Overview
- Presents major works by Rainer Lepsius for the first time in English language
- Offers new insights into the work of Max Weber and institutional theory
- Provides a sound analytical understanding of the structural and cultural conditions for the development of democratic institutions
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Authors, Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
The editor, Claus Wendt, M.A., Ph.D., a 2008-09 Harkness/Bosch Fellow of Health Policy & Practice at Harvard School of Public Health and J. F. Kennedy Fellow at Harvard’s Center for European Studies, is professor of sociology at Siegen University. Wendt’s research interests include institutional theory, political sociology, international comparisons of welfare states and healthcare systems, and the sociology of health. He has written and edited more than ten books, e.g. with T. Marmor two volumes on Reforming Healthcare Systems (Edward Elgar, 2011) and with E. Kuhlmann, R. H. Blank, and I. L. Bourgeault The Palgrave International Handbook of Healthcare Policy and Governance (Palgrave, 2015), and has written more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Max Weber and Institutional Theory
Authors: M. Rainer Lepsius
Editors: Claus Wendt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44708-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44707-0Published: 06 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83116-9Published: 28 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44708-7Published: 03 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 221
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Additional Information: Original German essays published between 1993 and 2013
Topics: Political Sociology, Political Science, Social Theory, Sociology of Culture