ISBN:
9786612151477
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9781282151475
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9780203876282
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (VI, 168 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. UK MyiLibrary 2009 Electronic reproduction
Edition:
Also available in print
Parallel Title:
Print version Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development : The Bloomington School
DDC:
306.01
Keywords:
Rational choice theory
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Institutional economics
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Social institutions
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Bloomington institutional analysis and development research program new institutional theory
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This important volume presents a systematic analysis of the Bloomington Institutional and Development (IAD) Research Program that developed a unique and extremely successful combination of interdisciplinary theoretical and empirical approaches for the study of social sciences
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I From metropolitan reform to a theory of governance systems: The origins and main themes of the Bloomington research program; 1 Political economy, polycentricity and the metropolitan reform debate; 2 Crossing the great divide: The nature of public economies; Part II The "human condition" and the foundations of social order: Elements of a social philosophy of institutionalism; 3 Knowledge and institutions: Developing a social philosophy of institutional order and change
Description / Table of Contents:
4 Ideas, language and meaning: An unorthodox approach to institutional order and institutional analysisPart III The Bloomington School in its intellectual context: Afamily of themes and schools of thought; 5 Competing disciplines, methodological divides and emerging research agendas: The Bloomington School in its interdisciplinary setting; 6 Public policy analysis, Public Choice and the old "new science of politics"; Conclusions: Ascience of association, a science of citizenship, a science of liberty
Description / Table of Contents:
Postscript: Rethinking institutional analysis and development. Dialogues with Vincent and Elinor OstromBibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [160]-166) and index
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Also available in print.
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Electronic reproduction
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