Andrew P. Cortell is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Affairs at Lewis and Clark College. Susan Peterson is Associate Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of Crisis Bargaining and the State (1996).

Altered States is an important study of the sources of institutional change. It rightly focuses on advancing our understanding of incremental change and intentional design. The rich variety of empirical examples highlight the important consequences of institutional reforms.

• Chapter 1 Agents, Structures, and Domestic Institutional ChangeChapter 2 European Judicial Review and National Institutional ChangeChapter 3 Explaining the Lack of Institutional Change in CubaChapter 4 Altering the U.S. State: Post-Vietnam Changes in Foreign Policy AuthorityChapter 5 Institutional Change and Post-Communist States: The Transformation of Civilian Control in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and RussiaChapter 6 Institutional Dynamics in Collapsing Empires: Domestic Structural Change in the USSR, Post-Soviet Russia, and Independent UkraineChapter 7 Institutionalizing the Regulation of Inward Foreign Direct InvestmentChapter 8 Breaking the Policy Bias: Windows of Opportunity and the Realignment of Structural Constraints in Three Government DepartmentsChapter 9 The Causes and Consequences of Institutional Change