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Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions Ser.: Institutions and Social Conflict by Jack Knight (1992, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521421896
ISBN-13
9780521421898
eBay Product ID (ePID)
961206

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
252 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Institutions and Social Conflict
Subject
Political Economy, Sociology / General, General
Publication Year
1992
Type
Textbook
Author
Jack Knight
Subject Area
Political Science, Social Science
Series
Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
13.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
92-003575
Reviews
"Overall, this is an interesting book written with clarity and conciseness and contains a very valid argument for understanding the emergence and development of social institutions." Review of Radical Political Economics
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
303.6
Table Of Content
Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The primary importance of distributional conflict; 3. Institutions and strategic choice: information, sanctions and social expectations; 4. The spontaneous emergence of social institutions: contemporary theories of institutional change; 5. The spontaneous emergence of social institutions: a bargaining theory of emergence and change; 6. Stability and change: conflicts over formal institutions; 7. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.
Synopsis
A thorough critique of a wide range of theories of institutional change followed by the development of a new theory that emphasises the role of distributional conflict in the emergence of social institutions., Many of the fundamental questions in social science entail an examination of the role played by social institutions. Why do we have so many social institutions? Why do they take one form in one society and quite different ones in others? In what ways do these institutions develop? When and why do they change? Institutions and Social Conflict addresses these questions in two ways. First it offers a thorough critique of a wide range of theories of institutional change, from the classical accounts of Smith, Hume, Marx and Weber to the contemporary approaches of evolutionary theory, the theory of social conventions and the new institutionalism. Secondly, it develops a new theory of institutional change that emphasises the distributional consequences of social institutions. The emergence of institutions is explained as a by-product of distributional conflict in which asymmetries of power in a society generate institutional solutions to conflicts., Many of the fundamental questions in social science entail an examination of the role played by social institutions. Why do we have so many social institutions? Why do they take one form in one society and quite different ones in others? In what ways do these institutions originally develop? And when and why do they change? Institutions and Social Conflict addresses these questions in two ways. First it offers a thorough critique of a wide range of theories of institutional change, from the classical accounts of Smith, Hume, Marx and Weber to the contemporary approaches of evolutionary theory, the theory of social conventions and the new institutionalism. Second, it develops a new theory of institutional change that emphasizes the distributional consequences of social institutions. The emergence of institutions is explained as a by-product of distributional conflict in which asymmetries of power in a society generate institutional solutions to conflicts. The book draws its examples from an extensive variety of social institutions.
LC Classification Number
HM131 .K617 1992