Contents
Contributors
Chapter 1. Intersections Between Historical and Rational Choice Institutionalism / Ira Katznelson and Barry R. Weingast
Part I. Situations
Chapter 2. A Cross of Gold, a Crown of Thorns: Preferences and Decisions in the 1896 Democratic National Convention / Richard Bensel
Chapter 3. Congress and Civil Rights Policy: An Examination of Endogenous Preferences / David W. Brady, John A. Ferejohn, and Jeremy C. Pope
Chapter 4. “To Give Counsel and to Consent”: Why the King (Edward I) Expelled His Jews (in 1290) / Ira Katznelson
Part II. Processes
Chapter 5. Preference Formation as a Political Process: The Case of Monetary Union in Europe / Peter A. Hall
Chapter 6. Persuasion, Preference Change, and Critical Junctures: The Microfoundations of a Macroscopic Concept / Barry R. Weingast
Chapter 7. Endogenous Preferences About Courts: A Theory of Judicial State Building in the Nineteenth Century / Charles M. Cameron
Part III. Categories
Chapter 8. Inducing Preferences Within Organizations: The Case of Unions / Margaret Levi
Chapter 9. Preference Formation in Transitional Justice / Jon Elster
Chapter 10. What the Politics of Enfranchisement Can Tell Us About How Rational Choice Theorists Study Institutions / James Johnson
Part IV. Synthesis
Chapter 11. Combining Institutionalisms: Liberal Choices and Political Trajectories in Central America / James Mahoney
Index