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Title Explaining institutional change : ambiguity, agency, and power / edited by James Mahoney, Kathleen Thelen.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 236 pages) : illustrations
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Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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. 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.
Summary 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.
Access Access restricted to York University faculty, staff and students.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Organizational change.
Organizational change.
Institutional economics.
Institutional economics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic book.
Added Author Mahoney, James, 1968-
Thelen, Kathleen Ann.
Other Form: Print version: Explaining institutional change. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521118835 (DLC) 2009009398 (OCoLC)316513189
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