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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION
Volume 57, Issue 2, Pages 173-188Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2004.06.015
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Vincent Ostrom; polycentric public finance; federalism; municipal services industry; self-governance
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This paper addresses Vincent Ostrom's treatment of self-governance, polycentrism, and federalism through which he has generated a coherent vision of political economy. After examining some ontological and epistemological presuppositions that are central to his work, the rest of the paper explores four topical areas: (1) his examination of knowledge, belief, and the requisites for good civic practice; (2) his conceptualization of a polycentric public economy; (3) his articulation of the problem of public administration through his conceptualization of a municipal services industry; (4) his treatment of federalism as a compound republic rather than simply a form of administrative decentralization. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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