Paul Dragos Aligica

Biographic Data

ID477248
NAMEPaul Dragos Aligica
GIVEN NAMESPaul Dragos
FAMILY NAMEAligica
SIGNATUREALIGICA P D
AFFILIATIONSGeorge Mason University
ORCID0000-0002-9302-6669
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS50
TOTAL CITATIONS102
AUTHOR COUNT50
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6

  • Social and values heterogeneity, and the crisis of liberal democracy: Classical liberal diagnostic and modus vivendi governance solutions

    Open AccessPaul Dragos Aligica, Peter J Boettke et al.ARTICLEConstitutional Political Economy2026References: 5

    To uphold classical liberal values in the 21st century, it is crucial to recognize that the classical liberal tradition itself emerged as a profound response to the crisis of pluralism triggered by the breakdown - during the Protestant Reformation- of a unified and coherent worldview centered around the Catholic Church. Any attempt to address contemporary challenges by drawing on the lessons, insights, and intellectual tools of the liberal tradit…

  • Double Alienation” and Democratic Regression: The democratic regression: The political causes of authoritarian populism . Armin Schäfer and Michael Zürn, Polity Press, 2024

    Paul Dragos AligicaARTICLEThe Good Society2023

  • Conceptualising democratic resilience: A Minimalist Account

    Alexandru Volacu, Paul Dragos AligicaARTICLEContemporary Politics2023Cited by: 14References: 34

    The aim of this article is to contribute in two respects to the evolving research agenda focused on the problem of democratic resilience. First, we attempt to provide several clarifications regarding the general concept of 'democratic resilience', in the course of which we both assess a number of accounts offered thus far and discuss some difficulties raised by elements of its most attractive articulation. Second, we outline a specific conception…

  • Massimiliano Vatiero, The Theory of Transaction in Institutional Economics: A History

    Open AccessPaul Dragos AligicaARTICLEOEconomia2022

    The title of the book is somewhat misleading: the book is in fact both an essay on the intellectual history of the theory of transaction in economics, as well as an attempt to articulate a broad analytical framework for the study of the problem of transactions in institutional theory. In that field we usually associate almost instinctively the notion of “transaction” with the concept of “transaction costs”, embraced as a ready-made construct hand…

  • Institutionalization of Indoctrination: An Exploratory Investigation Based on the Romanian Case Study

    Paul Dragos Aligica, Simona PredaBOOKInstitutionalization of…2022

  • Economic Dualism and Agrarian Policies: Land Reforms and Structural Economic Change in Romania, 1864–2000

    Open AccessAdina Dabu, Paul Dragos AligicaBOOKEconomic Dualism and Agrarian…2020

  • Ignorance, Political Decision, and the Philosophical Foundations of Administrative Sciences

    Open AccessPaul Dragos AligicaARTICLEJournal of Public Administration…2020References: 1

  • Catholic Social Thought and New Institutional Economics: An Assessment of Their Affinities and Areas of Potential Convergence

    Open AccessEileen Norcro, Eileen Norcross et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Economics and…2020Cited by: 1References: 18

    The potential link between Catholic social teaching (CST) and the theoretical developments associated with new institutional economics (NIE) are explored. The emphasis is on the contributions of two Nobel Prize winners in economics-Douglass C. North and Elinor Ostrom-and on the work of political scientist Vincent Ostrom. By adjusting the neoclassical presumptions dominating modern economic theory to include culture, ideas, and religious beliefs i…

  • Polycentric Stakeholder Analysis: Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility

    Open AccessPaul Dragos Aligica, Peter J Boettke et al.CHAPTERPublic Governance and the…2019

    Chapter 9 pushes further the frontier of the discussion into a new, growing and controversial governance debate area: that of corporate social responsibility. One of the most sensitive issues in polycentric governance systems, with their hybrid institutional arrangements at the dynamic interface between the “public” and the “private,” is to specify what are—and what are not—the responsibilities of the private sector—business firms and enterprises…

  • Metropolitan Governance: Polycentric Solutions for Complex Problems

    Paul Dragos Aligica, Peter J Boettke et al.CHAPTERPublic Governance and the…2019

    Chapter 7 focuses on the problems of metropolitan governance, one of the first domains in which the polycentrism theoretical lenses were applied. The example of the police services is used as an overture, as the chapter revisits the field and the literature fifty years after the Ostroms engaged in the “metropolitan reform debate” and launched their program. From a normative standpoint, the underlying thesis is that, even when government is involv…

  • Public Choice, Public Administration, and Self-Governance: The Ostromian Confluence

    Paul Dragos Aligica, Peter J Boettke et al.CHAPTERPublic Governance and the…2019

    Chapter 5 illuminates the specific nature of the synthesis attempted by the Ostroms’ and their associates and discusses the successes as well as the failures of their endeavors. Their effort to promote the public choice perspective in public administration, and the public administration perspective in public choice and to advance on that basis a paradigm change (from “bureaucratic public administration” to “democratic public administration”) is p…

  • Dynamic Governance: Polycentricity and Knowledge Processes

    Paul Dragos Aligica, Peter J Boettke et al.CHAPTERPublic Governance and the…2019

    Chapter 3 present a set of key notions to be employed in framing and approaching the dynamic governance process, and the phenomena associated with it, in ways that are particularly relevant for governance analysis and design: (a) the very idea of process-focused, dynamic governance itself, having at its core the voluntary action principle; (b) the notions of countervailing powers and voluntary sector, nonstate governance, leading to the overarchi…

  • Copyright Page

    Paul Dragos Aligica, Peter J Boettke et al.OTHERPublic Governance and the…2019

  • Independent Regulatory Agencies and Their Reform: An Exercise in Institutional Imagination

    Paul Dragos Aligica, Peter J Boettke et al.CHAPTERPublic Governance and the…2019

    Chapter 8 explores the issue of independent regulatory agencies. Independent regulatory agencies are seen as a serious challenge to democratic administration. They are government organizations of unelected officials, they often resist even mild audit attempts and they are very vulnerable to corruption, rent-seeking, regulatory capture and revolving door problems. The chapter notes first why independent regulatory agencies may nonetheless respond …

  • Conclusions: Governance and Public Management: A Vindication of the Classical-Liberal Perspective?

    Paul Dragos Aligica, Peter J Boettke et al.CHAPTERPublic Governance and the…2019

    The public administration principles articulated in the previous chapters are sufficiently distinct to validate the notion that there is indeed in nuce a classical-liberal theory of public governance to be derived from the foundational liberal philosophical and theoretical writings and from the public rhetoric and positions inspired by them. Further development of the theory and its translation into practice is, however, a more complicated task. …

  • The Classical-Liberal Theory of Governance

    Paul Dragos Aligica, Peter J Boettke et al.CHAPTERPublic Governance and the…2019

    Chapter 1 introduces the building blocks of an updated approach to public governance in the classical-liberal tradition: (a) the repudiation of the “seeing like a state” or “synoptic” vision of social order and governance; (b) the embracement of normative individualism as an axiomatic principle and of its corollaries, freedom of choice and freedom of association, as normative guidelines; (c) skepticism toward the social welfare function aggregati…

  • Function, Structure, and Process at the Private-Public Interface

    Paul Dragos Aligica, Peter J Boettke et al.CHAPTERPublic Governance and the…2019

    Chapter 2 shows how a governance doctrine trapped in a search for pure forms of private organization or public organization, transfixed on the ideal types of the “public” and “private,” would be deficient both normatively and empirically. The chapter shows how it instead makes sense to take an approach that pivots on (a) the variety of (real and possible) institutional and governance arrangements that emerge at the interface (overlap and tension)…

  • Public Administration and Public Choice: Charting the Field

    Paul Dragos Aligica, Peter J Boettke et al.CHAPTERPublic Governance and the…2019

    Chapter 4 documents the conceptual territory at the interface of public administration and public choice and puts the Ostromian contribution in an interpretive context that anchors it in the intellectual history of public administration. Identifying areas of convergence and affinities between the two intellectual domains, it charts the ground opened by the Ostroms’ work, an ambitious attempt to blend the two traditions and to create a conceptual …

  • Heterogeneity, Co-production, and Polycentric Governance: The Ostroms’ Public Choice Institutionalism Revisited

    Paul Dragos Aligica, Peter J Boettke et al.CHAPTERPublic Governance and the…2019

    Chapter 6 elaborates the conceptual framework and the apparatus emerging from the Ostroms’ efforts, especially the pivotal notion of polycentricity, as a unifying and organizing framework or principle for governance theorizing. First, it explicitly articulates the elements of a theory of value heterogeneity as a foundational component of the entire approach. Then it proceeds to clarify a technical ambiguity in the construction of the co-productio…

  • Public Governance and the Classical-Liberal Perspective: Political Economy Foundations

    Paul Dragos Aligica, Peter J Boettke et al.BOOKPublic Governance and the…2019Cited by: 18References: 47

    Classical liberalism entails not only a view about the proper scope of government and its relationship with the market but also a distinct theory about how government should operate within its proper area. This book presents the basic governance theory and political economy principles underpinning this vision. Building upon the works of diverse authors such as Friedrich Hayek, James Buchanan, and Vincent and Elinor Ostrom, the book offers a profo…

  • Artefactual and Artisanship: James M. Buchanan and Vincent Ostrom at the Core and Beyond the Boundaries of Public Choice

    Open AccessPaul Dragos AligicaCHAPTERJames M. Buchanan2018

  • The Austrian and Bloomington Schools of Political Economy

    Open AccessPaul Dragos Aligica, Paul Lewis et al.BOOKAustrian and Bloomington Schools…2017

    Prelims -- ABC-Austria, Bloomington, Chicago: political economy the Ostrom Way -- The Ostroms and Hayek as theorists of complex adaptive systems: commonality and complementarity -- A practical approach to understanding: the possibilities and limitations of applied work in political economy -- The organizational evolution of the American National Red Cross: an Austrian and Bloomington approach to organizational growth and expansion -- Covenant and…

  • Austrian and Bloomington Schools of Political Economy

    Paul Dragos Aligica, Paul Lewis et al.BOOKAustrian and Bloomington Schools…2017

  • Civic Competence, Self-Governance, and the New Epistocratic Paternalism: An Ostromanian Perspective

    Paul Dragos Aligica, Paul AligicaARTICLEThe Good Society2017Cited by: 1References: 2

    This paper revisits the citizens-centered model of governance and its assumptions in the light of the developments taking place in social and behavioral sciences during the last couples of decades. These developments have profoundly challenged some of the key assumptions regarding the civic and political competence of the normal citizens, in normal circumstances, in a normal democratic-liberal system. The very notion of self-governance may be in …

  • Public Administration and the Classical Liberal Perspective: Criticism, Clarifications, and Reconstruction

    Open AccessPaul Dragos AligicaARTICLEAdministration & Society2017Cited by: 2References: 12

    This article argues that despite the widespread perception to the contrary, it is possible to articulate a classical liberal position on public administration that recognizes and confronts the problems of collective governance in the public domain, as opposed to either circumventing them or imposing institutional designs and policy standards not fully in accordance with the nature and structure of the collective phenomena in case. As such, the ar…