| Description |
vi, 346 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Political institutions and social power: conceptual explorations / Claus Offe -- Power and political institutions / Terry M. Moe -- Practical institutionalism / John Freejohn -- Which comes first, the ideas or the institutions? / Rogers M. Smith -- Public policies as institutions / Paul Pierson -- Institutions and social change: the evolution of vocational training in Germany / Kathleen Thelen -- When does politics create policy? The organizational politics of change / Margaret Weir -- Lineages of the Rube Goldberg state: building and blurring public programs, 1900-1940 / Elisabeth S. Clemens -- Government institutions, policy cartels, and policy-change / R. Kent Weaver -- Institutions for implementing constitutional law / Mark Tushnet -- Beyond rational self-interest: authors and actors in French constitution-making / John Elster -- Preserving the "dignity and influence of the court": political supports for judicial review in the United States / Keith E. Whittington -- The significance of cognitive and moral learning for democratic institutions / Ulrich K. Preuss |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Constitutional law.
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Democracy.
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Political science.
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Public administration.
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State, The.
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| Author |
Galvin, Daniel.
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Shapiro, Ian.
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Skowronek, Stephen.
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| LC no. |
2005035677 |
| ISBN |
081474026X (hbk.) |
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9780814740262 (hbk.) |
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