Ostrom, Vincent 1919-2012

The intellectual crisis in American public administration by Vincent Ostrom( )

57 editions published between 1753 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 3,141 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This book examines various constitutional crises the nation has experienced since Watergate. This revised and expanded third edition extends this analysis to account for the most recent developments in American politics, up to and including the Clinton and Bush administrations."--Jacket

The drama of Russian political history : system against individuality by A. V Obolonskiĭ( )

12 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 2,078 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Obolonsky has undertaken the formidable task of reinterpreting Russian history from the Time of Troubles to the dismantling of the Soviet system under Gorbachev and Yeltsin and others. He seeks to understand the present and assess the social trends that will shape the future through a careful reconsideration of Russia's past." "Obolonsky structures his analysis of historical trends around two opposing concepts - a system-centered understanding of social existence in which individuals are viewed as "cogs" functioning for the sake of the whole, and a liberal person-centered paradigm in which society seeks to promote the development of the individual. He distrusts all monistic explanations, preferring to utilize a variety of variables - ethical, economic, sociopsychological, cultural - to explain Russian history, and presenting its course as a long-term and ongoing struggle between two competing models of life. Defining several critical junctures from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, Obolonsky focuses on these "historical crossroads", at which the course of history might have been changed either in favor of a person-centered way of life or a system-centered trajectory. Currently, Obolonsky maintains, Russia is again at a challenging crossroad, and the future is still open to each of these two different paths." "Students of Russian history, politics, and culture, and also those interested in the broader issues of twentieth-century society will find this informative magnum opus of a senior Russian scholar insightful and thought-provoking."--Jacket

Understanding urban government; metropolitan reform reconsidered by Robert L Bish( Book )

15 editions published between 1973 and 1979 in English and Undetermined and held by 591 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In her haste to flee the place before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect, Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper

The political theory of a compound republic : designing the American experiment by Vincent Ostrom( Book )

23 editions published between 1986 and 2008 in English and held by 579 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Political Theory of a Compound Republic presents the essential logic of James Madison and Alexander Hamilton's design of limited, distributed, constitutional authority proposed inThe Federalist. Two revised and expanded ensuing chapters show how the idea of constitutional choice has been employed since the adoption of the 1789 Constitution of the United States. A new concluding chapter questions commonly accepted beliefs about sovereign nation-states and considers governance from the perspective of twenty-first century 'citizen-sovereigns.'

Comparing urban service delivery systems : structure and performance( Book )

12 editions published in 1977 in English and held by 542 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The meaning of American federalism : constituting a self-governing society by Vincent Ostrom( Book )

16 editions published between 1990 and 1994 in English and held by 488 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"A publication of the Center for Self-Governance." Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-288) and index

The meaning of democracy and the vulnerability of democracies : a response to Tocqueville's challenge by Vincent Ostrom( Book )

12 editions published between 1997 and 2000 in English and held by 439 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

We struggle in the modern age to preserve individual freedoms and social self-government in the face of large and powerful governments that lay claim to the symbols and language of democracy, according to Vincent Ostrom. Arguing that democratic systems are characterized by self-governing--not state- governed--societies, Ostrom contends that the nature and strength of individual relationships and self-organizing behavior are critical to the creation and survival of a democratic political system. Ostrom begins with a basic contradiction identified by Alexis de Tocqueville. De Tocqueville suggested that if citizens acted on the basis of their natural inclinations they would expect government to provide for them and take care of their needs. Yet these conditions contradict what it means to be self-governing. Ostrom explores the social and cultural context necessary for a democratic system to flourish emphasizing the important role of ideas and the use of language in defining and understanding political life. Discussing differences in the ideas about social organization among various cultural and intellectual traditions, he considers the difficulties encountered over time in building democratic societies in America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. He outlines lessons from these experiences for the efforts to build democracy in the developing world and the countries emerging from communism. Based on a lifetime of thinking about the social conditions necessary to support a democracy, this book makes a significant contribution to the recent discussion about civil society and the fragility of our formal and informal social institutions and will be of interest to social scientists, historians and all readers concerned with the state of democracy in the modern world.--

Guidance, control, and evaluation in the public sector : the Bielefeld interdisciplinary project by Franz-Xaver Kaufmann( Book )

11 editions published between 1985 and 1986 in English and held by 288 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Rethinking institutional analysis and development : issues, alternatives, and choices by Vincent Ostrom( Book )

31 editions published between 1988 and 1993 in English and held by 237 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Water & politics by Vincent Ostrom( Book )

11 editions published between 1953 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 220 WorldCat member libraries worldwide