TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patterson,James J.
TI  - Remaking political institutions: climate change and beyond 
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements in earth system governance,
SN  - 9781108769341 (ebook)
AV  - QC903 .P39 2021
U1  - 363.73874 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Political aspects
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Jan 2021); Open Access title
N2  - Institutions are failing in many areas of contemporary politics, not least of which concerns climate change. However, remedying such problems is not straightforward. Pursuing institutional improvement is an intensely political process, playing out over extended timeframes, and intricately tied to existing setups. Such activities are open-ended, and outcomes are often provisional and indeterminate. The question of institutional improvement, therefore, centers on understanding how institutions are (re)made within complex settings. This Element develops an original analytical foundation for studying institutional remaking and its political dynamics. It explains how institutional remaking can be observed and provides a typology comprising five areas of institutional production involved in institutional remaking (Novelty, Uptake, Dismantling, Stability, Interplay). This opens up a new research agenda on the politics of responding to institutional breakdown, and brings sustainability scholarship into closer dialogue with scholarship on processes of institutional change and development. Also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108769341
ER  -