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1 online resource (381 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Beyond Dualist Social Science: The Mangle of Order and Change; Part I. Relationality; Chapter 1. Processes of Creative Syncretism: Experiential Origins of Institutional Order and Change; Chapter 2. Ecological Explanation; Chapter 3. Governance Architectures for Learning and Self-Recomposition in Chinese Industrial Upgrading; Chapter 4. Reconfiguring Industry Structure: Obama and the Rescue of the Auto Companies; Part II. Assemblage |
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Chapter 5. Animating Institutional Skeletons: The Contributions of Subaltern Resistance to the Reinforcement of Land Boards in BotswanaChapter 6. Creating Political Strategy, Controlling Political Work: Edward Bernays and the Emergence of the Political Consultant; Chapter 7. Accidental Hegemony: How the System of National Accounts Became a Global Institution; Chapter 8. The Fluidity of Labor Politics in Postcommunist Transitions: Rethinking the Narrative of Russian Labor Quiescence; Part III. Time; Chapter 9. From Birmingham to Baghdad: The Micropolitics of Partisan Identification |
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Chapter 10. The Trouble with Amnesia: Collective Memory and Colonial Injustice in the United StatesChapter 11. Interest in the Absence of Articulation: Small Business and Islamist Parties in Algeria; Conclusion: An Invitation to Political Creativity; Notes; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Acknowledgments |
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Political Creativity intervenes in the lively debate currently underway in the social sciences on institutional change. Editors Gerald Berk, Dennis C. Galvan, and Victoria Hattam, along with the contributors to the volume, show how institutions inevitably combine order and change, because formal rules and roles are always available for reconfiguration. Creative action is not the exception but the very process through which all political formations are built, promulgated and changed. Drawing on the rich cache of antidualist theoretical traditions, from poststructuralism and ecological theory to constructivism and pragmatism, a diverse group of scholars probes acts of social innovation in many locations: land boards in Botswana, Russian labor relations, international statistics, global supply chains, Islamic economics in Algeria, Islamic sects and state authority in Senegal, and civil rights reform, colonization, industrial policy, and political consulting in the United States. These political scientists reconceptualize agency as a relational process that continually reorders the nature and meaning of people and things, order as an assemblage that necessitates creative tinkering and interpretation, and change as the unruly politics of time that confounds the conventional ordering of past, present, and future. Political Creativity offers analytical tools for reimagining order and change as entangled processes. Contributors: Stephen Amberg, Chris Ansell, Gerald Berk, Kevin Bruyneel, Dennis C. Galvan, Deborah Harrold, Victoria Hattam, Yoshiko M. Herrera, Gary Herrigel, Joseph Lowndes, Ato Kwamena Onoma, Adam Sheingate, Rudra Sil, Ulrich Voskamp, Volker Wittke |
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Political Science |
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Public Policy |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Creative ability -- Political aspects -- Case studies
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Organizational change -- Case studies
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Political science -- Research -- Methodology
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Political sociology -- Research -- Methodology
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Public institutions -- Case studies
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Social institutions -- Case studies
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
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Creative ability -- Political aspects
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Organizational change
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Political science -- Research -- Methodology
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Public institutions
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Social institutions
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Case studies
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Berk, Gerald
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Galvan, Dennis Charles
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Hattam, Victoria Charlotte
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| ISBN |
9780812209204 |
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0812209206 |
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1322514194 |
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9781322514192 |
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