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In hiis Historical Essay on the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799, Cuoco synthesized the work of Machiavelli, Vico, and Enlightenment philosophers to offer an explanation for why and how revolutions succeed or fail.

"At a time when social scientists are increasingly focusing on the reasons why nations fail and democracies die, Filippo Sabetti turns to the opposite argument, asking instead why institutions endure. To do so, he presents Gasparo Contarini's sixteenth-century account of the Republic of Venice to help modern readers understand what made Venice the longest-lived self-constituted republic. In its long history, Venice was the only city that succeeded in constructing a durable republicanism and it was one of the earliest to depart from the hierarchical world of national monarchies and sovereignty. Because of this, the author suggests that Contarini's The Republic of Venice may be just as instructive, if not more, than Machiavelli's The Prince to students of politics. Contarini is as secular as Machiavelli and is as realistic in his view of human nature, but he goes much further, examining in the case of Venice how it is possible for fallible human beings to construct a successful and stable government. This is the first modern English-language edition of Contarini's classic work, De magistratibus et republica Venetorum, from the original Latin."--

Normative and empirical inquiries into systems of governance / Mark Sproule-Jones, Barbara Allen, and Filippo Sabetti -- Constitutional foundations for a theory of system comparisons / Vincent Ostrom -- Foundations for a normative assessment of governance -- The normative and limiting conditions in a polycentric political order / Vincent Ostrom -- Legal pluralism, polycentricity, and faith-based organizations in global governance / Michael D. McGinnis -- Challenges to interreligious liberative collective action between Muslims and Christians / Anas Malik -- Democratization without violence : can political order be achieved through peaceful means? / Filippo Sabetti -- The man who heated up economic discussion with a stove : Walter Eucken's method of institutional design / Stephan Kuhnert -- Struggles for polycentric governance in diverse continents -- Malawi's Lake Chiuta fisheries : intelligent burden-shedding to foster renewable resources stewardship / Jamie Thomson -- From the Cheyenne way to the Chilean way (of political reconciliation and impunity) : a retrospective on political architecture, political culture, and institutional design / Brian Loveman -- Challenges facing "state" building in Burma / Tun Myint -- American experience in metropolitan governance / Vincent Ostrom