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Explaining institutional change : ambiguity, agency, and power /

This title contributes to emerging debates in political science and sociology on institutional change. The introductory essay proposes a new framework for analyzing incremental change, and subsequent chapters provide empirical case studies from the United States, Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mahoney, James, 1968-, Thelen, Kathleen Ann
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. A theory of gradual institutional change / James Mahoney and Kathleen Thelen
  • 2. Infiltrating the state: the evolution of health care reforms in Brazil, 1964-1988 / 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 U.S. 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 U.S. House of Representatives / Adam Sheingate
  • 7. Historical institutionalism in rationalist and sociological perspective / Peter A. Hall.