Rethinking Political Institutions The Art of the State

Name: Rethinking Political Institutions The Art of the State
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ISBN: 9780814740569

ISBN-10: 0814740561

ISBN-13: 9780814740569

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ian Shapiro, Stephen Skowronek, Daniel Galvin

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View the Table of Contents.nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; Read the Introduction. Institutions shape every dimension of politics. This volume collects original essays on how such institutions are formed, operated, and changed, both in theory and in practice. Ranging across formal institutions of government such as legislatures, courts, and bureaucracies and intermediary institutions such as labor unions and party systems, the contributors show how these instruments of control give shape to the state, articulate its relationships, and express its legitimacy. Rethinking Political Institutions captures the state of the art in the study of the art of the state. Drawing on some of the leading scholars in the…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 9/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 346
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.034

Stephen Skowronek is the Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale University and co-author most recently of The Search for American Political Development.

Daniel Galvin an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University.



Introduction



Institutional Study and Its Boundaries



Political Institutions and Social Power: Conceptual Explorations




Power and Political Institutions




Practical Institutionalism




Which Comes First, the Ideas or the Institutions?




Public Policies as Institutions




Institutional Structure and Political Change



Institutions and Social Change: The Evolution of Vocational Training in Germany




When Does Politics Create Policy? The Organizational Politics of Change




Lineages of the Rube Goldberg State: Building and Blurring Public Programs, 1900-1940




Government Institutions, Policy Cartels, and Policy Change




Institutions and Democracy



Institutions for Implementing Constitutional Law




Beyond Rational Self-interest: Authors and Actors in French Constitution-Making




Preserving the "Dignity and Influence of the Court": Political Supports for Judicial Review in the United States




The Significance of Cognitive and Moral Learning for Democratic Institutions



About the Contributors


About the Editors


Index