Christopher K Ansell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3705083 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Christopher K Ansell |
| PRENOMES | Christopher K |
| SOBRENOME | Ansell |
| ASSINATURA | ANSELL C K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 495 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The construction of the EU as a strategic entrepreneur
The paper investigates how the EU operates as a strategic entrepreneur in different contexts and what enables the EU to do so. We develop a synthetic and dynamic approach linking the EU’s internal characteristics with its internal and external strategies and actions, which we envision as an internal-external-internal cycle that advances European integration. First, we discuss the EU’s distinctive internal governance characteristics. Second, we de…
Countering fragmentation, taking back the state, or partisan agenda‐setting? Explaining policy integration and administrative coordination reforms
Policies to integrate and coordinate across sectors have become important in recent years, but we know little about the drivers of these reforms. This article evaluates three explanations for differences in patterns of policy integration and administrative coordination reforms across countries and policy sectors over time. Reform activity could reflect: (a) the fragmenting effects of agencification; (b) a strategy of governments to regain policy …
The Loss of Capacity in Public Organizations
Important challenges to the administrative, policy-making, and implementation capacities of public organizations have arisen in recent years. These challenges may arise from many quarters, including budget cuts, organizational reforms, and most ominously, political subterfuge. Although limits on capacity may be familiar to the public organizations that must cope with them, they are less well understood by outside observers. This analytical gap un…
Governance in Turbulent Times
What are the conditions for political development and decay, and the likelihood of sustained political order? What are the limits of established rule as we know it? How much stress can systems sustain before they reach some kind of limit? How do governments tackle enduring ambiguity and uncertainty in their systems and environments? These are some of the big questions of our time. Governance in turbulent times may serve as a stress-test of well-k…
Varieties of experimentalism
Pragmatist DemocracyEvolutionary Learning as Public Philosophy
Here, Chris Ansell begins with a theory of the concept and then explains why the approach is ideal for addressing today's governance problems. Ansell argues that wishing away bureaucracy will not do given what we know about the indispensible role of institutions in contemporary governance.
Collaboration Is Not Enough
Over the past two decades, a burgeoning literature has touted the promise of regional collaboration to address a wide range of issues. This article challenges the premise that horizontal collaboration alone can empower regional decision-making venues. By analyzing efforts to create regional venues for transportation policy making in Chicago and Los Angeles, the authors show that vertical power is essential to building regional capacities. Only by…
Schism and Solidarity in Social Movements
Like many organizations and social movements, the Third Republic French labour movement exhibited a marked tendency to schism into competing sectarian organizations. During the roughly 50-year period from the fall of the Paris Commune to the creation of the powerful French Communist Party, the French labour movement shifted from schism to broad-based solidarity and back to schism. In this 2001 book, Ansell analyses the dynamic interplay between p…
Schism and Solidarity in Social Movements
Organizing International Politics
Changes in the meaning of sovereignty are at the center of intersecting discussions between comparative and international politics. This article uses open-system perspectives from organization theory to move beyond arguments over the erosion or resilience of sovereignty, toward more substantive questions about the nature of the boundaries of political actors, and to frame the possibility that changes in world politics are constituting new actors …
The Art of Being Indispensable
Max Weber's theory of leadership authority has deeply influenced theories of political parties, but Weber's concept of charisma is often used indiscriminately to refer to all kinds of personalist leadership. What is more, Weber's tripartite typology of traditional, charismatic and rational-legal authority neglects a form of leadership often found in major contemporary political parties. This article formulates a differentiated typology and concep…
French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere
The Mass Production of Craft Unionism
Bosses of the City Unite! Labor Politics and Political Machine Consolidation, 1870–1910
In the late nineteenth century – an age when the phrase “all politics is local” contained even greater truth than it does today – the distinctive institution of urban public life was the political machine. In assessing the machine's importance, some scholars have emphasized the machine's role in integrating newly arrived immigrants into the American political system, its provision of basic material goods to the impoverished, its promotion of upwa…
Dual Networks in European Regional Development Policy
This article seeks to extend the general analytical powers of the ‘multi‐level governance’ (MLG) model of politics in the European Union. Empirically, we investigate the political dynamics of networks linking supranational, national, and subnational actors in EU regional development policy. Theoretically, we argue that interaction in these networks can be illuminated by an approach based on the structuralist logic of sociological network theory. …
Symbolic Networks
How can abstract symbols provide the basis for organizational cohesion? In the early 1890s, the general strike provided such a symbol for French trade unions. In rallying around this symbol, the unions broke free from competing political loyalties and brought about a fundamental realignment of the French labor movement. The article argues that organizational cohesion emerges through the interplay between powerful symbols, political discourse, and…
Relations Into Rhetorics
The Politics of French Trade Unionism
Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434
This chapter examines the centralization of political power and elite networks in Renaissance Florence that underlie the birth of the Florentine state. It details how class revolt and fiscal crisis trigger elite consolidation while Cosimo de’ Medici exploits network disjuncture to navigate the inherent contradiction between judge and boss. The chapter presents a rigorous analysis of interwoven marriage, economic, and patronage ties that structure…
Consumer Cooperation in France
Cultures of Solidarity
Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434
This chapter examines the centralization of political power and elite networks in Renaissance Florence that underlie the birth of the Florentine state. It details how class revolt and fiscal crisis trigger elite consolidation while Cosimo de’ Medici exploits network disjuncture to navigate the inherent contradiction between judge and boss. The chapter presents a rigorous analysis of interwoven marriage, economic, and patronage ties that structure…
Dual Networks in European Regional Development Policy
This article seeks to extend the general analytical powers of the ‘multi‐level governance’ (MLG) model of politics in the European Union. Empirically, we investigate the political dynamics of networks linking supranational, national, and subnational actors in EU regional development policy. Theoretically, we argue that interaction in these networks can be illuminated by an approach based on the structuralist logic of sociological network theory. …
The Art of Being Indispensable
Max Weber's theory of leadership authority has deeply influenced theories of political parties, but Weber's concept of charisma is often used indiscriminately to refer to all kinds of personalist leadership. What is more, Weber's tripartite typology of traditional, charismatic and rational-legal authority neglects a form of leadership often found in major contemporary political parties. This article formulates a differentiated typology and concep…
Collaboration Is Not Enough
Over the past two decades, a burgeoning literature has touted the promise of regional collaboration to address a wide range of issues. This article challenges the premise that horizontal collaboration alone can empower regional decision-making venues. By analyzing efforts to create regional venues for transportation policy making in Chicago and Los Angeles, the authors show that vertical power is essential to building regional capacities. Only by…
Symbolic Networks
How can abstract symbols provide the basis for organizational cohesion? In the early 1890s, the general strike provided such a symbol for French trade unions. In rallying around this symbol, the unions broke free from competing political loyalties and brought about a fundamental realignment of the French labor movement. The article argues that organizational cohesion emerges through the interplay between powerful symbols, political discourse, and…
Countering fragmentation, taking back the state, or partisan agenda‐setting? Explaining policy integration and administrative coordination reforms
Policies to integrate and coordinate across sectors have become important in recent years, but we know little about the drivers of these reforms. This article evaluates three explanations for differences in patterns of policy integration and administrative coordination reforms across countries and policy sectors over time. Reform activity could reflect: (a) the fragmenting effects of agencification; (b) a strategy of governments to regain policy …
Organizing International Politics
Changes in the meaning of sovereignty are at the center of intersecting discussions between comparative and international politics. This article uses open-system perspectives from organization theory to move beyond arguments over the erosion or resilience of sovereignty, toward more substantive questions about the nature of the boundaries of political actors, and to frame the possibility that changes in world politics are constituting new actors …
The construction of the EU as a strategic entrepreneur
The paper investigates how the EU operates as a strategic entrepreneur in different contexts and what enables the EU to do so. We develop a synthetic and dynamic approach linking the EU’s internal characteristics with its internal and external strategies and actions, which we envision as an internal-external-internal cycle that advances European integration. First, we discuss the EU’s distinctive internal governance characteristics. Second, we de…
Bosses of the City Unite! Labor Politics and Political Machine Consolidation, 1870–1910
In the late nineteenth century – an age when the phrase “all politics is local” contained even greater truth than it does today – the distinctive institution of urban public life was the political machine. In assessing the machine's importance, some scholars have emphasized the machine's role in integrating newly arrived immigrants into the American political system, its provision of basic material goods to the impoverished, its promotion of upwa…
Cultures of Solidarity
Consumer Cooperation in France
The Politics of French Trade Unionism
Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434
This chapter examines the centralization of political power and elite networks in Renaissance Florence that underlie the birth of the Florentine state. It details how class revolt and fiscal crisis trigger elite consolidation while Cosimo de’ Medici exploits network disjuncture to navigate the inherent contradiction between judge and boss. The chapter presents a rigorous analysis of interwoven marriage, economic, and patronage ties that structure…
Relations Into Rhetorics
Bosses of the City Unite! Labor Politics and Political Machine Consolidation, 1870–1910
In the late nineteenth century – an age when the phrase “all politics is local” contained even greater truth than it does today – the distinctive institution of urban public life was the political machine. In assessing the machine's importance, some scholars have emphasized the machine's role in integrating newly arrived immigrants into the American political system, its provision of basic material goods to the impoverished, its promotion of upwa…
Dual Networks in European Regional Development Policy
This article seeks to extend the general analytical powers of the ‘multi‐level governance’ (MLG) model of politics in the European Union. Empirically, we investigate the political dynamics of networks linking supranational, national, and subnational actors in EU regional development policy. Theoretically, we argue that interaction in these networks can be illuminated by an approach based on the structuralist logic of sociological network theory. …
Symbolic Networks
How can abstract symbols provide the basis for organizational cohesion? In the early 1890s, the general strike provided such a symbol for French trade unions. In rallying around this symbol, the unions broke free from competing political loyalties and brought about a fundamental realignment of the French labor movement. The article argues that organizational cohesion emerges through the interplay between powerful symbols, political discourse, and…
French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere
The Mass Production of Craft Unionism
Organizing International Politics
Changes in the meaning of sovereignty are at the center of intersecting discussions between comparative and international politics. This article uses open-system perspectives from organization theory to move beyond arguments over the erosion or resilience of sovereignty, toward more substantive questions about the nature of the boundaries of political actors, and to frame the possibility that changes in world politics are constituting new actors …
The Art of Being Indispensable
Max Weber's theory of leadership authority has deeply influenced theories of political parties, but Weber's concept of charisma is often used indiscriminately to refer to all kinds of personalist leadership. What is more, Weber's tripartite typology of traditional, charismatic and rational-legal authority neglects a form of leadership often found in major contemporary political parties. This article formulates a differentiated typology and concep…
Schism and Solidarity in Social Movements
Like many organizations and social movements, the Third Republic French labour movement exhibited a marked tendency to schism into competing sectarian organizations. During the roughly 50-year period from the fall of the Paris Commune to the creation of the powerful French Communist Party, the French labour movement shifted from schism to broad-based solidarity and back to schism. In this 2001 book, Ansell analyses the dynamic interplay between p…
Schism and Solidarity in Social Movements
Collaboration Is Not Enough
Over the past two decades, a burgeoning literature has touted the promise of regional collaboration to address a wide range of issues. This article challenges the premise that horizontal collaboration alone can empower regional decision-making venues. By analyzing efforts to create regional venues for transportation policy making in Chicago and Los Angeles, the authors show that vertical power is essential to building regional capacities. Only by…
Pragmatist DemocracyEvolutionary Learning as Public Philosophy
Here, Chris Ansell begins with a theory of the concept and then explains why the approach is ideal for addressing today's governance problems. Ansell argues that wishing away bureaucracy will not do given what we know about the indispensible role of institutions in contemporary governance.
Governance in Turbulent Times
What are the conditions for political development and decay, and the likelihood of sustained political order? What are the limits of established rule as we know it? How much stress can systems sustain before they reach some kind of limit? How do governments tackle enduring ambiguity and uncertainty in their systems and environments? These are some of the big questions of our time. Governance in turbulent times may serve as a stress-test of well-k…
Varieties of experimentalism
The Loss of Capacity in Public Organizations
Important challenges to the administrative, policy-making, and implementation capacities of public organizations have arisen in recent years. These challenges may arise from many quarters, including budget cuts, organizational reforms, and most ominously, political subterfuge. Although limits on capacity may be familiar to the public organizations that must cope with them, they are less well understood by outside observers. This analytical gap un…
Countering fragmentation, taking back the state, or partisan agenda‐setting? Explaining policy integration and administrative coordination reforms
Policies to integrate and coordinate across sectors have become important in recent years, but we know little about the drivers of these reforms. This article evaluates three explanations for differences in patterns of policy integration and administrative coordination reforms across countries and policy sectors over time. Reform activity could reflect: (a) the fragmenting effects of agencification; (b) a strategy of governments to regain policy …
The construction of the EU as a strategic entrepreneur
The paper investigates how the EU operates as a strategic entrepreneur in different contexts and what enables the EU to do so. We develop a synthetic and dynamic approach linking the EU’s internal characteristics with its internal and external strategies and actions, which we envision as an internal-external-internal cycle that advances European integration. First, we discuss the EU’s distinctive internal governance characteristics. Second, we de…
Political science (18 obras) · Sociology (17 obras) · Politics (15 obras) · Economics (14 obras) · Law (14 obras) · Political economy (10 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Epistemology (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (5 obras)