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 ofinstitutions and that emphasizes ongoing struggles within but also over prevailing institutional arrangements. Five empirical essays then bring the generaltheory 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 achapter reflecting on the possibilities for productive exchange in the analysis of change among scholars associated with different theoretical approaches to institutions. INDICE: 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 house of representatives Adam Sheingate; 7. Historical institutionalism in rationalist and sociological perspective Peter A. Hall.

• ISBN: 978-0-521-11883-5
• Editorial: Cambridge University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 252
• Fecha Publicación: 07/01/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés