Public Entrepreneurship, Citizenship, and Self-Governance (Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society)
Cambridge University Press, 8/16/2018
EAN 9781316637012, ISBN10: 1316637018
Paperback, 236 pages, 22.7 x 15.1 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
In this book Paul Dragos Aligica revisits the theory of political self-governance in the context of recent developments in behavioral economics and political philosophy that have challenged the foundations of this theory. Building on the work of the 'Bloomington School' created by Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom and Public Choice political economy co-founder Vincent Ostrom, Aligica presents a fresh conceptualization of the key processes at the core of democratic-liberal governance systems involving civic competence and public entrepreneurship. The result is not only a re-assessment and re-articulation of the theories constructed by the Bloomington School of Public Choice, but also a new approach to several cutting-edge discussions relevant to governance studies and applied institutional theory, such as the debates generated by the recent waves of populism, paternalism and authoritarianism.
Introduction
Part I. Public Entrepreneurship
1. Public entrepreneurship, competitive governance and polycentricity
2. Entrepreneurship and collective action
3. Voluntary actions and institutions
charting the territory
Part II. Citizenship
4. Citizenship, political competence and civics
the Ostromian perspective
5. From institutionalism to models of social agents
citizenship in institutionalist context
6. Citizens' competence, self-governance and the new epistocratic paternalism
Part III. Self-Governance
7. Anarchy, statism and liberalism
the self-governance alternative
8. Conservatism, interventionism and social evolution
the self-governance alternative
Conclusions.