TY - BOOK AU - Binder,Sarah A AU - Rockman,Bert A AU - Rhodes,R A W TI - Oxford handbook of political institutions SN - 9780199548460 U1 - 306.2 22 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press N1 - License restrictions may limit access; Scholarly & Professional; Oxford University Press, Incorporated N2 - Annotation; The study of political institutions is among the founding pillars of political science. With the rise of the 'new institutionalism', the study of institutions has returned to its place in the sun. This volume provides a comprehensive survey of where we are in the study of political institutions, covering both the traditional concerns of political science with constitutions, federalism and bureaucracy and more recent interest in theory and the constructed nature of institutions.The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutionsdraws together a galaxy of distinguished contributors drawn from leading universities across the world ER -