Reconfiguring Institutions Across Time and Space

1. The Dilemma of Institutional Adaptation and the Role of Syncretism
Dennis Galvan, Rudra Sil

Part One. Political Institutions

2. Syncretism and Local-Level Democracy in Rural Senegal
Dennis Galvan

3. Institutional Syncretism and the Chinese Armed Forces
Thomas J. Bickford

4. Syncretism in Argentina’s Party System and Peronist Political Culture
Pierre Ostiguy

5. (En)Durable Syncretism: Hizballah in the “Space Between”
Stacey Philbrick Yadav

Part Two. Economic and Social Institutions

6. The Dynamics of Institutional Adaptation and the Fruitful Emergence of Managerial Syncretism in Japan
Rudra Sil

7. Legal Syncretism and Family Change in Urban and Rural China
Neil J. Diamant

8. Working is Celebrating: The Syncretic Politics of Labor Transformation in Rural Zambia
Parakh Hoon

9. Pathways of Institutional Diffusion under Leninism: A Historical Comparison of Romania and Hungary
Cheng Chen

10. Brazil’s 1964–67 Economic Stabilization Plan as Institutional Syncretism
Christine A. Kearney

Nyckelord: Political Science and International Relations, Political Science, Public Policy, Public Administration, Sociology, general, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning