Explaining institutional change in Europe / Adrienne Heritier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Windhoff-Héritier, Adrienne, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social institutions--European Union countries.

Social institutions.

Social change--European Union countries.

Social change.

Decision making--European Union countries.

Decision making.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How and why do institutions change? Institutions, understood as rules of behaviour constraining and facilitating social interaction, are subject to different forms and processes of change. A change may be designed intentionally on a large scale and then be followed by a period of only incremental adjustments to new conditions. But institutions may also emerge as informal rules, persist for a long time and only be formalized later. Why? The causes, processes and outcomes ofinstitutional change raise a number of conceptual, theoretical and empirical questions. While we know a lot about the creat

Contents:

Contents; List of Tables; 1. Introduction; 2. Plan of the Book; 3. Theories of Institutional Change; 4. Empirical Cases; 5. Conclusion: Explaining Institutional Change in Europe ... and Beyond; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-263) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-160888-2

1-281-15524-1

9786611155247

0-19-153827-2

1-4356-2369-X

OCLC:

731646898