Paul Dragos Aligica is Senior Research Fellow at the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Professor of Administrative Sciences at the University of Bucharest. Peter J. Boettke is Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University and the Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center. Vlad Tarko is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Economy and Moral Science at University of Arizona.
* Introduction
* Acknowledgments
* Part I: A Distinctive Perspective on Governance: The Building Blocks
* Chapter 1: Classical Liberalism: Delineating Its Theory of Governance
* Chapter 2: Function, Structure, and Process at the Private-Public
Interface
* Chapter 3: Dynamic Governance: The Polycentrism Process and Knowledge
Processes
* Part II: Public Choice and Public Administration: The Confluence
* Chapter 4: Public Administration and Public Choice: Charting the
Field
* Chapter 5: Public Choice, Public Administration, and Self-Governance:
The Ostromian Confluence
* Chapter 6: Heterogeneity, Coproduction, and Polycentric Governance:
The Ostroms' Public Choice Institutionalism Revisited
* Part III: Framing the Applied Level: Themes, Issue Areas, and Cases
* Chapter 7: Metropolitan Governance: Polycentric Solutions for Complex
Problems
* Chapter 8: Independent Regulatory Agencies and Their Reform: An
Exercise in Institutional Imagination
* Chapter 9: Polycentric Stakeholder Analysis: Corporate Governance and
Corporate Social Responsibility
* Conclusions: Governance and Public Management: A Vindication of the
Classical-Liberal Perspective?
