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  • Struggles for Self-Rule

    Beyond State–Society Relations

    by Filippo Sabetti ...
    Series Book 92 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
    People the world over aspire to self-rule, especially when living under domination, conquest, and empire. Inspired by the work of Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom, Filippo Sabetti explores how people attempt, over time, to make the longing for self-government a reality.Struggles for Self-Rule explores key moments in Italian history through a comparative perspective – from the city republics to the ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • The Practice of Constitutional Development

    Vincent Ostrom's Quest to Understand Human Affairs

    by Filippo Sabetti, Donald Lutz, Ronald J. Oakerson, Vincent Ostrom, Roger B. Parks, Audun Sandberg, Edella Schlager, James S. Wunsch0, William Blomquist1 ...
    This edited collection further expands our knowledge about what comprises a successful constitution in both theory and application. Building on the research and analysis of Vincent Ostrom, who as one of America's leading scholars on constitutions has spent a lifetime writing about constitutions in America and overseas.Each essay shows how particular countries, governments, and organizations devise ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Institutional Diversity in Self-Governing Societies

    The Bloomington School and Beyond

    by Filippo Sabetti, Anas Malik, Ion Sterpan, Abigail Sullivan, Scott Yabiku, Abigail York, Paul Dragos Aligica, Rosolino A. Candela, Ronald J. Oakerson, Margaret M. Polski0, Karol Edward Soltan1, Michael A. Fotos III2, Dario Castiglione3, Albert Weale5 ...
    The work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom represents a distinctive contribution to the study of political economy, public policy and administration, collective action, and governance theory. Efforts to present a comprehensive overview of the Bloomington School that grew around the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis (now renamed the Ostrom Workshop), which they founded more than 40 years ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • The Republic of Venice

    De magistratibus et republica Venetorum

    by Gasparo Contarini ...
    Translated by Amanda Murphy, Giuseppe Pezzini ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    At a time when social scientists are increasingly focusing on the reasons why nations fail and democracies die, Filippo Sabetti turns to the opposite issue, asking instead why institutions endure. To do so, he presents Gasparo Contarini’s sixteenth-century description of the Republic of Venice to help modern readers understand what made Venice the longest-lived self-constituted republic.In its ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Civilization and Democracy

    The Salvernini Anthology of Cattaneo's Writings

    by Carlo Cattaneo ...
    Translated by David Gibbons ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    Nineteenth-century Italy is a vast, unexplored territory in the history of modern political thought and liberal democratic theory. Apart from Mazzini, Pareto, and Mosca, the authors of this period are little read, even though their central concerns – the riddle of human liberation, progress, and liberty – are as important today as ever. This volume presents a selection of the writings of Carlo ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • Historical Essay on the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799

    by Vincenzo Cuoco ...
    Translated by David Gibbons ...
    Deeply influenced by Enlightenment writers from Naples and France, Vincenzo Cuoco (1770–1823) was forced into exile for his involvement in the failed Neapolitan revolution of 1799. Living in Milan, he wrote what became one of the nineteenth century’s most important treatises on political revolution.In his Historical Essay on the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799, Cuoco synthesized the work of ... Read more

    $65.59 USD

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  • The Life of the Mind

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    Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa

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