Institutions and Social Conflict (Political Economy of

Institutions and Social Conflict (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)

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.

Country	USA
Author	Jack Knight
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: Cambridge University Press
EAN	9780521421898
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0521421896
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Label	Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer	Cambridge University Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	252
PublicationDate	1992-10-30
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Studio	Cambridge University Press
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Institutions and Social Conflict (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)