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The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions

Edited by R. A. W. Rhodes, Sarah A. Binder, and Bert A. Rockman

Price: £ (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927569-4
Publication date: 24 August 2006
834 pages, figures & tables, 246x171 mm
Series: Oxford Handbooks of Political Science
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  • Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today




  • The only fully comprehensive ten-volume survey of the whole discipline
  • Not just a review of the discipline, but a major contribution to it
  • The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions combines traditional concerns of political science with constitutions, federalism, and bureaucracy with more recent interest in theory and the constructed nature of institutions
  • Engagingly written by an illustrious team of international contributors
The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual Political Analysis, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Law and Politics, Political Behavior, Political Institutions, and Political Methodology. The project as a whole is under the General Editorship of Robert E. Goodin, with each volume being edited by a distinguished international group of specialists in their respective fields. The books set out not just to report on the discipline, but to shape it. The series will be an indispensable point of reference for anyone working in political science and adjacent disciplines.

The study of political institutions is among the founding pillars of political science. With the rise of the 'new institutionalism', the study of institutions has returned to its place in the sun. This volume provides a comprehensive survey of where we are in the study of political institutions, covering both the traditional concerns of political science with constitutions, federalism and bureaucracy and more recent interest in theory and the constructed nature of institutions. The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions draws together a galaxy of distinguished contributors drawn from leading universities across the world. Authoritative reviews of the literature and assessments of future research directions will help to set the research agenda for the next decade.

Readership: Scholars and students of political science and adjacent disciplines, especially law, business, and economics.

Contents
Part I. Approaches
1. Normative Institutionalism , James March and Johan P. Olsen
2. Rational Choice Institutionalism , Ken Shepsle
3. Historical Institutionalism , Elizabeth Sanders
4. Constructivist Institutionalism , Colin Hay
5. Network Institutionalism , Chris Ansell
6. Old Institutionalism , R. A. W. Rhodes
Part II. Institutions
7. State and State-Building , Bob Jessop
8. Development of Civil Society , Jose Harris
9. Economic Institutions , Michael Moran
10. The Institutions of Social Inclusion and Exclusion , Mathew Holden
11. Constitutions , Peter Shane
12. Constitutions (Comparative) , Josep Colomer
13. American Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations , Alberta Sbragia
Under the general editorship of Robert E. Goodin, a large group of intellectually attractive authors has charted the entire field of political science in an unbiased multi-paradigmatic way. Minerva's owl would make a nice logo for this monumental collective work of the Oxford Handbooks: what moves us forward is looking back at what we know.
14. Comparative Federalism , Brian Galligan
15. Territorial Institutions , Jean Claude Thoening
16. Executives - the American presidency , William Howell
17. Executives in Parliamentary Systems , R. A. W. Rhodes
18. Comparative Executive-Legislative Relations , Mathew Shugart
19. Public Bureaucracies , Don Kettl
20. Welfare State , Jacob Hacker
21. The Regulatory State? , John Braithwaite
22. Legislative Organization , John Carey
23. Legislative Behavior , Ric Uslaner and Thomas Zittel
24. Bicameralism , John Uhr
25. Comparative Local Governance , Gerry Stoker
26. Judicial Institutions , Jim Gibson
27. Judicial Processes , Kevin McGuire
28. Political Parties , John Aldrich
29. Electoral Systems , Shaun Bowler
30. Institutions of direct democracy , Ian Budge
31. International Political Institutions , Richard Higgott
32. International Security Institutions , John Duffield
33. International Economic Institutions , Lisa Martin
34. International NGOs , Ann Florini
Part III. Past and Present
35. Encounters with Modernity , Samuel H. Beer
36. About Institutions, Mainly, But Not Exclusively, Political , Jean Blondel
37. Thinking Institutionally , Hugh Heclo
38. Political Institutions - Old and New , Klaus Von Beyme

Authors, editors, and contributors


Edited by R. A. W. Rhodes, Professor of Political Science, Australian National University,
Sarah A. Binder, Professor of Political Science, George Washington University, and
Bert A. Rockman, Professor of Political Science and Head of the Department, Purdue University


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