Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521428300 ISBN 13: 9780521428309

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

This volume brings together original essays by scholars working on a diverse range of empirical issues, but whose work is in each case informed by a "historical institutional" approach to the study of politics. By bringing these pieces together, the volume highlights the methodological and theoretical foundations of this approach and illustrates the general contributions it has made to comparative politics. The essays demonstrate the potential of the approach to illuminate a broad range of issues such as how and why institutions change, how political ideas are filtered through institutional structures in the formation of specific policies, and how institutional structure can have unintended effects on the shaping of policy. Through these richly detailed pieces, the reader is provided not only a thorough understanding of the method of analysis but also an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of the approach.

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Book Description

These essays demonstrate how the "historical institutional" approach reveals the nature of institutional change--how political ideas are filtered through institutional structures as well as the unintended effects of institutional structure on the shaping of policy.

About the Author

Professor Sven Steinmo holds the Chair in Public Policy and Political Economy at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. He is also a Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an Honorary Professor at Odense University, Denmark. His writing includes Taxation and Democracy (Winner, 1994 Best Book Prize, Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association), Structuring Politics (coedited with Kathleen Thelen), and Political Evolution and Policy Change (coedited with Bo Rothstein).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521428300
• ISBN 13: 9780521428309
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Steinmo Sven, Thelen Kathleen, Longstreth Frank