In sum, this is a state-of-the-art academic work on both the role of ideas in politics and the analytical utility that derives from studying them.
Finally, the book evaluates and clarifies developments in both theory and research while identifying future research directions.
Featuring discussions of comparative politics, public policy, and international relations, this collection from editor André Lecours is a comprehensive examination of the subject, making it a crucial addition to any political scientist?s ...
The book reviews and integrates the most important recent developments in this rapidly evolving field and strengthens and elaborates the author’s widely accepted “pillars” framework, which supports research and theory construction.
Collier, D. and J. E. Mahon (1993) Conceptual “Stretching” Revisited: Adapting Categories in Comparative Analysis, American Political Science Review 87, 845–55. Collier, R. B. and D. Collier (1991) Shaping the Political Arena: Critical ...
This volume integrates two increasingly visible streams of research_economic sociology and new institutional economics_to better understand how ties among individuals and groups facilitate economic activity alongside and against the ...
This is an assessment of the reluctance of American education institutions to undergo change and reform at a time when it is considered necessary.
Isaac, Larry W., Susan M. Carlson, and Mary P. Mathis. 1994. “Quality of Quantity in Comparative / Historical Analysis: Temporally Changing Wage Labor Regimes in the United States and Sweden.” Pp. 54–92 in The Comparative Political ...
This volume offers, for the first time, both often-cited foundation works and the latest writings of scholars associated with the "institutional" approach to organization analysis.
A thorough critique of theories of institutional change followed by the development of a new theory emphasising the role of distributional conflict in the emergence of social institutions.