Reconfiguring Institutions Across Time and Space

Syncretic Responses to Challenges of Political and Economic Transformation
2007. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4039-7817-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

Reihe: Political Evolution and Institutional Change

This book examines how novel institutional forms emerge when actors creatively reinterpret and reconfigure imported or imposed institutional models, using case studies from East Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Galvan, D.

Sil, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction The Dilemma of Institutional Adaptation and the Role of Syncretism; D.C.Galvan & R.Sil PART I: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS Syncretism and Local-Level Democracy in Senegal; D.C.Galvan Institutional Syncretism and the Chinese Armed Forces; T.Bickford Institutional Syncretism in Argentina's Party System and Peronist Political Culture; P.Ostiguy (En)Durable Syncretism: Hizballah in the "Space Between"; S.Philbrick Yadav PART II: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS The Dynamics of Institutional Adaptation and the Fruitful Emergence of Managerial Syncretism in Japan; R.Sil Legal Syncretism and Family Change in Urban and Rural China; N.J.Diamant Working Is Celebrating: The Syncretic Politics of Labor Transformation in Rural Zambia; P.Hoon Pathways of Institutional Diffusion Under Leninism: A Historical Comparison of Romania and Hungary; C.Chen Brazil's 1964-1967 Economic Stabilization Plan as Institutional Syncretism; C.Kearney

Über Autor(innen)

DENNIS. C. GALVAN is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Oregon. RUDRA SIL is Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania.