Challenging institutional analysis and development : the Bloomington school

chapter Introduction -- part Part I From metropolitan reform to a theory of governance systems: The origins and main themes of the Bloomington research program -- chapter 1 Political economy, polycentricity and the metropolitan reform debate -- chapter 2 Crossing the great divide: The nature of public economies -- part Part II The "human condition" and the foundations of social order: Elements of a social philosophy of institutionalism -- chapter 3 Knowledge and institutions: Developing a social philosophy of institutional order and change -- chapter 4 Ideas, language and meaning: An unorthodox approach to institutional order and institutional analysis -- part The Bloomington School in its intellectual context: a family of themes and schools of thought -- chapter 5 Competing disciplines, methodological divides and emerging research agendas: The Bloomington School in its interdisciplinary setting -- chapter 6 Public policy analysis, Public Choice and the old "new science of politics".