Introduction
Part I: Institutional Study and Its Boundaries
1 Political Institutions and Social Power: Conceptual Explorations
Claus O?e
2 Power and Political Institutions
Terry M. Moe
3 Practical Institutionalism
John Ferejohn
4 Which Comes First, the Ideas or the Institutions?
Rogers M. Smith
5 Public Policies as Institutions
Paul Pierson
Part II: Institutional Structure and Political Change
6 Institutions and Social Change:
The Evolution of Vocational Training in Germany
Kathleen Thelen
7 When Does Politics Create Policy? The Organizational Politics of Change
Margaret Weir
8 Lineages of the Rube Goldberg State: Building and Blurring Public Programs,1900–1940
Elisabeth S. Clemens
9 Government Institutions, Policy Cartels, and Policy Change
R. Kent Weaver
Part III: Institutions and Democracy
10 Institutions for Implementing Constitutional Law
Mark Tushnet
11 Beyond Rational Self-interest: Authors and Actors in French Constitution-Making
Jon Elster
12 Preserving the “Dignity and In?uence of the Court”: Political Supports for Judicial Review in the United States
Keith E. Whittington
13 The Signi?cance of Cognitive and Moral Learning for Democratic Institutions
Ulrich K. Preuss
About the Contributors
About the Editors
Index