Reconfiguring Institutions Across Time and Space

DENNIS. C. GALVAN is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Oregon. RUDRA SIL is Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania.

Introduction The Dilemma of Institutional Adaptation and the Role of Syncretism; D.C.Galvan & R.Sil PART I: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS Syncretism and Local-Level Democracy in Senegal; D.C.Galvan Institutional Syncretism and the Chinese Armed Forces; T.Bickford Institutional Syncretism in Argentina's Party System and Peronist Political Culture; P.Ostiguy (En)Durable Syncretism: Hizballah in the "Space Between"; S.Philbrick Yadav PART II: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS The Dynamics of Institutional Adaptation and the Fruitful Emergence of Managerial Syncretism in Japan; R.Sil Legal Syncretism and Family Change in Urban and Rural China; N.J.Diamant Working Is Celebrating: The Syncretic Politics of Labor Transformation in Rural Zambia; P.Hoon Pathways of Institutional Diffusion Under Leninism: A Historical Comparison of Romania and Hungary; C.Chen Brazil's 1964-1967 Economic Stabilization Plan as Institutional Syncretism; C.Kearney