The development of political institutions [electronic book] : power, legitimacy, democracy / Federico Ferrara.
By: Ferrara, Federico [author]
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BookPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780472038985 (paperback); 9780472902781 (e-Book).Subject(s): Political development -- History | Political development -- Psychological aspects | Political development -- Cross-cultural stufdiesDDC classification: 320.1 Online resources: e-Book Summary: While the literature on "new institutionalism" explains the stability of institutional arrangements within countries and the divergence of paths of institutional development between countries, Federico Ferrara takes a "historical institutionalist" approach to theorize dynamic processes of institutional reproduction, institutional decay, and institutional change in explaining the development of political institutions. Ferrara synthesizes "power-based" or "power-distributional" explanations and "ideas-based" "legitimation explanations." He specifies the psychological "microfoundations" of processes of institutional development, drawing heavily from the findings of experimental psychology to ensure that the explanation is grounded in clear and realistic assumptions regarding human motivation, cognition, and behavior. Aside from being of interest to scholars and graduate students in political science and other social-scientific disciplines whose research concentrates on the genesis of political institutions, their evolution over time, and their impact on the stability of political order and the quality of governance, the book will be required reading in graduate courses and seminars in comparative politics where the study of institutions and their development ranks among the subfield's most important subjects.
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While the literature on "new institutionalism" explains the stability of institutional arrangements within countries and the divergence of paths of institutional development between countries, Federico Ferrara takes a "historical institutionalist" approach to theorize dynamic processes of institutional reproduction, institutional decay, and institutional change in explaining the development of political institutions. Ferrara synthesizes "power-based" or "power-distributional" explanations and "ideas-based" "legitimation explanations." He specifies the psychological "microfoundations" of processes of institutional development, drawing heavily from the findings of experimental psychology to ensure that the explanation is grounded in clear and realistic assumptions regarding human motivation, cognition, and behavior. Aside from being of interest to scholars and graduate students in political science and other social-scientific disciplines whose research concentrates on the genesis of political institutions, their evolution over time, and their impact on the stability of political order and the quality of governance, the book will be required reading in graduate courses and seminars in comparative politics where the study of institutions and their development ranks among the subfield's most important subjects.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
While the literature on "new institutionalism" explains the stability of institutional arrangements within countries and the divergence of paths of institutional development between countries, Federico Ferrara takes a "historical institutionalist" approach to theorize dynamic processes of institutional reproduction, institutional decay, and institutional change in explaining the development of political institutions. Ferrara synthesizes "power-based" or "power-distributional" explanations and "ideas-based" "legitimation explanations." He specifies the psychological "microfoundations" of processes of institutional development, drawing heavily from the findings of experimental psychology to ensure that the explanation is grounded in clear and realistic assumptions regarding human motivation, cognition, and behavior. Aside from being of interest to scholars and graduate students in political science and other social-scientific disciplines whose research concentrates on the genesis of political institutions, their evolution over time, and their impact on the stability of political order and the quality of governance, the book will be required reading in graduate courses and seminars in comparative politics where the study of institutions and their development ranks among the subfield's most important subjects.
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Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. ix)
- Chapter 1 Institutional Development
- The Dynamics of Power and (De)legitimation (p. 1)
- Chapter 2 Institutional Reproduction
- Path Dependence and the Dynamic Stability of Politics (p. 17)
- Chapter 3 Institutional Decay
- The Logic of Self-Undermining Processes (p. 61)
- Chapter 4 Institutional Change
- The Incremental Logic of Political Development (p. 109)
- Chapter 5 Institutional Engineering
- The Purposive Design of Political Institutions (p. 157)
- References (p. 183)
- Index (p. 197)
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