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Book SynopsisNew Institutionalism is currently one of the most prominent approaches in political science. In this innovative collection, top scholars in the field offer substantial theoretical and analytical contributions to new institutionalist scholarship, engaging in debates about structure and agency, state-society relations, institutional creation and change, preference formation, and the complicated web of relationships between institutions, culture, ideas, identity, rationality, and interests.
From an analytical point of view, the contributors examine how the state and political institutions shape a variety of political phenomena and outcomes, namely, nationalism, democratic transition, party aggregation, policy networks, war and peace, international recognition, sovereignty, and selected public policies. They offer thorough theoretical reflections on the relationship between institutions and society as well as on the role of institutions in political analysis.
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Acknowledgments Contributors 1 New Institutionalism: Issues and Questions Andre Lecours PART ONE Theoretical Reflections on New Institutionalism 2 Ideas, Interests, and Institutions: Historical Institutionalism Revisited Daniel Beland 3 Theorizing Institutional Change Siobhan Harty 4 Institutions and Political Rationality Hudson Meadwell PART TWO Institutionalist Theory in Canadian Politics 5 Institutionalism in the Study of Canadian Politics: The English-Canadian Tradition Miriam Smith 6 New Institutionalism and Political Science in Quebec Linda Cardinal PART THREE New Institutionalism in Comparative Politics 7 New Institutionalism and the Crisis of Transitology Mamoudou Gazibo 8 Structuring Nationalism Andre Lecours 9 Institutional Change and Its Consequences: The Rational Foundations of Party System Change in India Csaba Nikolenyi PART FOUR New Institutionalism and Public Policy Analysis 10 Westminster Parliamentarism, Policy Networks, and the Behaviour of Political Actors Eric Montpetit 11 Social Learning, Third Way Politics, and Welfare State Redesign Denis Saint-Martin and Alexandra Dobrowolsky 12 National Institutional Veto Points and Continental Policy Change: Failing to Amend the U.S.-Canada Migratory Birds Convention Luc Juillet PART FIVE Institutionalist Analysis in International Relations 13 Moving beyond (or beneath) the Democratic Peace Theory: Intermediate-Level Institutions and Foreign Security Policy Norrin M. Ripsman 14 Canada and the Global Diffusion of 'One China'Der-Yuan Maxwell Wu 15 Constructing the State: Sovereignty in Comparative and International Perspectives -The View from East Asia Jeremy Paltiel
