Ex Pluribus Unum: Articulating Res Publica in a Complex Society An International Symposium

is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political Economy and Moral Science at University of Arizona. His work is primarily in the areas of polycentric governance, varieties of capitalism, and history of political economy. His writings include Elinor Ostrom: An Intellectual Biography (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017), Understanding Capitalism: An Introduction to Political Economy (Polity Press / Wiley, under contract), Capitalist Alternatives: Models, Taxonomies, Scenarios (Routledge, 2015) (co-authored with Paul Dragos Aligica), Public Governance and the Classical Liberal Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2019) (co-authored with Paul Dragos Aligica and Peter Boettke), and Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School: Building a New Approach to Policy and the Social Sciences (Agenda Publishing / Columbia University Press, 2021) (co-edited with Jayme Lemke). His forthcoming book is Understanding Capitalism: An Introduction to Political Economy (Polity Press).

is a researcher and lecturer in political philosophy at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. His principal research interest is the social and institutional conditions under which people can pursue flourishing lives individually and in community. David’s academic writings include Citizenship and the Pursuit of the Worthy Life (Cambridge University Press, 2014), The Ethics of Citizenship in the 21st Century (edited volume, Springer, 2017), and numerous articles in international peer-reviewed journals. His current book project, The Polycentric Republic: A Theory of Civil Order for Free and Diverse Societies, advocates replacing the principle of State sovereignty adapted from monarchical absolutism with a more pluralistic and decentralized conception of civil order, sensitive to the governmental role of non-State organisations in many different spheres of life.

is assistant professor of politics, philosophy and economics at the University of Navarra. (Ph.D., Notre Dame - 2017). His research is primarily concerned to clarify the concept of common goods and apply it to contemporary challenges. He recently finished a book manuscript, entitled Beyond Price: The Market, the Corporation, and the Common Good, which applies Aristotelian pluralism to our two dominant economic institutions. Though we normally think of markets and firms only as vehicles of private interest, in fact they involve us all also in morally-formative shared projects oriented to common ends, which we ignore only at the price of injustice. Mark’s next big project, of which this essay is a part, is to give a fuller account of the Aristotelian pluralism as a theory of the common good. This research will draw on Aristotle and his modern readers, including Charles Taylor, Yves Simon, and Alasdair Macintyre.

is a Senior Programme Officer (Constitution Building) at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, where he has had practical engagement in constitutional change processes around the world, including Sudan, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Ukraine, Georgia, Egypt, Sri Lanka and Tuvalu. He was previously a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Dundee and an officer in the Royal Navy. He specialises in the comparative study of constitutions and the politics of constitutional change, with a focus on Westminster Model and Commonwealth democracies. His books include Constituting Scotland: The Scottish National Movement and the Westminster Model (Edinburgh University Press, 2016) and Westminster and the World: Commonwealth and Comparative Insights for Constitutional Reform (Bristol University Press, 2020).

is Assistant Professor of Moral Philosophy at the “Riccardo Massa” Department of Humanities for Education of Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca and Adjunct Professor of Ethics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. His research focuses on the ethics of citizenship in technological societies, the role of cultural and religious pluralism in the public sphere and the moral responsibilities of educators and social workers. He has been Associate Researcher at Université du Luxembourg and Visiting Researcher at the University of Notre Dame (USA) and at the National Institutes of Health (USA). In 2018 he published the book Contemporary Political Philosophy and Religion: Between Public Reason and Pluralism (London and New York: Routledge, 2018 – with C. Ungureanu).

is currently a PhD student in Real Estate and Planning at Henley Business School, University of Reading, and a research assistant working on a research project on organisational behaviour. He pursued an undergraduate degree in Liberal Arts at Thomas Aquinas College, USA, and a Master’s degree in philosophy at the University of Navarra. Esteban’s research focuses on civil society participation in local governments, and he is currently working on a case study that evaluates key participatory institutions within Buenos Aires city. His research interests are institutional theory, field theory (Niel Fligstein) and governance theory.

has over 20 years of experience in research, consultancy and teaching in multi-dimensional areas related to participatory governance and urban management. She is a managing trustee of The Urban Lab Foundation, which is incorporated as an NGO, with a mission to work towards making cities safe and livable. She has an interest to work towards strengthening of municipal services for the urban poor through participatory processes. She is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Management, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, where she facilitates skill and knowledge development for students to get trained as urban management professionals. She has designed and facilitated online courses on disaster risk management for the World Bank Institute (WBI). She has published paper on Commuter's Exposure to PM2.5. She has done post-graduation in planning and is currently pursuing PhD from CEPT University in the area of participatory governance.

is an economist and a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society at King’s College, London. He is also a Senior Researcher at Fundación Para el Progreso and an Affiliated Scholar at the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University Bloomington. He received his M.Sc. in Economics and Finance from Milan Polytechnic and his Ph.D. in Political Economy from the University of London. His research focuses on governance and institutional analysis. He has authored over 20 articles, essays, and books dealing with various aspects of the political economy of money and banking and the governance of social dilemmas. His work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Institutional Economics, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, and Economy and Society. His most recent book, Atrofia: Nuestra encrucijada y el desafío de la modernización, was published by RIL Editores in 2021.