Do institutions matter? : government capabilities in the United States and abroad / R. Kent Weaver and Bert A. Rockman, editors.
1993
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Title
Do institutions matter? : government capabilities in the United States and abroad / R. Kent Weaver and Bert A. Rockman, editors.
Published
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, [1993]
Copyright
©1993
Call Number
JK305 .D6 1992
ISBN
0815792557
0815792565 (alk. paper)
0815792565 (alk. paper)
Description
xiv, 498 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)27187459
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Table of Contents
Assessing the Effects of Institutions / R. Kent Weaver Bert A. Rockman
1
Evaluating Governmental Effectiveness
5
A General Model of Government Capabilities
7
Parliamentary and Presidential Systems
11
Variations among Parliamentary and Presidential Systems
19
Other Influences on Governmental Capacity
30
Comparing Capabilities
37
Research Strategy
40
Innovation, Coordination, and Implementation in Energy Policy / Harvey Feigenbaum Richard Samuels R. Kent Weaver
42
Institutions and Policy Capabilities
44
The Cases
50
Starting Points and Policy Responses: An Overview
50
The United States
53
Canada
65
France
74
Germany
83
Japan
89
Imposing Losses in Pension Policy / Paul D. Pierson R. Kent Weaver
110
Institutional Structure and the Politics of Loss Imposition
111
The Cases
114
Pension Policies, Program Structure, and Loss Imposition
115
Targeting Resources for Industrial Change / Ellis S. Krauss Jon Pierre
151
Institutions and Industrial Policy
152
The Cases
156
Industrial Policy in Sweden
157
Industrial Policy in Japan
165
Industrial Policy in the United States
175
Governmental Institutions and Industrial Change
183
Governments versus Budget Deficits / Allen Schick
187
Government Capabilities and Government Deficits
188
Case Study Countries
195
From Expansion to Restraint: Fiscal Policy in the OECD Countries
197
Battling the Deficit: Two Disappointments, One Success
199
Political Capacity
224
Representing Diffuse Interests in Environmental Policymaking / David Vogel
237
Institutions and Diffuse Interests
238
Case Study Countries
240
Comparing Environmental Policies
242
Patterns and Explanations
265
Conclusion: Evaluating Institutional Opportunities and Risks
270
Political Institutions and Cleavage Management / Richard Gunther Anthony Mughan
272
Identifying Failures of Conflict Management
273
Institutional Mechanisms for Cleavage Management
274
The Cases: Cleavage Management in Four Democracies
278
Political Institutions and Democratic Stability
287
Separation of Powers and Cleavage Management / Arend Lijphart Ronald Rogowski R. Kent Weaver
302
Political Institutions and Cleavage Management
303
Cleavage Management: A Macroquantitative Evaluation
307
Institutions and Cleavage Management in the United States
314
Appendix: Quantitative Data
338
Maintaining International Commitments in Trade Policy / Helen Milner
345
Institutions and Capabilities
347
The Making of International Policy in Three Nations
350
Patterns of Trade Policy
359
Explaining Trade Policy
362
Nuclear Weapons and Policy Stability / Edward A. Kolodziej
370
Political Institutions and Government Capabilities
371
The Cases
373
Policy Stability and Weapons Procurement: The U.S. Case
374
Policy Stability and Conflict Management: The British and French Cases
390
Military Security Policy / Davis B. Bobrow
412
A Useful Comparison?
413
Policy Capabilities and Their Determinants
416
Historical Legacies
419
Security Givens
421
Party and Electoral Systems
427
Administrative Institutions
432
Defense Private Sector
436
When and How Do Institutions Matter? / R. Kent Weaver Bert A. Rockman
445
Overall Patterns of Institutional Influence
446
Institutional Influences on Specific Capabilities
453
Institutional Reform and Constitutional Design / R. Kent Weaver Bert A. Rockman
462
Questions for Institutional Reformers
462
General Caveats about Institutional Reform
465
Institutional Reform in the United States
467
Institutional Reform and America's Central Policy Concerns
477
Chapter Authors
483
Other Conference Participants
484
Index
485