Vincent Ostrom

The Quest to Understand Human Affairs

Essays on Collective, Constitutional, and Epistemic Choice
Herausgeber: Allen, Barbara

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Produktbeschreibung

The second volume of The Quest to Understand Human Affairs presents thirty-six previously unpublished manuscripts written by Vincent Ostrom, cofounder of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. The essays are divided among three parts: Constitutional Choice, Epistemic Choice, and The Quest for Understanding and the Future of Democratic Self-Governance. Part I, Constitutional Choice, includes studies on public sector performance and the constitutional dilemmas facing the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the North American "New World" of US constitutionalism, and the United States of Mexico. In the essays of Part II, Ostrom turns to the foundational ideas on which the institutions of a particular culture rest. He raises questions about the methodologies of the social sciences and insists that we return to "basic questions" in our search for institutional forms that will liberate human communities. Part III offers the reader a colloquy on self-governance in which Ostrom's speeches and presentations on a variety of twenty-first-century issues are supplemented with letters and memos between Ostrom and visiting scholars and students. These remarkable works not only offer specialists insight into developments in the fields of institutional analysis, resource governance, policy and administration-during the second half of the twentieth century and first decade of the new millennium-but also speak to general readers about worldwide transformations in democracies and human and environment relations as well as the enduring challenge of sustaining just, productive political orders. The Quest to Understand Human Affairs is introduced with a foreword by Nobel Laureate and co-founder of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Elinor Ostrom, with a preface by the editor of the volume, political theorist Barbara Allen.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 686
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 977g
• ISBN-13: 9780739168110
• ISBN-10: 0739168118
• Artikelnr.: 34442351

Autorenporträt

Vincent Ostrom is the founding director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of political science at Indiana University in Bloomington. Barbara Allen is professor of political science at Carleton College.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Elinor Ostrom Preface PART I: CONSTITUTIONAL CHOICE David Hume
as a Political Analyst The Individual and the Constitutional Order in the
American Federal Republic Constitutional Choice in Postcolonial Polities:
The Federal Republic of Nigeria The Challenge of Federalism Guidance,
Control, and Performance in the Public Sector Some Conjectures about the
Shape of the Political Science to Come Buchanan's Opening to Constitutional
Choice and Meta Levels of Analysis Constitutional Choice in the Spanish New
World Federalism in the Affairs of Everyday Life The Challenge Facing the
Mexican Revolution in Its Third Century PART II: EPISTEMIC CHOICE Political
Characteristics of the Pacific Northwest: A Challenge to Research-The
Problem of Method Freedom and Organization Implications of Epistemic Choice
for Political Science Methodologies Federalism and Consociationalism:
Competing or Complementary Approaches? Comments Conceptualizing the Nature
and Magnitude of the Task of Institutional Analysis and Development
Culture, Liberation Movements, and Human Development Some Ontological and
Epistemological Puzzles in Policy Analysis Interpreting Social Experiments:
An Agenda for Critical Reflections and Inquiry about a Research Program in
Comparative Institutional Analysis and Development Great Experiments and
the Welfare State: Basic Paradigmatic Challenges To the Readers of the
Chinese Translation [of The Meaning of American Federalism] PART III THE
QUEST FOR UNDERSTANDING AND THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRATIC SELF-GOVERNANCE A
Continuing Colloquy on Self-Governance Democracy and Self-Governance The
Inevitability of Democracy Some Requisites for Understanding Viable
Constitutional Designs Memos to Colleagues and Students Workshop Analytics
and Tocquevillian Analytics Experiments in Constitutional Choice The Use of
Theory to Study Problems of Institutional Analysis and Design Studying
Democracy in America: Learning to be Self-Governing by Vincent Ostrom and
Barbara Allen Democratic Transformations: From the Struggle for Democracy
to Self-Governance? by Michael McGinnis and Vincent Ostrom Federalism and
the Exercise of Self-Governing Capabilities Rethinking Federalism The
Spirit of Federalism What is Federalism? A Search for Meaning
Self-Government and Federalism Revisiting Public Administration and
Democratic Governance Political Theory and Public Administration Syracuse
Notes: How Do We Conceptualize the Meaning of the American Experiment? Some
Developments in the Study of Market Choice, Public Choice, and
Institutional Choice The Continuing Challenge of Constitutional Choice Why
Were There So Many Constitutional Failures in the Twentieth Century? An
Assessment of Failure and the Challenge Ahead Citizen-Sovereigns: The
Implications of Hamilton's Query and Tocqueville's Conjecture about the
Democratic Revolution Index