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“vincent ostrom”

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  • The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration

    by Vincent Ostrom ...
    Rethinking governance: Where democracy meets administration.This revised and expanded third edition extends Ostrom’s analysis to account for the most resent developments in American politics, including those of the Clinton and Bush administrations.First published in 1973, The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration remains one of the most influential critiques of the administrative ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Political Theory of a Compound Republic

    Designing the American Experiment

    by Vincent Ostrom, Barbara Allen ...
    The Political Theory of a Compound Republic examines the foundation of American constitutional design expressed in theFederalist. Through meticulous textual analysis, the logical principles of federalism-the extended and compound republic envisioned by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton-are revealed as thirteen propositions broadly applicable to any effort to design the institutions of a self ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Failure Of The Centralized State

    Institutions And Selfgovernance In Africa

    by James Wunsch, Dele Olowu, John W Harbeson, Vincent Ostrom ...
    This book is an outcome of the workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis, held in Indiana, during the 1985/86. It seeks to explains why the centralized African state has failed and discusses the breakdown of social processes indirectly caused by the policies of the centralized state. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy

    Polycentricity in Public Administration and Political Science

    by Paul Dragos Aligica, Elinor Ostrom, Vincent Ostrom, Charles M. Tiebout, Robert Warren ...
    Elinor (Lin) Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her pathbreaking research on "economic governance, especially the commons"; but she also made important contributions to several other fields of political economy and public policy. The range of topics she covered and the multiple methods she used might convey the mistaken impression that her body of work is ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy

    Resource Governance

    by Gwen Arnold, Michael Cox, Roy Gardner, Elinor Ostrom, Vincent Ostrom, Edella Schlager, Sergio Villamayor-Tomas, William Blomquist, Daniel H. Cole, Michael D. McGinnis0 ...
    In addition to winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her path-breaking research on “economic governance, especially the commons,” Elinor (Lin) Ostrom also made important contributions to other fields of political economy and public policy. This four-volume compendium of papers written by Lin (often with coauthors, most notably her husband, Vincent), along with papers by others ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy

    A Framework for Policy Analysis

    by Krister Andersson, Floriane Clement, Tom Evans, Richard C. Feiock, Burnell C. Fisher, Clark Gibson, Robert Holahan, Miranda Hutten, Prakash Kashwan, Sarah Mincey, Elinor Ostrom, Vincent Ostrom, Margaret Polski, Amy Poteete, Esteban Ruiz-Ballesteros, Sujai Shivakumar, Susan Stewart, Jessica Vogt, Daniel H. Cole, Michael D. McGinnis, Eduardo S. Brondizio ...
    In addition to winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her path-breaking research on “economic governance, especially the commons,” Elinor (Lin) Ostrom also made important contributions to other fields of political economy and public policy. This four-volume compendium of papers written by Lin (often with coauthors, most notably her husband, Vincent), along with papers by others ... Read more

    $47.79 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

  • Conversations with Tocqueville

    The Global Democratic Revolution in the Twenty-first Century

    by Elinor Ostrom, Barbara Allen, Charles A. Reilly, Gustavo Gordillo de Anda, Krister Andersson, Frederic Fransen, James S. Wunsch, Tun Myint0, Jianxun Wang1, Reiji Matsumoto2, Aurelian Craiutu4, Peter Rutland5 ...
    The questions and issues raised by Tocqueville in his monumental studies of France and America are just as crucial for understanding the evolution of democracy in the West and the development of democracy in the non-western world. They clearly show the breadth of Tocqueville's contributions to the development of modern social sciences. Among the questions addressed by Tocqueville were: How does ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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