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UNINA9910778684903321 |
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Titolo |
Explaining institutional change : ambiguity, agency, and power / / edited by James Mahoney, Kathleen Thelen [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010 |
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0-511-84767-X |
1-107-20341-4 |
9786612402654 |
0-511-65789-7 |
1-282-40265-X |
0-511-80641-8 |
0-511-65844-3 |
0-511-65658-0 |
0-511-65573-8 |
0-511-65713-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 236 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Organizational change |
Institutional economics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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This book contributes to emerging debates in political science and |
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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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UNINA9910828891803321 |
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Autore |
DeStefano Anthony M |
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The war on human trafficking [[electronic resource] ] : U.S. policy assessed / / Anthony M. DeStefano |
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New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2007 |
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1-281-15139-4 |
9786611151393 |
0-8135-4157-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Human trafficking - Government policy - United States |
Sex and law |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-165) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The barrio girls -- The emerging issue -- The global response -- "We need this bill" -- The learning curve -- The lady from Pitesti -- Finding Leku -- Sweat, toil, and tears -- Sexual slavery : the immigrant's gilded cage -- New initiatives, more controversy -- The bully pulpit -- Measuring effectiveness -- Final thoughts. |
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The United States has taken the lead in efforts to end international |
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human trafficking-the movement of peoples from one country to another, usually involving fraud, for the purpose of exploiting their labor. Examples that have captured the headlines include the 300 Chinese immigrants that were smuggled to the United States on the ship Golden Venture and the young Mexican women smuggled by the Cadena family to Florida where they were forced into prostitution and confined in trailers. The public's understanding of human trafficking is comprised of terrible stories like these, which the media covers in dramatic, but usually short-lived bursts. The more complicated, long-term story of how policy on trafficking has evolved has been largely ignored. In The War on Human Trafficking, Anthony M. DeStefano covers a decade of reporting on the policy battles that have surrounded efforts to abolish such practices, helping readers to understand the forced labor of immigrants as a major global human rights story. DeStefano details the events leading up to the creation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, the federal law that first addressed the phenomenon of trafficking in persons. He assesses the effectiveness of the 2000 law and its progeny, showing the difficulties encountered by federal prosecutors in building criminal cases against traffickers. The book also describes the tensions created as the Bush Administration tried to use the trafficking laws to attack prostitution and shows how the American response to these criminal activities was impacted by the events of September 11th and the War in Iraq. Parsing politics from practice, this important book gets beyond sensational stories of sexual servitude to show that human trafficking has a much broader scope and is inextricable from the powerful economic conditions that impel immigrants to put themselves at risk. |
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