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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784146503321

Titolo

Reconfiguring institutions across time and space [[electronic resource] ] : syncretic responses to challenges of political and economic transformation / / edited by Dennis Galvan and Rudra Sil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

ISBN

1-281-36167-4

9786611361679

0-230-60306-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Political evolution & institutional change

Altri autori (Persone)

GalvanDennis Charles

SilRudra <1967->

Disciplina

306.091724

Soggetti

Social institutions

Social change

Organizational change

Culture and globalization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Political Institutions; Economic and Social Institutions; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines how novel institutional forms emerge when actors creatively reinterpret and reconfigure imported or imposed institutional models, using case studies from East Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.