Explaining institutional change ambiguity, agency, and power

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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Mahoney, James 1968- (HerausgeberIn), Thelen, Kathleen Ann 1956- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2010
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • A theory of gradual institutional change / James Mahoney, Kathleen Thelen
  • Infiltrating the state: the evolution of health care reforms in Brazil, 1964-1988 / Tulia G. Falleti
  • The contradictory potential of institutions: the rise and decline of land documentation in Kenya / Ato Kwamena Onoma
  • Policymaking as political constraint: institutional development in the U.S. Social Security Program / Alan M. Jacobs
  • Altering authoritarianism: institutional complexity and autocratic agency in Indonesia / Dan Slater
  • Rethinking rules: creativity and constraint in the U.S. House of Representatives / Adam Sheingate
  • Historical institutionalism in rationalist and sociological perspective / Peter A. Hall