Institutions and Social Conflict

Name: Institutions and Social Conflict
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ISBN: 9780521421898

ISBN-10: 0521421896

ISBN-13: 9780521421898

Edition: 1992

Authors: Jack Knight, Randall Calvert, Thrainn Eggertsson

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Many of the fundamental questions in social science entail an examination of the role played by social institutions. Why do we have so many social institutions? Why do they take one form in one society and quite different ones in others? In what ways do these institutions originally develop? And when and why do they change? Institutions and Social Conflict addresses these questions in two ways. First it offers a thorough critique of a wide range of theories of institutional change, from the classical accounts of Smith, Hume, Marx and Weber to the contemporary approaches of evolutionary theory, the theory of social conventions and the new institutionalism. Second, it develops a new theory of…

Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/30/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface



Introduction



The primary importance of distributional conflict



Institutions and strategic choice: information, sanctions and social expectations



The spontaneous emergence of social institutions: contemporary theories of institutional change



The spontaneous emergence of social institutions: a bargaining theory of emergence and change



Stability and change: conflicts over formal institutions



Conclusion


Notes


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