It is increasingly accepted that 'institutions matter' for economic organization & outcomes. This text explores the issues perspectives, & models, concerned with comparative institutional analysis. The leading scholars in the area contribute chapters to provide a central reference point for...

This chapter of the Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems examines how states influence the structure of national business systems in Asia. It begins with an overview of literature on the state's role with regard to the institutional arrangements of capitalist systems in non-Asian as well as...

"A crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others--and explains how it can continue to thrive despite new threats"--

Die Globalisierung war eine wunderbare Idee. Nachdem die politische Spaltung in Ost und West überwunden war, schien der friedlichen Kooperation aller Menschen nichts mehr im Wege zu stehen. Würde man nur alle Hürden aus dem Weg räumen, so die liberale Vorstellung, bildete sich eine spontane...

"The fundamental question of political theory, one which precedes all other questions about the nature of political life, is why there is a state at all. Is human cooperation feasible without a political authority enforcing it? Or do we need a state to live together? This question also reveals...