B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of American Government at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written extensively in the areas of public administration and public policy, both for the United States and comparatively. Among his recent publications are the Handbook of Public Administration and The Quest for Control: Politicization of the Public Service.I am a research professor in the department of political science, University of Gothenburg. I am also adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh and at the Nordland University in Bodö, Norway. I have held numerous overseas visiting appointments, most recently at the City University of Hong Kong, University of Melbourne and University of Auckland.

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• VOLUME ONE: DEVELOPING INSTITUTIONAL THEORYPART ONE: INSTITUTIONAL CHANGEA Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change - Avner Greif and David LaitinUnderstanding Institutional Change - Gérard RolandFast-Moving and Slow-Moving InstitutionsAltered States - Andrew Cortell and Susan PetersonExplaining Domestic Institutional Change′Seek and Ye Shall Find′ - Christoph Knill and Andrea LenschowLinking Different Perspectives on Institutional ChangePART TWO: RECONCEPTUALIZING AGENCYApproaching Adulthood - W. Richard ScottThe Maturing of Institutional TheoryAgency, Entrepreneurs and Institutional Change - Jason BeckertThe Role of Strategic Choice and Institutionalized Practices in OrganizationsAgency and Institutions - Julie BattilanaThe Enabling Role of Individual′s Social PositionSocial Skills and Institutional Theory - Neil FligsteinPART THREE: RETHINKING PATH DEPENDENCYPath Dependence in Historical Sociology - James MahoneyHistorical Institutionalism and Comparative Politics - Kathleen ThelenPost Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc? Path Dependency and Punctuated Equilibria in European Aviation Safety Regulation - Jon PierreStructure, Agency and Historical Institutionalism - Colin Hay and Daniel WincottVOLUME TWO: NEW RESEARCH AGENDASPART ONE: DISCURSIVE INSTITUTIONALISM Taking Ideas and Discourse Seriously - Vivien SchmidtExplaining Change through Discursive Institutionalism and the Fourth New InstitutionalismDiscourse and Institutions - Nelson Phillips, Thomas Lawrence and Cynthia HardyDiscourse and Deinstitutionalization - Steve Maguire and Cynthia HardyThe Decline of DDT Ideas, Interests and Institutions in the Comparative Political Economy of Great Transformations - Colin HayPART TWO: INSTITUTIONALIZATIONFrom a Club to a Bureaucracy - Jon Pierre and B. Guy PetersJAA, EASA and European Aviation RegulationThe Role of Institutionalization in Cultural Persistence - Lynne ZuckerInstitutionalizing Upstarts - Arjen Boin and Robert GoodinThe Demons of Domestication and the Benefits of RecalcitranceParty Institutionalization in New Democracies - Vicky Randall and Lars SvåsandInstitutional Isomorphism and Public Sector Organizations - Peter Frumkin and Jospeh GalaskiwiczInstitutional Transformation and Planning - Ernest AlexanderFrom Institutionalization Theory to Institutional DesignPART THREE: MICRO-FOUNDATIONS OF INSTITUTIONAL BEHAVIORShared Mental Models - Arthur Denzau and Douglass NorthIdeologies and InstitutionsInstitutions and Individuals - Geoffrey HodgsonInteraction and EvolutionLiving in the Past? Change and Continuity in the Norwegian Civil Service - Tom Christensen and Per LaegreidMicrofoundations of Institutional Theory - Walter Powell and Jeaneete ColyvasVOLUME THREE: APPLYING INSTITUTIONAL THEORYPART ONE: INSTITUTIONAL APROACHES TO THE EUROPEAN UNIONExploring the Nature of the Beast - Thomas Risse-KappenInternational Relations Theory and Comparative Policy Analysis Meet the European UnionSame Menu, Separate Tables - Mark Aspinwall and Gerald SchneiderThe Institutionalist Turn in Political Science and the Study of the European UnionAn Organizational Approach to European Integration - Morton EgebergOutline of a Complementary PerspectiveThe Principal-Agent Approach and the Study of the European Union - Hussein Kassim and Anand MenonPromise Unfulfilled?PART TWO: GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONSNested Levels of Institutions - Barbara McCabe and Richard FeiockState Rules and City Property TaxesAdministrative Capacity, Structural Choice and the Creation of EU Agencies - Jørgen Christensen and Vibeke NielsenRescuing Aunt Sally - Vivien LowndesTaking Institutional Theory Seriously in Urban PoliticsPART THREE: INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONSThe Limits of Rational Design - John DuffieldInstitutions for Flying - John RichardsHow States Build a Market in International Air ServicesInstitutions in International Relations - Judith Goldstein, Douglas Rivers and Michael TomzUnderstanding the Effects of the GATT and the WTO in World TradeSharing Sovereignty - Stephen KrasnerNew Institutions for Collapsed and Failed StatesPART FOUR: INSTITUTIONS IN POLITICAL ECONOMYWhat Is an Institution? - John SearleChallenges and Growth - Elinor OstromThe Development of the Interdisciplinary Field of Institutional AnalysisThe New Institutional Economics - Douglass NorthTrade and the Variety of Democratic Institutions - Ronald RogowskiHow Institutions Create Historically Rooted Trajectories of Growth - John ZysmanPART FIVE: INSTITUTIONS AND GLOBALIZATIONGlobalization as Re-Territorialization - Neil BrennerThe Re-Scaling of Urban Governance in the European UnionHas Globalization Ended the Rise and Rise of the Nation State? - Michael MannThe Eclipse of the State? Reflections on Stateness in an Era of Globalization - Peter EvansPART SIX: INSTITUTIONS AND THE LAWSovereignty and the Institutionalization of Normative Order - Hans LindahlEconomic and Legal Institutionalism - Dick RuiterWhat Can They Learn from Each Other?Path Dependence and the Law - Oona HathawayThe Course and Pattern of Legal Change in a Common Law System