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The Practice of Constitutional Development: Vincent Ostrom's Quest to Understand Human Affairs

The Practice of Constitutional Development: Vincent Ostrom's Quest to Understand Human Affairs
Author: Filippo Sabetti;Barbara Allen;Mark Sproule-Jones;William Blomquist;Donald Lutz
Price: $126.00
ISBN-10: 1461634458
ISBN-13: 9781461634454
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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 constitutions to reflect their visions of governance and sets of rules for their leaders. On a higher theoretical level, the contributors emphasize the importance of choosing the rules of the political game in order to determine the nature of the game itself. Extending Ostrom's intellectual quest to solve constitutional dilemmas, the scholars gathered here discuss a wide variety of issues, ranging from the problems of water scarcity and local public economies in Africa to the prospect of a new political order in the European North.