New institutionalism : theory and analysis / edited by André Lecours.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lecours, André, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political sociology.

Social institutions.

Physical Description:

xii, 363 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2005]

Contents:

1 New Institutionalism: Issues and Questions / Andre Lecours 3

Part 1 Theoretical Reflections on New Institutionalism 27

2 Ideas, Interests, and Institutions: Historical Institutionalism Revisited / Daniel Beland 29

3 Theorizing Institutional Change / Siobhan Harty 51

4 Institutions and Political Rationality / Hudson Meadwell 80

Part 2 Institutionalist Theory in Canadian Politics 99

5 Institutionalism in the Study of Canadian Politics: The English-Canadian Tradition / Miriam Smith 101

6 New Institutionalism and Political Science in Quebec / Linda Cardinal 128

Part 3 New Institutionalism in Comparative Politics 151

7 New Institutionalism and the Crisis of Transitology / Mamoudou Gazibo 155

8 Structuring Nationalism / Andre Lecours 176

9 Institutional Change and Its Consequences: The Rational Foundations of Party System Change in India / Csaba Nikolenyi 201

Part 4 New Institutionalism and Public Policy Analysis 223

10 Westminster Parliamentarism, Policy Networks, and the Behaviour of Political Actors / Eric Montpetit 225

11 Social Learning, Third Way Politics, and Welfare State Redesign / Denis Saint-Martin, Alexandra Dobrowolsky 245

12 National Institutional Veto Points and Continental Policy Change: Failing to Amend the U.S.-Canada Migratory Birds Convention / Luc Juillet 276

Part 5 Institutionalist Analysis in International Relations 297

13 Moving beyond (or beneath) the Democratic Peace Theory: Intermediate-Level Institutions and Foreign Security Policy / Norrin M. Ripsman 301

14 Canada and the Global Diffusion of 'One China' / Der-Yuan Maxwell Wu 319

15 Constructing the State: Sovereignty in Comparative and International Perspectives - The View from East Asia / Jeremy Paltiel 341.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0802039006

0802048811

OCLC:

57638184