Social capital theorists have shown that some people do better than others in part because
they enjoy larger, more supportive, or otherwise more useful networks. But why do some …

It is widely believed that current disparities in economic, political, and social outcomes reflect
distinct institutions. Institutions are invoked to explain why some countries are rich and …

In this new edition of his popular textbook, Nonprofit Organizations: Theory, Management,
Policy, Helmut K. Anheier has fully updated, revised and expanded his comprehensive …

Why did the nation-state emerge and proliferate across the globe? How is this process
related to the wars fought in the modern era? Analyzing datasets that cover the entire world …

Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and
intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped …

Hence, social control, so far from tending to crush out the human individual or to obliterate
his selfconscious individuality, is, on the contrary, actually constitutive of and inextricably …

Political science today is a dynamic discipline. Its substance, theory and methods have all
changed radically in recent decades. It is much expanded in range and scope and in the …

THIS BOOK IS about some of the most important problems confronting social scientists who
study institutions and institutional change. It is also about globalization, particularly the …

The problem of the relationship between actors and the social structures in which they are
embedded is central to sociological theory. This paper suggests that the “new institutionalist” …

Contrary to the predictions of some, neither the proliferation of supranational forms of
governance, the ascendancy of free market principles of global capitalism, nor expanding …