Explaining Institutional Change (eBook, PDF)

Ambiguity, Agency, and Power
Redaktion: Mahoney, James

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Produktbeschreibung

This book contributes to emerging debates in political science and sociology on institutional change. Its introductory essay proposes a new framework for analyzing incremental change that is grounded in a power-distributional view of institutions and that emphasizes ongoing struggles within but also over prevailing institutional arrangements. Five empirical essays then bring the general theory to life by evaluating its causal propositions in the context of sustained analyses of specific instances of incremental change. These essays range widely across substantive topics and across times and places, including cases from the United States, Africa, Latin America, and Asia. The book closes with a chapter reflecting on the possibilities for productive exchange in the analysis of change among scholars associated with different theoretical approaches to institutions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511654633
• Artikelnr.: 38211191

Inhaltsangabe

1. A theory of gradual institutional change James Mahoney and Kathleen
Thelen; 2. Infiltrating the state: the evolution of health care reforms in
Brazil, 1964-88 Tulia G. Falleti; 3. The contradictory potential of
institutions: the rise and decline of land documentation in Kenya Ato
Kwamena Onoma; 4. Policymaking as political constraint: institutional
development in the US social security program Alan M. Jacobs; 5. Altering
authoritarianism: institutional complexity and autocratic agency in
Indonesia Dan Slater; 6. Rethinking rules: creativity and constraint in the
house of representatives Adam Sheingate; 7. Historical institutionalism in
rationalist and sociological perspective Peter A. Hall.