Institutions and Institutionalisms
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Institutions and Institutionalisms Reading List for Comparative Politics (updated December 2015 and October 25, 2017) Peter Hall and Rosemary Taylor, “ Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms,” Political Studies, vol. XLIV (1996), pp. 936-957. Douglass C. North, Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990). Douglass C. North, Understanding the Process of Economic Change (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005), pp. 1-80. George Tsebelis, “Decision Making in Political Systems: Veto Players in Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, Multicameralism, and Multipartyism,” British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 25 (1995), pp. 289-325. Gary Cox, Making Votes Count (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 3-68, 151- 172, and 181-221. Barry Weingast “Rational Choice Institutionalism” in Ira Katznelson, Helen Milner with the APSA, eds., Political Science: State of the Discipline (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002 book), pp. 660-692. Sven Steinmo and Kathleen Thelen, “Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics” in Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 1-32. Paul Pierson and Theda Skocpol, in Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner with the APSA, eds., Political Science: State of the Discipline (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002 book), pp. 693-721. Kathleen Thelen, How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, The United States, and Japan (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 1-38, 278- 296. Paul Pierson, Politics in Time (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), pp. 1-53 and 103-178. Shugart, Matthew Soberg and John M. Carey, Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics, pp.1-54, 273-287 (1992, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Arend Lijphart, Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999), pp. 1-47 and 301-309. .