Political Creativity : : Reconfiguring Institutional Order and Change / / ed. by Gerald Berk, Victoria Hattam, Dennis C. Galvan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
• MitwirkendeR: Amberg, Stephen,; Ansell, Chris,; Berk, Gerald,; Bruyneel, Kevin,; Galvan, Dennis C.,; Harrold, Deborah,; Hattam, Victoria,; Herrera, Yoshiko M.,; Herrigel, Gary,; Lowndes, Joseph,; Onoma, Ato Kwamena,; Sheingate, Adam,; Sil, Rudra,; Voskamp, Ulrich,; Wittke, Volker,
• HerausgeberIn: Berk, Gerald,; Galvan, Dennis C.,; Hattam, Victoria,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 1 illus.

Political Creativity intervenes in the lively debate currently underway in the social sciences on institutional change. Editors Gerald Berk, Dennis C. Galvan, and Victoria Hattam, along with the contributors to the volume, show how institutions inevitably combine order and change, because formal rul...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: Beyond Dualist Social Science
• PART I. Relationality
• Chapter 1. Processes of Creative Syncretism
• Chapter 2. Ecological Explanation
• Chapter 3. Governance Architectures for Learning and Self-Recomposition in Chinese Industrial Upgrading
• Chapter 4. Reconfiguring Industry Structure
• PART II. Assemblage
• Chapter 5. Animating Institutional Skeletons
• Chapter 6. Creating Political Strategy, Controlling Political Work
• Chapter 7. Accidental Hegemony
• Chapter 8. The Fluidity of Labor Politics in Postcommunist Transitions
• PART III. Time
• Chapter 9. From Birmingham to Baghdad
• Chapter 10. The Trouble with Amnesia
• Chapter 11. Interest in the Absence of Articulation
• Conclusion. An Invitation to Political Creativity
• Notes
• Contributors
• Index
• Acknowledgments