Reconfiguring Institutions Across Time and Space

Syncretic Responses to Challenges of Political and Economic Transformation
Herausgeber: Galvan, D.; Sil, R.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us / Palgrave Macmillan US
• 2007 edition
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9781349538119
• ISBN-10: 1349538116
• Artikelnr.: 45077380

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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