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- Title
Vincent Ostrom's revolutionary science of association.
- Authors
Fotos, Michael
- Abstract
Vincent Ostrom challenged epistemic choices at the foundation of modern political science and proposed an alternative conceptualization of democracy based on a theory of federalism he derived from The Federalist and Tocqueville's Democracy in America. This essay examines Vincent Ostrom's critique of contemporary mainstream political theorizing, relates his original theoretical work to the empirical research Elinor Ostrom, other colleagues, and he conducted, advised, or sponsored at The Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis Indiana University, and concludes that 'Ostrom's democratic alternative' constitutes an alternative scientific paradigm as defined by Thomas Kuhn. The paper concludes with a comment on the continuing relevance of Ostrom's critique in the post-9/11 era.
- Subjects
UNITED States; OSTROM, Vincent; POLITICAL science research; SOCIAL groups research; DEMOCRACY; FEDERALIST, The (Book); OSTROM, Elinor, 1933-2012; DEMOCRACY in America (Book : de Tocqueville); POLICY analysis; HISTORY; POLITICAL attitudes
- Publication
Public Choice, 2015, Vol 163, Issue 1/2, p67
- ISSN
0048-5829
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1007/s11127-015-0235-1