The Struggle to Constitute and Sustain Productive Orders: Vincent Ostrom's Quest to Understand Human AffairsCountries, governments, and organizations devise constitutions to reflect their visions of governance and rules for their leaders. They 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, they identify and analyze the criteria for successful constitutions in both theory and practice. |
Contents
Normative and Empirical Inquiries into Systems of Governance | 3 |
Constitutional Foundations for a Theory of System Comparisons | 11 |
Foundations for a Normative Assessment of Governance | 27 |
The Normative and Limiting Conditions in a Polycentric Political Order | 29 |
Legal Pluralism Polycentricity and FaithBased Organizations in Global Governance | 45 |
Challenges to Interreligious Liberative Collective Action between Muslims and Christians | 65 |
Democratization without Violence Can Political Order be Achieved through Peaceful Means? | 85 |
The Man Who Heated Up Economic Discussion with a Stove Walter Euckens Method of Institutional Design | 111 |
Struggles for Polycentric Governance in Diverse Continents | 123 |
Malawis Lake Chiuta Fisheries Intelligent BurdenShedding to Foster Renewable Resources Stewardship | 125 |
From the Cheyenne Way to the Chilean Way of Political Reconciliation and Impunity A Retrospective on Political Architecture Political Culture and I... | 151 |
Challenges Facing State Building in Burma | 183 |
American Experience in Metropolitan Governance | 201 |
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Contributors | 225 |
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