The constitution of good societies / edited by Karol Edward Sołtan and Stephen L. Elkin.
1996
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Title
The constitution of good societies / edited by Karol Edward Sołtan and Stephen L. Elkin.
Published
University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1996]
Copyright
©1996
Call Number
JC330.15 C68 1996
ISBN
0271015640 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271015659 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0271015659 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
viii, 215 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)33818712
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Imagination, Political Competence, and Institutions / Karol Edward Soltan
1
Pt. 1
Human Capabilities and Institutional Design
19
1Covenants, Collective Action, and Common-Pool Resources / Elinor Ostrom
23
2Constitutional Choice, Rational Ignorance, and the Limits of Reason / Viktor J. Vanberg James M. Buchanan
39
3From Irrationality to Autonomy: Two Sciences of Institutional Design / John S. Dryzek
57
4Institution Building and Human Nature / Karol Edward Soltan
76
Pt. 2
Conceptions of the Good Society
101
5How to Make a Good Society / Charles W. Anderson
103
6The Constitution of a Good Society: The Case of the Commercial Republic / Stephen L. Elkin
118
7Speculative Theory and Regime Alternatives: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism / Gar Alperovitz
146
8The Political Institutions of the Good Society / Philip Green
164
Conclusion: Judging the Good Society / Stephen L. Elkin
186
Index
207
Contributors
216