Introduction
Acknowledgments
Part I: A Distinctive Perspective on Governance: The Building
Blocks
Chapter 1: Classical Liberalism: Delineating Its Theory of
Governance
Chapter 2: Function, Structure, and Process at the Private-Public
Interface
Chapter 3: Dynamic Governance: The Polycentrism Process and
Knowledge Processes
Part II: Public Choice and Public Administration: The
Confluence
Chapter 4: Public Administration and Public Choice: Charting the
Field
Chapter 5: Public Choice, Public Administration, and
Self-Governance: The Ostromian Confluence
Chapter 6: Heterogeneity, Coproduction, and Polycentric Governance:
The Ostroms' Public Choice Institutionalism Revisited
Part III: Framing the Applied Level: Themes, Issue Areas, and
Cases
Chapter 7: Metropolitan Governance: Polycentric Solutions for
Complex Problems
Chapter 8: Independent Regulatory Agencies and Their Reform: An
Exercise in Institutional Imagination
Chapter 9: Polycentric Stakeholder Analysis: Corporate Governance
and Corporate Social Responsibility
Conclusions: Governance and Public Management: A Vindication of the
Classical-Liberal Perspective?
Paul Dragos Aligica is Senior Research Fellow at the F. A. Hayek
Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
at Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Professor of
Administrative Sciences at the University of Bucharest.
Peter J. Boettke is Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George
Mason University and the Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for
Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the
Mercatus Center.
Vlad Tarko is Assistant Professor of Economics at Dickinson College
"This book offers a bold new framework for studying public
administration. It incorporates the best ideas that have been
developed in the political economy tradition and applies them in
innovative ways to perennial problems about governance and the
state. A must-read." -- David Skarbek, Brown University
"This is a marvelous and sophisticated restatement of the classical
liberal program. Aligica, Boettke, and Tarko demonstrate that
classical liberalism, rather than being a doctrine of
anti-government, is a sophisticated theory of public governance-one
based on the appreciation of individual diversity, institutional
complexity, and the resources of civil society." -- Gerald Gaus,
James E. Rogers Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona
"Paul Aligica, Peter Boettke and Vlad Tarko take us on an
illuminating theoretical and empirical journey in the study of
public governance more generally. They explore the multiple layers
of both the economic and political institutional framework that can
make a society work well and the social choice processes that are
available to meet the challenges of polycentric governance and
equity. They combine a fresh analytical and historical perspective
on
understanding the meaning and limits of self-governance and the
experience of collective coordination and administration through a
careful analysis of themes, issues areas and cases that go beyond
the American
case. In so doing, they offer a compelling and original account of
the evolving relations between classical liberalism and modernity,
equity and governance, and democratic versus bureaucratic
administration" -- Filippo Sabetti, McGill University
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