The New Institutionalism in Sociology

Contributors ix Foreword xi Robert K. Merton Introduction xv Sources of the New Institutionalism 1(16) Victor Nee PART I INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIAL NORMS 17(134) Embeddedness and Beyond: Institutions, Exchange, and Social Structure 19(27) Victor Nee Paul Ingram Of Coase and Cattle: Dispute Resolution Among Neighbors in Shasta County 46(31) Robert C. Ellickson Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies 77(28) Avner Greif Conflict over Changing Social Norms: Bargaining, Ideology, and Enforcement 105(22) Jack Knight Jean Ensminger Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action 127(24) Alejandro Portes Julia Sensenbrenner PART II INSTITUTIONAL EMBEDDEDNESS IN CAPITALIST ECONOMIES 151(94) The Organization of Economices 153(28) Gary G. Hamilton Robert Feenstra Institutional Embeddedness in Japanese Labor Markets 181(27) Mary C. Brinton Takebiko Kariya Winner-Take-All Markets and Wage Discrimination 208(16) Robert H. Frank Institutions and the Labor Market 224(21) Bruce Western PART III INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE 245(82) Economic Performance Through Time 247(11) Douglass C. North Changing the Rules: Interests, Organizations, and Institutional Change in the U.S. Hospitality Industry 258(19) Paul Ingram The Importance of the Local: Rural Institutions and Economic Change in Preindustrial England 277(28) Rosemary L. Hopcroft Outline of an Institutionalist Theory of Inequality: The Case of Socialist and Postcommunist Eastern Europe 305(22) Ivan Szelenyi Eric Kostello Index 327