Structuring Politics

"More than just a collection of essays, Structuring Politics is a showcase revealing how historically-grounded institutional analysis can push forward the frontiers of comparative politics. The authors use a diverse and rich subject matter to show, not simply that 'institutions matter,' but how they matter in shaping--and being shaped by--the political process over time." Hugh Heclo, George Mason University

• Preface; 1. Historical institutionalism in comparative politics Kathleen Thelen and Sven Steinmo; 2. Labor market institutions and working class strength Bo Rothstein; 3. The rules of the game: the logic of health policy-making in France, Switzerland, and Sweden Ellen Immergut; 4. The movement from Keynesianism to monetarism Peter A. Hall; 5. Political structure, state policy, and industrial change: early railroad policy in the United States and Prussia Colleen A. Dunlavy; 6. Institutions and political change: working class formation in England and the United States, 1820–1896 Victoria C. Hattam; 7. Ideas and the politics of bounded innovation Margaret Weir; 8. The establishment of work-welfare programmes in the United States and Britain: politics, ideas, and institutions Desmond S. King.