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

By Jack Knight

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1992
ISBN
0521421896, 9780521421898
LCC
HM131 .K617 1992
Open Library ID
OL1702582M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9538617 bytes)
Pages
250\250
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40
Конфликтология;Социология конфликта

Description

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.

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