This revised and expanded third edition extends Ostrom’s analysis to account for the most resent developments in American politics, including those of the Clinton and Bush administrations.
ForewordAllenBarbaraPreface to the Third EditionThe Crisis of ConfidenceThe Persistent Crisis in the Study of Public AdministrationThe Crisis as a Paradigm ProblemThe Paradigm Problem in Public AdministrationThe Intellectual Mainstream in American Public AdministrationWilson's Point of DepartureWeber's Theory of BureaucracyThe Research Tradition in American Public AdministrationGulick's Anomalous OrthodoxySimon's ChallengeThe Work of the Contemporary Political EconomistsModel of ManStructure of EventsDecision-Making ArrangementsA Theory of Democratic Administration: The Rejected AlternativeSome Anomalous Threads of ThoughtHamilton and Madison's Theory of Democratic AdministrationTocqueville's Analysis of Democratic AdministrationThe Choice of Alternative FuturesSome Opportunity Costs in the Choice of ParadigmA Science of Association as Knowledge of Form and ReformThe Use of Different Approaches to Policy AnalysisConclusionThe Continuing Constitutional Crises in American GovernmentOstromVincentAllenBarbaraWatergate as a Crisis in Constitutional GovernmentExtending Prerogatives and Abandoning ResponsibilitiesA New MillenniumIntellectual Crises and BeyondOstromVincentAllenBarbaraThe American Intellectual CrisisA Copernican Turn?Challenging Ways of ThinkingNotesReferencesIndex
Vincent Ostrom is Founding Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Indiana University.
Barbara Allen is Professor of Political Science at Carleton College and the author of Harmonizing Earth with Heaven: Tocqueville on Covenant & the Democratic Revolution.