Introduction: Beyond Dualist Social Science: The Mangle of Order and Change

PART I. RELATIONALITY

Chapter 1. Processes of Creative Syncretism: Experiential Origins of Institutional Order and Change

—Gerald Berk and Dennis C. Galvan

Chapter 2. Ecological Explanation

—Chris Ansell

Chapter 3. Governance Architectures for Learning and Self-Recomposition in Chinese Industrial Upgrading

—Gary Herrigel, Volker Wittke, and Ulrich Voskamp

Chapter 4. Reconfiguring Industry Structure: Obama and the Rescue of the Auto Companies

—Steven Amberg

PART II. ASSEMBLAGE

Chapter 5. Animating Institutional Skeletons: The Contributions of Subaltern Resistance to the Reinforcement of Land Boards in Botswana

—Ato Kwamena Onoma

Chapter 6. Creating Political Strategy, Controlling Political Work: Edward Bernays and the Emergence of the Political Consultant

—Adam Sheingate

Chapter 7. Accidental Hegemony: How the System of National Accounts Became a Global Institution

—Yoshiko M. Herrera

Chapter 8. The Fluidity of Labor Politics in Postcommunist Transitions: Rethinking the Narrative of Russian Labor Quiescence

—Rudra Sil

PART III. TIME

Chapter 9. From Birmingham to Baghdad: The Micropolitics of Partisan Identification

—Victoria Hattam and Joseph Lowndes

Chapter 10. The Trouble with Amnesia: Collective Memory and Colonial Injustice in the United States

—Kevin Bruyneel

Chapter 11. Interest in the Absence of Articulation: Small Business and Islamist Parties in Algeria

—Deborah Harrold

Conclusion: An Invitation to Political Creativity

Notes

List of Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments