Jaymes S Lemke's ‘Polycentricism, self-governance and the case of married women’s rights reform’, published in (2011-12) The Annual Proceedings of the Wealth and
Well-Being of Nations: Volume IV, is available on SSRN
The abstract reads:
Self-enforcing constitutional
constraints provide the means for individuals to discipline government actors.
This paper utilizes the theory of polycentric orders as developed by Vincent
and Elinor Ostrom to analyze jurisdictional competition as one such
self-enforcing constraint. The historical case study of married women’s rights
reform in the 19th century is suggested as an appropriate test case for
evaluating the feasibility of this mechanism as a means of preserving the
self-governing nature of a society. This paper was prepared for the Miller
Upton Forum on the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations at Beloit College.
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