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: 9780739106068
• ISBN10: 0739106066
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-13
• 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	vii
1 Agents, Structures, and Domestic Institutional Change	1	(26)
Andrew P. Cortell and Susan Peterson
2 European Judicial Review and National Institutional Change	27	(36)
Lisa Conant
3 Explaining the Lack of Institutional Change in Cuba	63	(26)
Darren Hawkins
4 Altering the U.S. State: Post-Vietnam Changes in Foreign Policy Authority	89	(30)
Susan Peterson and Christopher Wenk
5 Institutional Change and Post-Communist States: The Transformation of Civilian Control in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Russia	119	(26)
Eva Busza
6 Institutional Dynamics in Collapsing Empires: Domestic Structural Change in the USSR, Post--Soviet Russia, and Independent Ukraine	145	(24)
Jeffrey T. Checkel
7 Institutionalizing the Regulation of Inward Foreign Direct Investment	169	(26)
C. S. Eliot Kang
8 Breaking the Policy Bias: Windows of Opportunity and the Realignment of Structural Constraints in Three Government Departments	195	(24)
David Richards and Martin J. Smith
9 The Causes and Consequences of Institutional Change	219	(14)
Andrew P. Cortell and Susan Peterson
Index	233	(8)
Contributors	241