Rethinking Political Institutions

Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he also serves as Henry R. Luce Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. He is the editor or author of numerous books, most recently Political Contingency (NYU Press) and Rethinking Political Institutions (NYU Press).Stephen Skowronek is the Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale University and co-author most recently of The Search for American Political Development.Daniel Galvin an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University.

• Introduction Part I: Institutional Study and Its Boundaries1 Political Institutions and Social Power: Conceptual Explorations Claus O?e2 Power and Political Institutions Terry M. Moe3 Practical Institutionalism John Ferejohn4 Which Comes First, the Ideas or the Institutions? Rogers M. Smith5 Public Policies as Institutions Paul PiersonPart II: Institutional Structure and Political Change6 Institutions and Social Change:The Evolution of Vocational Training in Germany Kathleen Thelen7 When Does Politics Create Policy? The Organizational Politics of Change Margaret Weir8 Lineages of the Rube Goldberg State: Building and Blurring Public Programs,1900-1940 Elisabeth S. Clemens9 Government Institutions, Policy Cartels, and Policy Change R. Kent WeaverPart III: Institutions and Democracy10 Institutions for Implementing Constitutional Law Mark Tushnet11 Beyond Rational Self-interest: Authors and Actors in French Constitution-Making Jon Elster12 Preserving the "Dignity and In?uence of the Court": Political Supports for Judicial Review in the United States Keith E. Whittington13 The Signi?cance of Cognitive and Moral Learning for Democratic Institutions Ulrich K. PreussAbout the Contributors About the Editors Index