Week 1 supplemental readings: Conceptualizing political institutions

“The Role of Interests, Institutions, and Ideas in the Comparative Political Economy of the Industrialized Nations.” In Mark Irving Lichbach and Alan S. Zuckerman, eds., Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. (LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK RESERVES JA86 .C52 1997)

Bringing the State Back In: New Perspectives on the State as Institution and Social Actor. (edited with Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol) Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Peter Evans. States vs. Markets in the World System. (Coedited with Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Evelyne Stephens) Beverly Hills, CA.: Sage, 1985.

“The Eclipse of the State? Reflections on Stateness in an Era of Globalization” World Politics, Vol. 50, No. 1. (Oct., 1997), pp. 62-87. (The role of the state in an increasingly global world)

Mary C. Brinton. The New Institutionalism in Sociology (LEHMAN, Call Number: HM51 .N457 1998)

James G. March; Johan P. Olsen. “The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life” in American Political Science Review, Vol. 78, No. 3. (Sep., 1984), pp. 734-749.

James G. March and Johan P. Olsen, “Institutional Perspectives on Political Institutions.” Governance 9, 3 (July 1996), 247-64

Jack Knight and Itai Sened. Explaining social institutions (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1995.) (LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK RESERVES, Call Number: HM131 E956 1995.)