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Originally published in 1994. The energy crisis of the 1970s
provided an opportune climate for public sector entrepreneurship to
develop. The authors present case studies from six innovative and
diverse municipalities in Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden and the
United States. The studies document problems these communities
encountered while implementing new ideas in energy conservation and
changes in energy supply and municipal planning. Each community was
selected on the basis of its early, vigorous response to the energy
crisis, and then followed up to examine roadblocks along the way to
innovation in the public sector. The case studies highlight the
challenges policy entrepreneurs face and the tactics they employ,
revealing crucial differences between public and private sector
entrepreneurship.
Originally published in 1994. The energy crisis of the 1970s
provided an opportune climate for public sector entrepreneurship to
develop. The authors present case studies from six innovative and
diverse municipalities in Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden and the
United States. The studies document problems these communities
encountered while implementing new ideas in energy conservation and
changes in energy supply and municipal planning. Each community was
selected on the basis of its early, vigorous response to the energy
crisis, and then followed up to examine roadblocks along the way to
innovation in the public sector. The case studies highlight the
challenges policy entrepreneurs face and the tactics they employ,
revealing crucial differences between public and private sector
entrepreneurship.
In this landmark volume, J. Rodgers Hollingsworth, Karl H. Muller,
and Ellen Jane Hollingsworth take a first step towards imposing
order on the increasingly diverse field of socio-economics by
embedding the various disciplines and sub-disciplines in a common
core. The distinguished contributors in this volume show how
institutions, governance arrangements, societal sectors,
organizations, individual actors, and innovativeness are
intertwined and, ultimately, how individuals and firms have a high
degree of autonomy. By offering original suggestions and guidelines
for developing a socio-economics research agenda focused on
institutional analysis, Advancing Socio-Economics: An
Institutionalist Perspective, will enlighten all interested in the
social sciences.
The Shaping of Social Organization introduces a new social theory -
social rule system theory - and shows how it can provide fresh
insights into the major institutions of modern social life. The
book advances a distinctive approach to the study of
actor-structure dynamics, placing itself in a rich scholarly
tradition developed by major thinkers such as Weber, Lindblom,
Giddens and Goffman. It presents social rule system theory as a
framework with which to investigate social institutions, and
clarifies the principles behind their formation, maintenance and
transformation. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, the
authors also demonstrate the relevance of the theory for research
programs. As a result, they are able to provide innovative
perspectives on the structure and performance of markets,
information, technocracy and the sources of social and structural
incoherence in modern societies. The Shaping of Social Organization
was among the finalists for the amalfi European Prize in Sociology
and Social Science.
Radical new technologies are developing in Western societies at
ever-increasing rates but contemporary democracies often lack the
appropriate organizational forms to confront these developments.
"Creative Democracy" discusses the failure of politicians and
democratic institutions to cope with modern challenges, and
proposes a specific strategy to address these problems in
contemporary society. The authors propose new strategies to
increase public awareness of, and democratic control over, major
technological developments explaining the advantage of democratic
discourse and consensus formation over voting, and insisting that
scientists must work with politicians to formulate and articulate
their alternative futures for major technological developments.
Overall, "Creative Democracy" provides a thorough, scholarly and
practical analysis in support of democratic dialogue.
The Shaping of Social Organization introduces a new social theory -
social rule system theory - and shows how it can provide fresh
insights into the major institutions of modern social life. The
book advances a distinctive approach to the study of
actor-structure dynamics, placing itself in a rich scholarly
tradition developed by major thinkers such as Weber, Lindblom,
Giddens and Goffman. It presents social rule system theory as a
framework with which to investigate social institutions, and
clarifies the principles behind their formation, maintenance and
transformation. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, the
authors also demonstrate the relevance of the theory for research
programs. As a result, they are able to provide innovative
perspectives on the structure and performance of markets,
information, technocracy and the sources of social and structural
incoherence in modern societies. The Shaping of Social Organization
was among the finalists for the amalfi European Prize in Sociology
and Social Science.
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