All Publications

Books &  Monographs

Work in Progress & Forthcoming Publications:

Chinese Translation and Publication (by the Commercial Press, Beijing, China) of my

2020 book The Republic of Venice: De magistratibus et republica Venetorum. Beijing, China. Scheduled to appear in print late 2025.

Reflections: “The Significance of the Roman Senate beyond Rome.” And “The Roman Senate in Perspective: Learning from Others.” In Liberty Matters series at the Online Library of Liberty, (Indianapolis): May-June 2023.

Book manuscript in preparation entitled Struggles for Self-Rule: Beyond the Binary of State and Society.

“Landscape of Cognitive Options and Possibilities: Seeing like a State or Seeing Like a Polycentric Renaissance Republic: Implications for Modern Politics and the Environment.” Paper.

Single Authored Books:

2010. Civilization and Self-Government: The Political Thought of Carlo Cattaneo. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books.2013 (paper).

2014. Alla Ricerca del Buon Governo in Italia. [New updated edition of The Search for Good Government]  Manduria-Rome: Piero Lacaita Editore.

2002. Village Politics and the Mafia in Sicily. [New and expanded edition of Political Authority] San Francisco: ICS Press; and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

2000, and 2002. The Search for Good Government: Understanding the Paradox of Italian Democracy. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

        Short-listed for the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada’s Harold Adam Innis Book Prize for the best English-language book in the social sciences.

1993. Politica e potere in un comune siciliano [Italian-language edition of Political Authority.] Cosenza: Pellegrini Editore.

1984. Political Authority in a Sicilian Village. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University

Press.

Edited Books and Monographs:

2020. Gasparo Contarini, The Republic of Venice. De magistratibus et republica Venetorum. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (edited and introduced).

2017. Institutional Diversity in Self-Governing Societies. The Bloomington School and

         Beyond. Lanham: Lexington Books (coedited and introduced with Dario Castiglione).

2014. Choice, Rules and Collective Action. The Ostroms on the Study of Institutions and Governance. Colchester: University of Essex, ECPR Press (coedited and introduced with Paul Dragos Aligica).

2014. Historical Essay on the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799 by Vincenzo Cuoco(1806). Toronto: University of Toronto Press (coedited, introduced and annotated with Bruce Haddock).

2009. The Practice of Constitutional Development: Vincent Ostrom’s Quest to Understand Human Affairs. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (coedited with Barbara Allen and Mark Sproule-Jones).

2008. The Struggle to Constitute and Sustain Productive Orders: Vincent Ostrom’s Quest to Understand Human Affairs. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books  (coedited with Barbara Allen and Mark Sproule-Jones).

2007. Libertà e liberali in Europa e in America [Liberty and Liberalism in Europe and America]. Milan: Edizioni Guerini e Associati.

2006. Civilization and Democracy: The Salvemini Anthology of Cattaneo’s Writings. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, (coedited with Carlo G. Lacaita).  

2005. Italian Politics & Society (no. 60 Spring) 102 pp. (ed. with Anthony C. Masi).

     2004. Italian Politics & Society (no. 59 Fall) 60 pp. (ed. with Anthony C. Masi)

2001. Il Crimine in America. Cosenza: Pellegrini Editore (coedited  with Saverio Di Bella and Pierre Tremblay).

1991. Italian Politics: A Review, vol. 5. London: Pinter Publishers (coedited with R.       Catanzaro).

1990. Politica in Italia: I fatti dell’anno e le interpretazioni Edizione 90. Bologna: Il Mulino (coedited  with R. Catanzaro).

1988. Canadian Federalism: From Crisis to Constitution. Lanham, MD: University Press of America (coedited with Harold M. Waller and Daniel J. Elazar).

1984. Crisis and Continuity in Canadian Federalism (special issue of Publius, vol. 14,  co-edited and introduced with H.M. Waller).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“Gasparo Contarini and Long Enduring Institutions.”  Pp. xiii-xxxviii. In F. Sabetti, ed., Gasparo Contarini, The Republic of Venice. De magistratibus et republica Venetorum. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020.

“The myth and the antimyth of Venice.” Pp. xxxix-xliii. In In F. Sabetti, ed., Gasparo Contarini, The Republic of Venice. De magistratibus et republica Venetorum. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020.

“Antonio Genovesi and Human Flourishing.” Acta Philosophica  28 (no.2) 2019: 329-334.

         “Creativity, Diversity and Governance: Extending the Ostroms’ Research         Program.” Pp. xiii-xxii. In F. Sabetti and D. Castiglione, eds., Institutional         Diversity in Self-Governing Societies. The Bloomington School and Beyond.         Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017.

         “For a History of the Struggle to Constitute and Sustain Productive Orders:         Lessons from Sicily.” Pp. 187-212. In F. Sabetti and D. Castiglione, eds.,         Institutional    Diversity in Self-Governing Societies. The Bloomington School and         Beyond. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017. With R.Candela.

         “Tocqueville’s Voyage of  Discovery from Sicily to America.” Pp. 337-364. In         Christine D. Henderson, ed., Tocqueville’s Voyages. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund         Inc. 2014. [R]

         “The Collective Action Theory Path to Contextual Analysis.” Journal of Natural         Resources Policy Research 2014: 1-14. With Paul Dragos Aliciga. [R]

         “The Ostroms’ Research Programme for the Study of Institutions and Governance: Theoretical and Epistemic Foundations.” With Paul D. Aligica. Pp. 1-22. In Filippo Sabetti and Paul D. Aligica, eds., Choice, Rules and Collective Action. The Ostroms on the Study of Institutions and Governance. Colchester: University of Essex, ECPR Press, 2014.

         “Vincenzo Cuoco and the Nature of Revolution and Constitutionalism.” With B. Haddock. Pp. xi-xxxvi. In B. Haddock and F. Sabetti, eds., Vincenzo Cuoco. Historical Essay on the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.[R]

         “Vincenzo Cuoco on the Limits of Revolution and Constitutionalism.” Intrasformazione: Rivista di Storia delle Idee 3 (2014): 114-132. With Bruce Haddock. [R]

         “Artisans of the Common Life:  Building a Public Science of Civics.” In Civic         Studies, ed. by Peter Levine and Karol Soltan. Washington DC: Bringing Theory         to Practice, 2014. [R]

     “Cattaneo, Tocqueville and the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University,         Bloomington.” Pp. 31-46. In Carlo G. Lacaita and Franco Masoni, eds., Carlo         Cattaneo: Federalismo e Sviluppo. Florence: Le Monnier, 2013.

         “Public Happiness as the Wealth of Nations. The Rise of Political Economy in         Naples in a Comparative Perspective.” California Italian Studies 3 (no.1 2012):   1- 31  http://escholarship.org/uc/item/7db6235h  [R]

      “Constitutional Artisanship and Institutional Diversity: Elinor Ostrom, Vincent

   Ostrom  and the Workshop.” The Good Society 20 2011 (no.1): 73-83. [R]

“Stationary Bandits: Lessons from the Practice of Research from Sicily.”

 Sociologica 2/2011: 1-22. www.Sociologica.it [R]

      “Cattaneo come Tocqueville? [Cattaneo like Tocqueville?’] Confronti  1-2 2011:

65-87. www.eupolislombardia.it [R]

“The Making of Italy as a Constitutional Experiment.” Pp. 21-33. Proceedings from the Round Table of December 7, 2010 at Carleton University. Ottawa: Ambasciata d’Italia, 2011.

     “Italian Political Thought.” International Encyclopedia of Political Science ed. by George T. Kurian. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2011. http://library.cqpress.com/teps/encyps_843.1. [R]

    “Institutions as Human Artifacts” (with Barbara Allen and Mark Sproule-Jones). Pp.

3-11. In The Practice of Constitutional Development ed. by Filippo Sabetti, Barbara Allen and Mark Sproule-Jones. Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, 2009 .

   “Democratization without Violence: Can Political Order be Achieved through

Peaceful Means?” Pp. 85-110. In The Struggle to Constitute and Sustain Productive Orders ed. by M. Sproule-Jones, B. Allen, F. Sabetti. Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, 2008. [R]

  “Normative and Empirical Inquiries into Systems of Governance.” (with Barbara

Allen and Mark Sproule-Jones). Pp. 3- 10. In The Struggle to Constitute and Sustain Productive Orders ed. by Mark Sproule-Jones, Barbara Allen and Filippo Sabetti. Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, 2008.

   “Democracy and Civic Culture.” Pp. 340-362. In The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics ed. by Carles Boix and Susan Stokes. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Paper edition 2009. [R]

“Incivilimento e autogoverno nel pensiero politico dell’Ottocento: il contributo di Carlo Cattaneo in una prospettiva comparatistica [Civilization and Self-Government in Nineteenth-Century Political Thought:  Carlo Cattaneo’s contribution in a comparative perspective].” Pp. 453-484. In Città e Pensiero Politico Italiano dal Risorgimento alla Repubblica, ed. R. Ghiringhelli. Milan: Edizioni Vita & Pensiero, 2007. [R]

“Types of Federalism: Achieving Self-Governing Capabilities in Societies with Federal Potentials.” Pp. 27-54.  In Dynamics of Federalism, ed. Michael Pagano and Robert Leonardi. New York: Macmillan Palgrave, 2007. [R]

“Carlo Cattaneo and Varieties of Liberalism” (with C.G. Lacaita). Pp. 3-52. In C.G. Lacaita and F. Sabetti, eds., Civilization and Democracy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. [R]

“Dalla Cultura Civica al Capitale Sociale: Progresso nella Scienza Politica Comparata [From Civic Culture to Social Capital : Progress in Comparative Politics].” Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 36 (August 2006): 183-205. Lead article [R]

“The Mafia Misunderstood – Again.” Journal of Modern Italian Studies 11 (no. 2 2006): 232-239 [R]

“Local Roots of Constitutionalism.” Perspectives on Political Science 33 (no. 2, Spring 2004): 70-78. [R]

“Cattaneo e il modello americano: per una scienza politica nuova.” In Carlo Lacaita, ed., Carlo Cattaneo: I Temi e le Sfide. Pp. 345-366. Lugano/Milan: Casagrande Editore, 2003. [R]

“Il Passaggio alla Modernità: Riflessioni Teoretiche sull’Esperienza di Francia, Italia e Spagna.” Teoria Politica XVIII (no. 3, 2002): 21-43. [R]

“Un Progetto per lo Studio delle Istituzioni di autogoverno di lunga durata nel Meridione.” Incontri Mediterranei 5 (2002): 64-84.  [R]

“Le facce del serpente: una rilettura del crimine organizzato alla luce dei più recenti studi americani e di nuovi paradigmi interpretativi.” (coauthored with Saverio Di Bella and Pierre Tremblay). Pp. 5-28. In Il Crimine in America (Cosenza: Pellegrini Editori, 2001. [R]

-Published also in Incontri Mediterranei 1 (no. 1, 2000): 3-14.

“Covenant Language in Canada: Continuity and Change in Political Discourse.” Pp. 259-284. In Daniel J. Elazar and John Kincaid, eds., The Covenant Connection: From Federal Theology to Modern Federalism. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2000. [R]

“Cuestiones dificiles y solution de problema: reto del federalismo canadiense, antes y ahora.” In Alicia H. Chavez, ed., Hacia un nuevo federalismo? Pp. 177-200. Mexico City: Colegio de Mexico, 1996.

“Path  Dependency and Civic Culture: Some Lessons from Italy about Interpreting Social Experiments.” Politics & Society 24 (March 1996): 19-44 [R]

-Reprinted, pp. 103-130, in Mark Donovan, ed., Italy International Library of Politics and Comparative Government vol. II. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 1998 [R]

-Translated in Catalan: “El cami de la dependencia I la cultura civica: algunes llicons italines sobre la interpretacio els experiments socials.” Pp. 283-315. In Per que la democracia funcioni. La importancia del capital social. Barcelona: Proa, 2000

“Democrazia, capitale sociale e unità della legge: una rassegna critica delle scienze sociali e dello sviluppo italiano.” Incontri Meridionali (1995, no. 3): 7-48 [R]

“Whose Law, Whose Justice? Of Crime and Punishment in Modern Times.” Pp. 129-144, in S. Hellman and G. Pasquino, eds., Italian Politics. A Review, Vol. 7. London: Pinter Publishers, 1992 [R]

-Reprinted and translated “L’emergenza criminalità”. Pp. 191-212, in S. Hellman and G. Pasquino, eds., La politica in Italia. Edizione 92. Bologna: Il Mulino 1992 [R]

“The 1989 Events in Perspective: The end of an era or the past as the future?” (With R. Catanzaro). Pp. 1-7, in F. Sabetti and R. Catanzaro, eds Italian Politics: A Review, vol. 5. London: Pinter Publishers 1991 [R]

-Published as “Introduzione.” Pp. 41-50 in R. Catanzaro and F. Sabetti, eds., Politica in Italia. I Fatti dell’anno e le interpretazioni. Edizione 90 Bologna: Il Mulino, 1990

“The Mafia and the Anti-mafia: Moments in the Struggle for Justice and Self-Governance in Sicily.” Pp. 174-195, in R. Nanetti and R. Catanzaro, eds., Italian Politics. A Review, vol. 4. London: Pinter Publishers, 1990 [R]

-Reprinted and translated  “La lotta alla mafia tra istituzioni e società.” Pp. 267-296 in R. Catanzaro and R. Nanetti, eds., Politica in Italia Edizione 1989. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1989 [R]

“Teoria e pratica del federalismo nord-americano.” Pp. 297-328, in E. Albertoni and M. Ganci, eds., Federalismo, regionalismo autonomismo: Esperienze e proposte a confronto. Siracusa: Ediprint, 1989 [R]

-First Reprint, pp. 11-42, in E. Albertoni, ed., Federalismo Regionalismo Autonomia. America e Europa. Milan: Eured, 1992

-Second Reprint, pp. 11-41, in AA.VV. Dottrine Politiche e Istituzioni del Federalismo (America e Europa). Milan: Eured, 1993

“Un precursore siciliano di ‘Public Choice’? Francesco Ferrara e lo sviluppo delle scienze sociali in Nord America.” Il Politico 54 (July – Sept. 1989): 409-423 [R]

-Reprinted, pp. 259-274, in M. Ganci and P. Barucci, eds., Francesco Ferrara e il suo tempo. Rome: Bancaria Editrice, 1990 [R]

“Village Politics in Sicily.” Journal of Peasant Studies 14 (1987): 119-124 [R]

“Crisis and Continuity in Canadian Federalism” (coauthored with H.M. Waller) in F. Sabetti and H. M. Waller, eds., Crisis and Continuity in Canadian Federalism (special issue of Publius, vol. 14), December 1984

-Reprinted, pp. 1-8, in H. Waller, F. Sabetti, D. Elazar, eds., Canadian Federalism: From Crisis to Constitution. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988

“Mosca in Canadian Social Science.” Pp. 165-180, in Ettore A. Albertoni, ed., Studies on the Political Thought of Gaetano Mosca. Milan: Giuffre 1982 [R]

-Reprinted as “Problemi critici e diffusione dell’opera di Gaetano Mosca nella cultura politica del Canada.” Pp. 203-218, in AA.VV. La dottrina della classe politica di Gaetano Mosca ed i suoi sviluppi internazionali. Palermo: Societa Siciliana per la Storia Patria, 1982 [R]

-Reprint of Italian version in Ettore Albertoni, ed., Elitismo e Democrazia nella cultura politica del Nord-America. Milan: Giuffre, 1989

“The Historical Context of Constitutional Change in Canada.” Law and Contemporary Problems 45 (Autumn 1982): 11-32 [R]

-Reprinted, pp. 11-32, in Paul Davenport and Richard H. Leach, eds., Reshaping Confederation: The 1982 Reform of the Canadian Constitution. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1984 [R]

“The Making of Italy as an Experiment in Constitutional Choice.” Publius 12 (Summer 1982): 65-84 [R]

“Reflections on Canadian Urban Governance Research.” Comparative Urban Research 8 (no 2 1981): 87-112 [R]

“The Structure and Performance of Urban Systems in Italy.” Pp. 113-145, in Vincent Ostrom and Frances Pennell Bish, eds., Comparing Urban Service Delivery Systems: Structure and Performance. Urban Affairs Annual Reviews, vol.12. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1977 [R]

“Amoral Familism: Cultural Backwardness or Institutional Failure?” in Vincent Ostrom and Timothy Hennessey, Conjectures on Institutional Analysis and Design. Bloomington: Indiana University, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Publications, 1975

“Theory of Public Policy: European Contributions.” Policy Studies Journal (Spring 1973): 127-132 [R]

-Reprinted in Stuart S. Nagel, ed., Policy Studies in America and Elsewhere Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1975 [R]

“The Political Parties Literature: An Assessment of Its Strength and Weakness.” Il Politico 37 (December 1972): 778-792 [R]

Notes/Review Essays

“What Kind of New Political Science?”  Tocqueville’s New Science of Politics Revisited. The Collected Liberty Matters. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund Inc. (no.9 July 2014): 348-352, 357, 360. <oll.libertyfund.org/titles/2629>

“Riflessioni teoretiche e comparate sulla storia [Comparative Historical Reflections] ” Incontri mediterranei 2006 [2005 no. 2]

“Thinking Theoretically and Comparatively about History.” Italian Politics & Society no. 56 (Fall 2002): 28-34.

Four Electronic Editions posted with title” The Mafia and all that:Thinking theoretically and comparatively about Sicilian History:”

-H-NET List Italian-American History and Culture, 19 September 2002

-H-NET List for Italian History, 20 September 2002

-H-NET List for Society for the Anthropology of Europe, 20 September 2002

-Italian-Studies List (U.K.), 20 September 2002

“In Conversation: The Meaning of Democracy and the Vulnerability of Democracies.” Polycentric Circles 8 (no. 1 January 2002): 1-3 (with  Barbara Allen)

 “Riconsiderando la questione meridionale: una relazione preliminare da Chiaromonte in Basilicata.”  Incontri Mediterranei 2 (no. 2, 2000): 204-210

“Un’industria a più dimensioni? Una riflessione comparativa di una storia della mafia.” Incontri Mediterranei 1 (no. 1 2000): 168-170

“Commento alla relazione di Elinor Ostrom: Come alcune comunità hanno evitato la tragedia delle risorse comuni.” Pp. 271-282.  In Pietro Nervi, ed., Le terre civiche tra istituzionalizzazione del territorio e il declino dell’autorità locale di sistema. Padua: Cedam, 2000

“Recenti studi americani sulla storia moderna italiana, 1700-1994.” Incontri Mediterranei 1 (1999): 211-215

“A Different Way of Knowing: A Research Note on the Real Montegrano”. Italian Politics & Society (no. 44, Fall 1995): 18-25

“The Absence of a Covenantal Tradition”, Pp. 259-263 in W. Dodge, ed., Boundaries of Identity: A Quebec Reader. Toronto: Lester, 1992

“Sicilian Political Economy: A Reply to Anton Blok.” American Ethnologist 14 (May 1986): 381-382

“Federalism and Regionalism: Reflections on the Association Conference at Aosta.” Newsletter of the Association of Centers for Federal Studies 2 (Fall 1978): 15-16

“The Politics and Bureaucracy of Planning Modern Rome.” Il Politico 43 (March 1977): 144-149 [R]

Book Reviews

Review of Giacomo Bonan, The State in the Forest. Contested Commons in the

Nineteenth Century Venetian Alps.  White Horse Press, 2019. In Journal of Modern Italian Studies  28 (1): 145-146.

Review of Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel, From Arcadia to Revolution. The Neapolitan

Monitor and Other Writings. Ed. by Verina R. Jones. Toronto: Iter Press and

Arizona: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Journal of Modern Italian     Studies 26 (2021)  no. 1: 90-91.

Review essay of Paul Rahe, Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty (Yale University

Press, 2009), and Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift (Yale University Press 2009). In Perspectives on Politics 9 (December 2011): 946-949.

Review of Tommaso Astarita, Between Salt Water and Holy Water: A History of

Southern Italy. (W.W. Norton 2005). In Italian  Americana  27 (no.2, 2009): 223-

224.

Review of Enrico Dal Lago, Agrarian Elites. American Slaveholders and Southern

Italian Landowners 1815-1861 (Louisiana State University Press 2005). In Journal of Modern History 80 (September 2008): 623-25

Review of John Robertson, The Case for the Enlightenment. Scotland and Naples,

1680-1760 (Cambridge University Press 2005). Canadian Journal of Political Science 40 (September 2007): 781-83

Review of Emilio Gentile, Politics as Religion (Princeton University Press 2006). In   

Perspectives on Politics 5 (March 2007): 149-50

Review of Salvo Mastellone, Mazzini and Marx: Thoughts upon Democracy in Europe (Praeger 2003). In Journal of Modern History 78 (no.2 June 2006):  468-69

Review of Letizia Paoli, Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style  

(Oxford UP 2003). In Global Crime  6 (August-November 2004): 424-245

Review of Nicola Iannello, ed., La Società senza Stato. I fondatori del pensiero

liberale (Rubettino 2004). In Italian Politics & Society 59 (Fall 2004): 57-58

Review of Lelio Lagorio, Ribelli e Briganti nella Toscana del Novecento (Olschki

Editore 2002). In Journal of Modern Italian Studies 9 (2, 2004): 236-238

Review of Jane C. Schneider and Peter T. Schneider, Reversible Destiny. Mafia,

Antimafia and the Struggle for Palermo (University of California Press 2003). In The American Historical Review 108 (no.5, December 2003): 1552-1553

Review of  Dolores Deidda, ed., Il Mezzogiorno che funziona. Esperienze,progretti e musiche dal Castello di Trani (Donzelli Editore 2001). In Italian Politics & Society no. 56 (Fall 2002): 41-42

Review of Carl Levy, ed. Italian Regionalism: History, Identity and Politics (Berg, 1996). In Journal of Modern Italian Studies 2 (Summer 1997): 403-404

Review of Norberto Bobbio, Ideological Profile of Twentieth-Century Italy (Princeton University Press, 1995); and Carlo Violi, ed., Bibliografia degli Scritti di Norberto Bobbio (Laterza, 1995). In Canadian Journal of Political Science 30 (June 1997): 392-393

Review of Paolo Pezzino, Mafia: Industria della violenza (Florence: Nuova Italia, 1995). In Journal of Modern Italian Studies 1 (no. 3, 1996): 479-482

Review of Benjamin Higgins and Donald Savoie, Regional Development Theories and Their Application (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1995). In Canadian Journal of Political Science 29 (June 1996): 420-421

Review of Steven C. Hughes, Crime, Disorder and the Risorgimento: The Politics of Policing in Bologna (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994). In Italian Politics & Society (no. 45, Spring 1996): 31-32

-Reprinted in Incontri mediterranei 1 (no. 1, 2000): 171-172

Review of G. Casale, Benedetto Croce between Naples and Europe (New York: Peter Lang, 1994). In Italian Politics & Society (no. 44, Fall 1995): 26-27

Review of Spencer Di Scala, Italy: From Revolution to Republic, 1700 to the Present (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995). In Italian Politics & Society (no. 44, Fall 1995): 32-36

Review of Mark Gilbert, The Italian Revolution, the end of Politics, Italian Style? (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995)). In Italian Politics & Society (no. 44, Fall 1995): 32-36

Review of David M. Olson and C.E.S. Franks, eds., Representation and Policy Formation in Federal Systems. Canada and the United States (Berkeley: University of California Institute of Governmental Studies Press, 1993). In Canadian Public Policy 20 (December 1994): 445

Review of M. Keating, Comparative Urban Politics (Aldershot: E. Elgar, 1991). In Canadian Journal of Political Science 26 (March 1993): 183-184

Review of K. Kernaghan and J.W. Langford, The Responsible Public Servant (Halifax: The Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1990). In Canadian Public Policy 17 (April 1991): 124-125

Review of A. Sancton, Governing the Island of Montreal: Language Differences and Metropolitan Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985) In The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 483 (September 1987): 219-220

Review of G. Arrighi, ed., Semiperipheral Development. The Politics of Southern Europe in the Twentieth Century (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1985). In Canadian Journal of Political Science (June 1987): 428-430

Review of K.G. Banting and R. Simeon, eds., Redesigning the State: The Politics of Constitutional Change in Industrial Nations (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984). In American Political Science Review 80 September 1986): 1034-1035

“Citations.” Conference Group on Italian Politics Newsletter, no. 15 (August 1984): 49-51

“Bibliographic Notes on Covenant and Politics in Canada.” Covenant Letter (Temple University, Center for the Study of Federalism) no. 7 (Fall 1983): 4-8

Review of V. Seymour Wilson, Canadian Public Policy and Administration: Theory and Environment (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1981). In Canadian Public Policy 8 (Summer 1982): 390

Review of M. Barbagli, P. Corbetta, A. Parisi and H. M.A. Schadie, Fluidità elettorale e classi sociali in Italia (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1979). In Newsletter of the Conference Group on Italian Politics no. 8 (December 1980): 8-9

Working Papers

    The Future of Liberty. Pp. 268. Papers selected and edited for International Symposium sponsored by Compagnia di S.Paolo, Liberty Fund  Inc. and Einaudi Center, Turin, Italy, April 23-26, 2009.

    Liberty and Institutions of Self-Government. Pp. 280. Readings for Liberty Fund Colloquium, Indianapolis, Indiana, May 28-31, 2009.

Decline of Classical Liberalism in America and Europe. Readings for a Liberty Fund-Compagnia di S. Paolo Symposium, 2006, pp 275.

Italian Classical Liberal Tradition. Readings for Liberty Fund Colloquium, 2004,

   pp. 180.

Local Roots of Constitutionalism (Working Papers of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis). Bloomington: Indiana University Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, 2001.

The Liberal Idea in 19th Century Italy: Building a New Science of Politics. (Working Papers of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis). Bloomington: Indiana University Workshop in Political Theory & Policy Analysis, 2001.

Power and Incentives: A Comparative Analysis of Two Research Traditions. (With Rejean Landry). Working Papers in Political Science. Montreal: McGill University, Department of Political Science, 1993.

Covenant Language in Canada: Continuity and Change in Political Discourse. (Working Papers of the Workshop on Covenant and Politics, no. 37). Philadelphia: Temple University, Center for the Study of Federalism, 1980.

Local Organization and Citizen Participation in Urban Planning: A Comparative Bibliography (co-edited with Raffaella Nanetti). Bibliographies of the Neighborhood Organization Research Group. Bloomington: Indiana University, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis Publications, 1978.

Academic Conference Papers

“Civic Artisanship and Strong Institutional Settings.” Paper prepared for  International

Workshop on Rediscovering the Sources of Sustainable Development, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, November 15-16, 2018.

“Notes on Vincent Ostrom’s Conception of Self-Governance.” Paper for discussion,         Ideals of Governance Planning Meeting, Sponsored by the John Templeton         Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, 11-12- October 2015.

 “The Rise and Fall of Baronial Jurisdiction in Sicily: A Theoretical Model         Reconsidered.” Paper presented at the Workshop in Philosophy, Politics and         Economics, The F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics         and Economics at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University, Fairfax,         Virginia, November 6, 2014.

“Reflections on Understanding Capitalisms from an Institutional Diversity Perspective.”         The Relevance of the Bloomington School Conference, Tocqueville Program,         Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, April 18, 2014.

“The Making of Italy as a Constitutional Experiment,” Round Table on Italian

Unification 150 Years Later: A Historical Perspective, Carleton University, Ottawa December 7, 2010.

 “Public Happiness as the Wealth of Nations: The Rise of Political Economy in Eighteenth Century  Naples ” Paper presented at the Conference “The Arts and Sciences in Naples. Discovering the Past, Inventing the Future,” Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies, UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA Los Angeles, February 26-27, 2010.
   

   “Tocqueville’s Voyage of Discovery from Sicily to America.” Paper prepared for

         Liberty Fund Symposium “Tocqueville’s Voyage,” Chicago, January 8-11, 2009.

“The Paradigmatic Significance of Vincent Ostrom,” Paper prepared for the

Roundtable on Vincent Ostrom’s Scholarship and Twenty-First Century Appraoches to Understanding Global Inequality: Contributions to Institutional Theory, Political Economy, and Federalism in the Study of Development and Governance, American Political Science Meetings, Boston, August 28, 2008.

“Passage to Modernity: Can Struggles for National Liberation and Unification be Realized through Democratic Means of Self-Government?” Paper prepared for the American Political Science Association Meetings, Philadelphia, September 1, 2006.

“The Quiet Revolution: Rethinking the Foundations of Human Society.” Paper prepared for Conference on Vincent Ostrom and the Quest for Understanding Human Affairs, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, May 31- June 3, 2006.

“Italian Liberalism Between British Philosophical Radicalism and French Eclecticism,” Paper prepared for Conference on the City and Italian Political Thought from the Risorgimento to the Republic, Meetings of the Italian Association for the Study of the History of Political Thought, Milan  16-18 February 2006.

“Law and Revolution in the Work of Harold Berman and Alexis de Tocqueville.” Paper for Roundtable on Harold Berman’s Law and Revolution vols I and II, American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, Washington, DC, September 1, 2005.

“Overcoming Inequalities, Achieving Self-Governing Potentials.” Paper for Foundations of Political Theory and History of Political Thought Panel, American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, September 2-5, 2004.

“The Study of Institutions.” Talk given in the doctoral program of Department of Political Studies, University of Turin, Turin, 2 March 2004.

“Achieving Self-Governing Capabilities in Societies with Federal Potential.” Paper

for participants of the Africa-Tocquevillian Analytics Meeting, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, 24-28 November 2003.

“Federalism as the New Science of Politics: The Importance of Design Principles.”

Paper prepared for the International Conference “Which Federalism?,”  Savelletri, Brindisi, 12-14 November 2003.

“Institutional Analysis and the Study of Comparative Politics.” Talk given in doctoral program, Department of Political  Studies, University of Turin, Turin, 17 March, 2003.

“Putnam, Cattaneo and Development: History as A Rich Source of Human, Social and Cultural Capital or a Heavy Burden of Mistrust and Backwardness?” Talk given at Staff Seminar, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, 27 November, 2002.

“Human Progress and the Comparative Study of Civilization in Cattaneo.” Paper prepared for Workshop Colloquium and Working Group on Tocquevillian Analytics Meetings, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, 25-29 November 2002.

“The Passage to Modernity and Democratic Transformation: Thinking Theoretically about the Political Experience of France, Italy and Spain.” Paper prepared for   Workshop Colloquium and Working Group on Tocquevillian Analytics Meetings, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, 25-29 November 2002.

“Cattaneo and American Federalism: For a New Science of Politics.” Paper presented at the International Conference on the Thought and Action of Carlo Cattaneo, Milan and Lugano, 5-8 November 2001.

“Sicily as a Laboratory of Multiple Political Experiments.” Paper presented at the Conference on Sicily: Myth, Metaphor, Reality, Department of Italian Studies, McGill University, and the Italian Cultural Institute, Montreal, 13 October 2001.

“The Liberal Idea in Nineteenth-Century Italy.” Paper presented at panel on varieties of liberal thought in 19th cent. Europe, the American Political Science Association Meetings, San Francisco, 29 August- 2 September 2001.

“Local Roots of Constitutionalism.” Paper presented at the Claremont panel on political theory and the study of local government, the American Political Science Association Meetings, San Francisco, 29 August- 2 September 2001.

“A Research Agenda for the Study of Enduring Institutions of Self-Governance in the Italian South.” Paper presented at American Political Science Association Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia, September 1999.

“The Challenge of Reform in Italy, France, Italy and Spain.” Paper presented at Workshop on the Workshop Conference 2, Indiana University, Bloomington, June 9-13, 1999.

Italian rendition and presentation of Elinor Ostrom’s paper “How Some Communities Have Avoided the Tragedy of the Commons.” Third Annual Meeting of the Center for Studies and Documentation on Common Properties of the University of Trento, Trento, 12-13 November 1998.

“Intractable Issues and Problem Solving: The Challenge of Canadian Federalism, Past and Present.” Paper presented at the International Colloquium “Toward a New Federalism”? Fideicomiso Historia de las Americas/El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, June 27-28, 1994.

“Democracy, Social Capital and Unity of Law: Some Lessons from Italy about Interpreting Social Experiments.” Paper presented at Session on Political Orders and Civic Culture, Workshop on the Workshop Conference, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, June 16-19, 1994.

“The Free Trade Agreement in a Comparative Historical Perspective.” Paper for Social Science Division, Graduate Program in Economic Law, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco, Mexico City, February 1993.

“Federalism and Trade Politics in Canada.” Paper for Graduate Program in Economic Law, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco, Mexico City, February 1993.

“Public Policy, Federalism and Trade Politics.” Paper for Graduate Program in Economic Law, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco, Mexico City, February 1993.

“Power and Incentives.” Paper prepared with Rejean Landry, at a seminar of the Department of Political Science, Laval University, Quebec City, January 1993.

Translation (and Presentation). “Gian Domenico Romagnosi: On the Free and Universal Competition in the Social Distribution of Wealth.” Liberty and Progress in the Early XIXth Century Italian Economic Thought, Collected papers for a Liberty Fund Colloquium, Reggio Calabria, September 19-22, 1991, pp. 45-64.

Translation (and Presentation). “Carlo Cattaneo: On Thought as a Principle of Political Economy,” In Liberty and Progress in the Early XIXth Century Italian Economic Thought, pp. 183-222.

Translation (and Presentation). “Carlo Cattaneo: On the ‘National System of Political Economy’ of Friedrich List.” In Liberty and Progress in the Early XIXth Century Italian Economic Thought, pp. 223-255.

“Collective-action dilemmas and the problem of law and order: Rethinking the study of outlaw regimes.” Paper presented at the Social Science Seminar Series on Historical data and Theories of Rational Choice, Interdisciplinary Program, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, December 1988.

“The contribution of Francesco Ferrara to the Development of Public Choice Theory.” Paper presented at the Interuniversity Conference on Francesco Ferrara’s Political and Economic Thought, Palermo, October 1988.

“The political economy of human emancipation in Carlo Cattaneo and Karl Marx.” Paper presented at the Mini-conference on the Analysis of Recurrent Patterns of Relationship in Human Societies, Workshop in Political Theory and Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, April 1988.

“Conceptions of Communal Government: Rudiments for a Theory of Fundamental Units of Self-Governance.” Paper presented at the Mini-conference on Patterns of Order and Development in Human Societies, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, December 1987.

“Power and Incentives: From Behavioural to Institutional Analysis.” Paper presented at the Conference on Advances in Comparative Institutional Analysis, Inter-University Center for Postgraduate Studies in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, October 1987 (with Rejean Landry).

“The Theory and Practice of Federalism in Canada and the United States.” Paper presented at the International Conference on Federalism, Autonomy and Regionalism, Enna, Sicily, June 1987.

“Public Choice Theory and a Policy Analysis of the Underworld.” Paper presented at the Graduate Seminar of Department of Political Science, Laval University, Quebec, November 1986.

“Community Self-Help and the Law and Regulations of Government.” Paper presented at the Liberty Fund Conference on the Concept of Community and the Problem of Power, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, April 1985.

“Political Order in the Sicilian Countryside.” Paper presented at the Conference Group on Italian Politics Panel on Subnational Governments, American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, September 1983.

“The Historical Context of Constitutional Change in Canada.”  Paper presented at the McGill-Duke Symposium on the Reform of the Canadian Constitution of 1982, Durham, NC, April 1982.

“Covenant Language in Canadian Political Discourse.” Paper presented at the Conference on Covenant Language, Center for the Study of Federalism, Philadelphia, December 1980.

“Mosca in Canadian Social Science.” Paper presented at International Gaetano Mosca Conference on the study of the Ruling Class, Palermo, November 1980.

“Citizen Participation and Reform experiments in Canadian Urban Government.” Paper presented at the American-European Conference on Neighborhood-Level Government, Florence, March 1980.

“Bureaucratic Pre-emption and Citizen Participation in Local Government.” Paper presented at the International Conference on Public Policy, Tutzing Akademie fur Politische Bildung, Tutzing, Bavaria, June 1978.

“Francesco Ferrara and Alternative Conceptions of Institutional Reforms.” Paper presented at the Center for International Development and Research, Indiana University, October 1973.

“Approaches to the Study of Peasant Communities.” Paper presented at the Council of European Studies and M.I.T. Workshop on European Peasants, Dedham, MA., September 1971.