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Institutions and social conflict / Jack Knight.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Political economy of institutions and decisionsPublisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 1992Description: xiii, 234 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521420520
  • 9780521420525
  • 0521421896
  • 9780521421898
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.6 20
LOC classification:
  • HM131 .K617 1992
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. The primary importance of distributional conflict -- 3. Institutions and strategic choice: information, sanctions and social expectations -- 4. The spontaneous emergence of social institutions: contemporary theories of institutional change -- 5. The spontaneous emergence of social institutions: a bargaining theory of emergence and change -- 6. Stability and change: conflicts over formal institutions -- 7. Conclusion.
Summary: "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."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-229) and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. The primary importance of distributional conflict -- 3. Institutions and strategic choice: information, sanctions and social expectations -- 4. The spontaneous emergence of social institutions: contemporary theories of institutional change -- 5. The spontaneous emergence of social institutions: a bargaining theory of emergence and change -- 6. Stability and change: conflicts over formal institutions -- 7. Conclusion.

"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."--Publisher description.

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