Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis
by Edited by Sven Steinmo , Kathleen Thelen , Frank LongstrethFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1992-09-25
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
This volume brings together original essays by scholars working on a diverse range of empirical issues, but whose work is in each case informed by a "historical institutional" approach to the study of politics. By bringing these pieces together, the volume highlights the methodological and theoretical foundations of this approach and illustrates the general contributions it has made to comparative politics. The essays demonstrate the potential of the approach to illuminate a broad range of issues such as how and why institutions change, how political ideas are filtered through institutional structures in the formation of specific policies, and how institutional structure can have unintended effects on the shaping of policy. Through these richly detailed pieces, the reader is provided not only a thorough understanding of the method of analysis but also an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of the approach.
Table of Contents
| 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. |
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