Paul Dragos Aligica is Senior Research Fellow at the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Professor of Administrative Sciences at the University of Bucharest.Peter J. Boettke is Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University and the Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center.Vlad Tarko is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Economy and Moral Science at University of Arizona.

This book offers a bold new framework for studying public administration. It incorporates the best ideas that have been developed in the political economy tradition and applies them in innovative ways to perennial problems about governance and the state. A must-read.

• IntroductionAcknowledgmentsPart I: A Distinctive Perspective on Governance: The Building BlocksChapter 1: Classical Liberalism: Delineating Its Theory of GovernanceChapter 2: Function, Structure, and Process at the Private-Public InterfaceChapter 3: Dynamic Governance: The Polycentrism Process and Knowledge ProcessesPart II: Public Choice and Public Administration: The ConfluenceChapter 4: Public Administration and Public Choice: Charting the FieldChapter 5: Public Choice, Public Administration, and Self-Governance: The Ostromian ConfluenceChapter 6: Heterogeneity, Coproduction, and Polycentric Governance: The Ostroms' Public Choice Institutionalism RevisitedPart III: Framing the Applied Level: Themes, Issue Areas, and CasesChapter 7: Metropolitan Governance: Polycentric Solutions for Complex ProblemsChapter 8: Independent Regulatory Agencies and Their Reform: An Exercise in Institutional ImaginationChapter 9: Polycentric Stakeholder Analysis: Corporate Governance and Corporate Social ResponsibilityConclusions: Governance and Public Management: A Vindication of the Classical-Liberal Perspective?

Paul Dragos Aligica is Senior Research Fellow at the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Professor of Administrative Sciences at the University of Bucharest.Peter J. Boettke is Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University and the Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center.Vlad Tarko is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Economy and Moral Science at University of Arizona.

This book offers a bold new framework for studying public administration. It incorporates the best ideas that have been developed in the political economy tradition and applies them in innovative ways to perennial problems about governance and the state. A must-read.

• IntroductionAcknowledgmentsPart I: A Distinctive Perspective on Governance: The Building BlocksChapter 1: Classical Liberalism: Delineating Its Theory of GovernanceChapter 2: Function, Structure, and Process at the Private-Public InterfaceChapter 3: Dynamic Governance: The Polycentrism Process and Knowledge ProcessesPart II: Public Choice and Public Administration: The ConfluenceChapter 4: Public Administration and Public Choice: Charting the FieldChapter 5: Public Choice, Public Administration, and Self-Governance: The Ostromian ConfluenceChapter 6: Heterogeneity, Coproduction, and Polycentric Governance: The Ostroms' Public Choice Institutionalism RevisitedPart III: Framing the Applied Level: Themes, Issue Areas, and CasesChapter 7: Metropolitan Governance: Polycentric Solutions for Complex ProblemsChapter 8: Independent Regulatory Agencies and Their Reform: An Exercise in Institutional ImaginationChapter 9: Polycentric Stakeholder Analysis: Corporate Governance and Corporate Social ResponsibilityConclusions: Governance and Public Management: A Vindication of the Classical-Liberal Perspective?