Institutional Change and Globalization / / John L. Campbell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Campbell, John L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 4 line illus. 10 tables.

This book is about institutional change, how to recognize it, when it occurs, and the mechanisms that cause it to happen. It is the first book to identify problems with the "new institutional analysis," which has emerged as one of the dominant approaches to the study of organizations, economic and political sociology, comparative political economy, politics, and international relations. The book confronts several important problems in institutional analysis, and offers conceptual, methodological, and theoretical tools for resolving them. It argues that the paradigms of institutional analysis--rational choice, organizational, and historical institutionalism--share a set of common analytic problems. Chief among them: failure to define clearly what institutional change is; failure to specify the mechanisms responsible for institutional change; and failure to explain adequately how "ideas" other than self-interests affect institutional change. To demonstrate the utility of his tools for resolving the problems of institutional analysis, Campbell applies them to the phenomenon of globalization. In doing so, he not only corrects serious misunderstandings about globalization, but also develops a new theory of institutional change. This book advances the new institutional analysis by showing how the different paradigms can benefit from constructive dialogue and cross-fertilization.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE Problems of Institutional Analysis -- CHAPTER TWO The Problem of Change -- CHAPTER THREE The Problem of Mechanisms -- CHAPTER FOUR The Problem of Ideas -- CHAPTER FIVE The Problem of Globalization -- CHAPTER SIX Where Do We Go from Here? -- APPENDIX Analysis of Tax Levels and Structures for Country Subgroups -- References -- Index