Political creativity : reconfiguring institutional order and change / edited by Gerald Berk, Dennis C. Galvan, and Victoria Hattam.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berk, Gerald.

Galvan, Dennis Charles.

Hattam, Victoria Charlotte.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative ability--Political aspects--Case studies.

Creative ability.

Organizational change--Case studies.

Organizational change.

Political science--Research--Methodology.

Political science.

Political sociology--Research--Methodology.

Political sociology.

Public institutions--Case studies.

Public institutions.

Social institutions--Case studies.

Social institutions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Political Creativity intervenes in the lively debate currently underway in the social sciences on institutional change. Editors Gerald Berk, Dennis C. Galvan, and Victoria Hattam, along with the contributors to the volume, show how institutions inevitably combine order and change, because formal rules and roles are always available for reconfiguration. Creative action is not the exception but the very process through which all political formations are built, promulgated and changed. Drawing on the rich cache of antidualist theoretical traditions, from poststructuralism and ecological theory to constructivism and pragmatism, a diverse group of scholars probes acts of social innovation in many locations: land boards in Botswana, Russian labor relations, international statistics, global supply chains, Islamic economics in Algeria, Islamic sects and state authority in Senegal, and civil rights reform, colonization, industrial policy, and political consulting in the United States. These political scientists reconceptualize agency as a relational process that continually reorders the nature and meaning of people and things, order as an assemblage that necessitates creative tinkering and interpretation, and change as the unruly politics of time that confounds the conventional ordering of past, present, and future. Political Creativity offers analytical tools for reimagining order and change as entangled processes. Contributors: Stephen Amberg, Chris Ansell, Gerald Berk, Kevin Bruyneel, Dennis C. Galvan, Deborah Harrold, Victoria Hattam, Yoshiko M. Herrera, Gary Herrigel, Joseph Lowndes, Ato Kwamena Onoma, Adam Sheingate, Rudra Sil, Ulrich Voskamp, Volker Wittke.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction: Beyond Dualist Social Science

Chapter 1. Processes of Creative Syncretism

Chapter 2. Ecological Explanation

Chapter 3. Governance Architectures for Learning and Self-Recomposition in Chinese Industrial Upgrading

Chapter 4. Reconfiguring Industry Structure

Chapter 5. Animating Institutional Skeletons

Chapter 6. Creating Political Strategy, Controlling Political Work

Chapter 7. Accidental Hegemony

Chapter 8. The Fluidity of Labor Politics in Postcommunist Transitions

Chapter 9. From Birmingham to Baghdad

Chapter 10. The Trouble with Amnesia

Chapter 11. Interest in the Absence of Articulation

Conclusion. An Invitation to Political Creativity

Notes

Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780812209204

0812209206

OCLC:

868493207