Institutions In Modern Society

Author : Oscar van Heffen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401594864
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governance in Modern Society written by Oscar van Heffen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the immediate result of the co-operation of a great number of scholars in the Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG). NIG is an interuniversity research school. As such it has a double task. In addition to offering a Ph.D program to students in Public Administration it also is a research institute in which a great number of scholars from seven Dutch universities participate and work on a common research program. The chapters in this book are all products of the research program that started in 1995. This program had the ambition to explore the frontiers of the discipline in two respects. First by studying a number of recent developments in society and their consequences for the functioning of government. These consequences can be summarised as the development of a system of multi level and multi actor governance. Second, by contributing to the knowledge of institutions, both by studying what factors are most important in the formation and change of institutions and by studying the effects of institutions on the behaviour of actors in different political and administrative settings. Most contributions to this volume either have their origin in conferences organized by the NIG or were published as an NIG working paper. We are grateful to Marcia Clifford and Connie Hoekstra who prepared the final version of the manuscript, to Ian Priestnall who took care of the language editing and to an anonymous reviewer whose comments were gratefully used.

Author : Jeffrey E. Nash
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780930390068
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutions in Modern Society written by Jeffrey E. Nash and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1993 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Author : Avner Greif
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521480444
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy written by Avner Greif and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Eitan Hersh
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1982116781
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics Is for Power written by Eitan Hersh and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant condemnation of political hobbyism—treating politics like entertainment—and a call to arms for well-meaning, well-informed citizens who consume political news, but do not take political action. Who is to blame for our broken politics? The uncomfortable answer to this question starts with ordinary citizens with good intentions. We vote (sometimes) and occasionally sign a petition or attend a rally. But we mainly “engage” by consuming politics as if it’s a sport or a hobby. We soak in daily political gossip and eat up statistics about who’s up and who’s down. We tweet and post and share. We crave outrage. The hours we spend on politics are used mainly as pastime. Instead, we should be spending the same number of hours building political organizations, implementing a long-term vision for our city or town, and getting to know our neighbors, whose votes will be needed for solving hard problems. We could be accumulating power so that when there are opportunities to make a difference—to lobby, to advocate, to mobilize—we will be ready. But most of us who are spending time on politics today are focused inward, choosing roles and activities designed for our short-term pleasure. We are repelled by the slow-and-steady activities that characterize service to the common good. In Politics Is for Power, pioneering and brilliant data analyst Eitan Hersh shows us a way toward more effective political participation. Aided by political theory, history, cutting-edge social science, as well as remarkable stories of ordinary citizens who got off their couches and took political power seriously, this book shows us how to channel our energy away from political hobbyism and toward empowering our values.

Author : John Edgar Jackson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472101368
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutions in American Society written by John Edgar Jackson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary study of the political, economic, and social institutions that give character and direction to our society

Author : Yuval Levin
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541699289
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Time to Build written by Yuval Levin and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading conservative intellectual argues that to renew America we must recommit to our institutions Americans are living through a social crisis. Our politics is polarized and bitterly divided. Culture wars rage on campus, in the media, social media, and other arenas of our common life. And for too many Americans, alienation can descend into despair, weakening families and communities and even driving an explosion of opioid abuse. Left and right alike have responded with populist anger at our institutions, and use only metaphors of destruction to describe the path forward: cleaning house, draining swamps. But, as Yuval Levin argues, this is a misguided prescription, rooted in a defective diagnosis. The social crisis we confront is defined not by an oppressive presence but by a debilitating absence of the forces that unite us and militate against alienation. As Levin argues, now is not a time to tear down, but rather to build and rebuild by committing ourselves to the institutions around us. From the military to churches, from families to schools, these institutions provide the forms and structures we need to be free. By taking concrete steps to help them be more trustworthy, we can renew the ties that bind Americans to one another.

Author : Morris Janowitz
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Social Control written by Morris Janowitz and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1985 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Morris Janowitz's creative ideas and their application to the study of a wide range of American institutions. Janowitz is one of the best known and most prolific sociologists adopting the institutional approach to an understanding of contemporary society. In this book, his students and colleagues take up many of his seminal ideas and apply them to such instituions as the local community, the armed forces, the welare state, and crime control.

Author : Douglass C. North
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521397346
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance written by Douglass C. North and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies is developed in this analysis of economic structures.

Author : Thomas Christiano
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319610708
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Morality, Governance, and Social Institutions written by Thomas Christiano and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects on the research and career of political theorist Russell Hardin from scholars of Political Science, Philosophy, Sociology, Economics, and Law, among other disciplines. Contributions address core issues of political theory as perceived by Hardin, starting with his insistence that many of the basic institutions of modern society and their formative historical beginnings can be understood as proceeding primarily from the self-interested motives of the participants. Many of the contributions in this volume struggle with the constraints imposed on political theorizing by the idea of self-interested agents, or homo economicus. Some reject the idea as empirically unfounded. Others try to show that homo economicus is even more versatile than Hardin depicts. And yet others accept the constraints and work within them. But all pay tribute to the lasting intellectual contribution of Russell Hardin and the challenge he poses. The book should appeal to scholars and students interested in collective action, public choice and democracy, moral reasoning and its limits, constitutionalism, liberalism, conventions and coordination, trust, identity politics, social epistemology, and methods in politics philosophy.

Author : Anne Goldgar
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047405447
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society written by Anne Goldgar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers new insights into the self-perceptions, strategies, and rituals through which early modern institutions functioned. Its wide range and its comparative vision of the nature of institutions prompts a new interpretation of the role of institutions in society. With contributions by Florence Hsia, Ian Anders Gadd, Gayle K. Brunelle, Christopher Carlsmith, Susan E. Brown, Victor Morgan, Steve Hindle, Janelle Day Jenstad, Eve Rosenhaft, Reed Benhamou, James Shaw, Kristine Haugen.