The Development of Political Institutions: Power, Legitimacy, Democracy by Ferrara, Federico

The Development of Political Institutions: Power, Legitimacy, Democracy

While the literature on "new institutionalism" explains the stability of institutional arrangements within countries and the divergence...
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Author: Federico Ferrara
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The Development of Political Institutions: Power, Legitimacy, Democracy by Ferrara, Federico

The Development of Political Institutions: Power, Legitimacy, Democracy

CHF 144.23

The Development of Political Institutions: Power, Legitimacy, Democracy

CHF 144.23
Author: Federico Ferrara
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

While the literature on "new institutionalism" explains the stability of institutional arrangements within countries and the divergence of paths of institutional development between countries, Federico Ferrara takes a "historical institutionalist" approach to theorize dynamic processes of institutional reproduction, institutional decay, and institutional change in explaining the development of political institutions. Ferrara synthesizes "power-based" or "power-distributional" explanations and "ideas-based" "legitimation explanations." He specifies the psychological "microfoundations" of processes of institutional development, drawing heavily from the findings of experimental psychology to ensure that the explanation is grounded in clear and realistic assumptions regarding human motivation, cognition, and behavior. Aside from being of interest to scholars and graduate students in political science and other social-scientific disciplines whose research concentrates on the genesis of political institutions, their evolution over time, and their impact on the stability of political order and the quality of governance, the book will be required reading in graduate courses and seminars in comparative politics where the study of institutions and their development ranks among the subfield's most important subjects.



Author: Federico Ferrara
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 01/18/2022
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.98w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780472132836

About the Author
Federico Ferrara is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian & International Studies at City University of Hong Kong.


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