Political Theory of a Compound Republic

Vincent Ostrom is Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of Political Science and founding director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, Bloomington.Barbara Allen is professor, former chair of the Department of Political Science, and former Director of Women's Studies at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 PrefaceChapter 3 Two Different Approaches to the Design of Public OrderChapter 4 Chapter 1. Introduction: Seeking to Understand Principles of GovernancePart 5 Part I. A Political Theory of a Compound RepublicChapter 6 Chapter 2. Point of Departure, Basic Assumptions, and First PrinciplesChapter 7 Chapter 3. Constitutional ChoiceChapter 8 Chapter 4. Some Rudiments of Political DesignChapter 9 Chapter 5. A Republican Remedy for the Republican DiseaseChapter 10 Chapter 6. Federal Structures and Their ImplicationsChapter 11 Chapter 7. The Distribution of Authority in the Organization of the National GovernmentPart 12 Part II. More Than Two Centuries Later: Reflections on the American Experiments in Constitutional ChoiceChapter 13 Chapter 8. Constitutional Choice and Constitutional DevelopmentChapter 14 Chapter 9. The Twentieth-Century Break withThe Federalist TraditionChapter 15 Chapter 10. The Constitutional Level of Analysis: A Challenge

Vincent Ostrom is well known as a profound and philosophical student of American government. This revised version of his basic book will be welcomed by almost everyone. People who are already familiar with his work and people who are not, but who should be will learn a good deal from reading this improved version. Not only will they learn, but they will probably enjoy it. It is not only profound but also very well written.