The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions

Sarah Binder is a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution and is professor of political science at George Washington University.

R. A. W. Rhodes is Professor of Government (Research) and Director of the Centre for Political Ethnography at the University of Southampton, and Adjunct Professor, Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. He is the author or editor of forty-two books including, most recently Networks, Governance and the Differentiated Polity. Selected Essays, Volume I. (Oxford University Press, 2017), Interpretive Political Science. Selected Essays, Volume II (Oxford University Press, 2017), and the Routledge Handbook of Interpretive Political Science (with Mark Bevir; Routledge 2015). He is Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK). In 2015, the ECPR awarded him their biennial Lifetime Achievement Award for his ‘outstanding contribution to all areas of political science, and the exceptional impact of his work’.

Bert A. Rockman is Professor of Political Science and Head of the Department at Purdue University.

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Binder, Sarah A., R. A. W. Rhodes, and Bert A. Rockman (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions ( 2008; online edn, Oxford Academic , 2 Sept. 2009 ), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199548460.001.0001, accessed 6 Sept. 2024.

Abstract

The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions provides a comprehensive survey of where we are in the study of political institutions, covering both the traditional concerns of political science with constitutions, federalism and bureaucracy and more recent interest in theory and the constructed nature of institutions. The study of political institutions is among the founding pillars of political science. With the rise of the ‘new institutionalism’, the study of institutions has returned to its place in the sun. This text draws together distinguished contributors from leading universities across the world. This volume is one of The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science — a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science.

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