The 36 previously unpublished manuscripts of Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis co-founder, Vincent Ostrom, which comprise The Quest to Understand Human Affairs: Essays on Collective, Constitutional, and Epistemic Choice, offer specialists and general readers insight into the constitution of federal governing frameworks in emerging and established democracies as well as illuminating theories of polycentric institutional forms. A foreword by Nobel Laureate and Workshop co-founder Elinor Ostrom and preface by editor and Workshop Affiliated Faculty member, Barbara Allen, give context to these writings in US history and in the evolution of the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework now identified with the "Bloomington School" of policy analysis and political theory.
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