Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Explaining institutional change : ambiguity, agency, and power / edited by James Mahoney, Kathleen Thelen. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. - xiii, 236 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN: 9780521118835 (hardback) 0521118832 (hardback) 9780521134323 (pbk.) 0521134323 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2009009398

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Organizational change.
Institutional economics.

LC Class. No.: JF1525.O73 / E97 2010

Dewey Class. No.: /