Altered States International Relations, Domestic Politics, and Institutional Change

by Cortell, Andrew P.; Peterson, Susan; Busza, Eva; Checkel, Jeffrey T.; Conant, Lisa; Hawkins, Darren; Eliot Kang, C S.; Richards, David; Smith, Martin J.; Wenk, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780739103791
• ISBN10: 0739103792
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-18
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Combining theory with solid empirical research including archival evidence and interviews the contributors explore the causes and consequences of institutional transformation in the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Republics, and Cuba. Altered States highlights the dynamic and interactive relationship between national political institutions and reform-minded policy entrepreneurs, a perspective that will interest scholars and policy makers alike.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Agents, Structures, and Domestic Institutional Change	p. 1
European Judicial Review and National Institutional Change	p. 27
Explaining the Lack of Institutional Change in Cuba	p. 63
Altering the U.S. State: Post-Vietnam Changes in Foreign Policy Authority	p. 89
Institutional Change and Post-Communist States: The Transformation of Civilian Control in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Russia	p. 119
Institutional Dynamics in Collapsing Empires: Domestic Structural Change in the USSR, Post--Soviet Russia, and Independent Ukraine	p. 145
Institutionalizing the Regulation of Inward Foreign Direct Investment	p. 169
Breaking the Policy Bias: Windows of Opportunity and the Realignment of Structural Constraints in Three Government Departments	p. 195
The Causes and Consequences of Institutional Change	p. 219
Index	p. 233
Contributors	p. 241
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