Explaining institutional change : ambiguity, agency, and power / / edited by James Mahoney, Kathleen Thelen [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 236 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 352.3/67
• Soggetto topico: Organizational change; Institutional economics
• Persona (resp. second.): MahoneyJames <1968->; ThelenKathleen Ann
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Explaining institutional change
• ISBN: 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778684903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II