralism, polycentricity, and faith-based organizations in global governance / Michael D. McGinnis; title: Challenges to interreligious liberative collective action between Muslims and Christians / Anas Malik; title: Democratization without violence : can political order be achieved through peaceful means? / Filippo Sabetti; title: The man who heated up economic discussion with a stove : Walter Eucken's method of institutional design / Stephan Kuhnert; title: Struggles for polycentric governance in diverse continents; title: Malawi's Lake Chiuta fisheries : intelligent burden-shedding to foster renewable resources stewardship / Jamie Thomson; title: 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; title: Challenges facing "state" building in Burma / Tun Myint; title: American experience in metropolitan governance / Vincent Ostrom.