Gerald Berk is Professor of Political Science at University of Oregon and author of Louis D. Brandeis and the Making of Regulated Competition, 1900-1930. Dennis C. Galvan is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Oregon and author of The State Must Be Our Master of Fire: How Peasants Craft Culturally Sustainable Development in Senegal. Victoria Hattam is Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research and author of In the Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States.

"The breadth of the chapters assembled by the editors is impressive, covering a wide array of topics across the traditional political science subfields. The discipline of political science sorely needs this book in order to move beyond the agency/structure dichotomy that has stymied theorizing and beyond ad hoc accounts of agency that have weakened explanation."-Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, University of Utah "Original and timely. Political Creativity will offer a needed advance to scholarly creativity within academic institutional discourse."-Thomas M. Wilson, Binghamton University

• Introduction: Beyond Dualist Social Science: The Mangle of Order and ChangePART I. RELATIONALITYChapter 1. Processes of Creative Syncretism: Experiential Origins of Institutional Order and Change-Gerald Berk and Dennis C. GalvanChapter 2. Ecological Explanation-Chris AnsellChapter 3. Governance Architectures for Learning and Self-Recomposition in Chinese Industrial Upgrading-Gary Herrigel, Volker Wittke, and Ulrich VoskampChapter 4. Reconfiguring Industry Structure: Obama and the Rescue of the Auto Companies-Steven AmbergPART II. ASSEMBLAGEChapter 5. Animating Institutional Skeletons: The Contributions of Subaltern Resistance to the Reinforcement of Land Boards in Botswana-Ato Kwamena OnomaChapter 6. Creating Political Strategy, Controlling Political Work: Edward Bernays and the Emergence of the Political Consultant-Adam SheingateChapter 7. Accidental Hegemony: How the System of National Accounts Became a Global Institution-Yoshiko M. HerreraChapter 8. The Fluidity of Labor Politics in Postcommunist Transitions: Rethinking the Narrative of Russian Labor Quiescence-Rudra SilPART III. TIMEChapter 9. From Birmingham to Baghdad: The Micropolitics of Partisan Identification-Victoria Hattam and Joseph LowndesChapter 10. The Trouble with Amnesia: Collective Memory and Colonial Injustice in the United States-Kevin BruyneelChapter 11. Interest in the Absence of Articulation: Small Business and Islamist Parties in Algeria-Deborah HarroldConclusion: An Invitation to Political CreativityNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments

Gerald Berk is Professor of Political Science at University of Oregon and author of Louis D. Brandeis and the Making of Regulated Competition, 1900-1930. Dennis C. Galvan is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Oregon and author of The State Must Be Our Master of Fire: How Peasants Craft Culturally Sustainable Development in Senegal. Victoria Hattam is Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research and author of In the Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States.

"The breadth of the chapters assembled by the editors is impressive, covering a wide array of topics across the traditional political science subfields. The discipline of political science sorely needs this book in order to move beyond the agency/structure dichotomy that has stymied theorizing and beyond ad hoc accounts of agency that have weakened explanation."-Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, University of Utah "Original and timely. Political Creativity will offer a needed advance to scholarly creativity within academic institutional discourse."-Thomas M. Wilson, Binghamton University

• Introduction: Beyond Dualist Social Science: The Mangle of Order and ChangePART I. RELATIONALITYChapter 1. Processes of Creative Syncretism: Experiential Origins of Institutional Order and Change-Gerald Berk and Dennis C. GalvanChapter 2. Ecological Explanation-Chris AnsellChapter 3. Governance Architectures for Learning and Self-Recomposition in Chinese Industrial Upgrading-Gary Herrigel, Volker Wittke, and Ulrich VoskampChapter 4. Reconfiguring Industry Structure: Obama and the Rescue of the Auto Companies-Steven AmbergPART II. ASSEMBLAGEChapter 5. Animating Institutional Skeletons: The Contributions of Subaltern Resistance to the Reinforcement of Land Boards in Botswana-Ato Kwamena OnomaChapter 6. Creating Political Strategy, Controlling Political Work: Edward Bernays and the Emergence of the Political Consultant-Adam SheingateChapter 7. Accidental Hegemony: How the System of National Accounts Became a Global Institution-Yoshiko M. HerreraChapter 8. The Fluidity of Labor Politics in Postcommunist Transitions: Rethinking the Narrative of Russian Labor Quiescence-Rudra SilPART III. TIMEChapter 9. From Birmingham to Baghdad: The Micropolitics of Partisan Identification-Victoria Hattam and Joseph LowndesChapter 10. The Trouble with Amnesia: Collective Memory and Colonial Injustice in the United States-Kevin BruyneelChapter 11. Interest in the Absence of Articulation: Small Business and Islamist Parties in Algeria-Deborah HarroldConclusion: An Invitation to Political CreativityNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments