{"product_id":"political-creativity-9780812245448","title":"Political Creativity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePolitical Creativity intervenes in the lively debate over institutional change by showing how rules and roles are always subject to reconfiguration. Ever-present creative action is explored in many settings, from land boards in Botswana to civil rights in the US.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The breadth of the chapters assembled by the editors is impressive, covering a wide array of topics across the traditional political science subfields. The discipline of political science sorely needs this book in order to move beyond the agency\/structure dichotomy that has stymied theorizing and beyond ad hoc accounts of agency that have weakened explanation.\" * Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, University of Utah *\u003cbr\u003e\"Original and timely. \u003ci\u003ePolitical Creativity\u003c\/i\u003e will offer a needed advance to scholarly creativity within academic institutional discourse.\" * Thomas M. Wilson, Binghamton University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Beyond Dualist Social Science: The Mangle of Order and Change\u003cbr\u003e PART I. RELATIONALITY\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Processes of Creative Syncretism: Experiential Origins of Institutional Order and Change\u003cbr\u003e —Gerald Berk and Dennis C. Galvan\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Ecological Explanation\u003cbr\u003e —Chris Ansell\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Governance Architectures for Learning and Self-Recomposition in Chinese Industrial Upgrading\u003cbr\u003e —Gary Herrigel, Volker Wittke, and Ulrich Voskamp\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Reconfiguring Industry Structure: Obama and the Rescue of the Auto Companies\u003cbr\u003e —Steven Amberg\u003cbr\u003e PART II. ASSEMBLAGE\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Animating Institutional Skeletons: The Contributions of Subaltern Resistance to the Reinforcement of Land Boards in Botswana\u003cbr\u003e —Ato Kwamena Onoma\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Creating Political Strategy, Controlling Political Work: Edward Bernays and the Emergence of the Political Consultant\u003cbr\u003e —Adam Sheingate\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Accidental Hegemony: How the System of National Accounts Became a Global Institution\u003cbr\u003e —Yoshiko M. Herrera\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. The Fluidity of Labor Politics in Postcommunist Transitions: Rethinking the Narrative of Russian Labor Quiescence\u003cbr\u003e —Rudra Sil\u003cbr\u003e PART III. TIME\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. From Birmingham to Baghdad: The Micropolitics of Partisan Identification\u003cbr\u003e —Victoria Hattam and Joseph Lowndes\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. The Trouble with Amnesia: Collective Memory and Colonial Injustice in the United States\u003cbr\u003e —Kevin Bruyneel\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. Interest in the Absence of Articulation: Small Business and Islamist Parties in Algeria\u003cbr\u003e —Deborah Harrold\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: An Invitation to Political Creativity\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405722362199,"sku":"9780812245448","price":67.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812245448.jpg?v=1730493392","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/political-creativity-9780812245448","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}