Shiping Tang is Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs (SIRPA), Fudan Univeristy, Shanghai, China. He has a very broad research interest and has published widely. He is the author of A Theory of Security Strategy for Our Time: Defensive Realism (Palgrave-Macmillan 2010), A General Theory of Institutional Change (Routledge, 2011), and Social Evolution of International Politics (Oxford, 2013, forthcoming). He is also the co-editor of Living with China: Regional States and China through Crises and Turning Points (Palgrave-Macmillan 2009). His most recent journal publications include articles in Chinese Journal of International Politics, European Journal of International Relations, International Security, International Studies Review, Journal of Economic Issues, Journal of Strategic Studies, Review of International Studies, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Security Studies, and World Politics.
Institutional change is a central driving force behind social changes, and thus a central topic in all major fields of social sciences. Yet, no general theory of institutional change exists. Drawing from a diverse literature, this book develops a general theory of institutional change, based on a social evolutionary synthesis of the conflict approach and the harmony approach. The book argues that because the whole process of institutional change can be understood as a process of selecting a few ideas and turning them into institutions, competition of ideas and struggle for power to make rules are often at the heart of institutional change. The general theory not only integrates more specific theories and insights on institutional change that have been scattered in different fields into a coherent general theory but also provides fundamental new insights and points to new directions for future research. This book makes a fundamental contribution to all major fields of social sciences: sociology (sociological theory), political sciences, institutional economics, and political theory. It should be of general interest to scholars and students in all major fields of social science.
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讀完此書第一感受是,作者對於自己構建的製度變遷的廣義理論十分自信,全書隨處可見對所謂和諧學派與衝突學派的批判,用詞毫不客氣,“伎倆”、“欺騙”、“詭計”、“幻想”之類詞語隨處可見。通讀全書,讀者則會發現作者具有明顯的西方學者的寫作風格,這自然與其國外的求學...
評分讀完此書第一感受是,作者對於自己構建的製度變遷的廣義理論十分自信,全書隨處可見對所謂和諧學派與衝突學派的批判,用詞毫不客氣,“伎倆”、“欺騙”、“詭計”、“幻想”之類詞語隨處可見。通讀全書,讀者則會發現作者具有明顯的西方學者的寫作風格,這自然與其國外的求學...
評分讀完此書第一感受是,作者對於自己構建的製度變遷的廣義理論十分自信,全書隨處可見對所謂和諧學派與衝突學派的批判,用詞毫不客氣,“伎倆”、“欺騙”、“詭計”、“幻想”之類詞語隨處可見。通讀全書,讀者則會發現作者具有明顯的西方學者的寫作風格,這自然與其國外的求學...
評分讀完此書第一感受是,作者對於自己構建的製度變遷的廣義理論十分自信,全書隨處可見對所謂和諧學派與衝突學派的批判,用詞毫不客氣,“伎倆”、“欺騙”、“詭計”、“幻想”之類詞語隨處可見。通讀全書,讀者則會發現作者具有明顯的西方學者的寫作風格,這自然與其國外的求學...
評分讀完此書第一感受是,作者對於自己構建的製度變遷的廣義理論十分自信,全書隨處可見對所謂和諧學派與衝突學派的批判,用詞毫不客氣,“伎倆”、“欺騙”、“詭計”、“幻想”之類詞語隨處可見。通讀全書,讀者則會發現作者具有明顯的西方學者的寫作風格,這自然與其國外的求學...
圖書標籤: 國際關係 唐世平 方法論 比較政治 製度經濟學 製度變遷 國際政治 國關理論
炫技作品。長處是把權力和觀念的變遷和interplay納入製度變遷的框架。最大的弱點可能是變遷的階段論無始無終,每階段都是共時發生,如果要構成實證上摸得著的階段隻能對製度粗暴地分離與簡化。對“衝突”路徑的批評也有些奇怪,批評該路徑無法解釋如果製度是偏嚮勝者的利益為何人類總體welfare如何增進瞭,但同時他采用對welfare的測量是人口,人均壽命和人均GDP? 另,這本書裏“naive”的齣現頻數是讀過的文獻綜述裏最多的:)
評分總結文獻部分很enlightening,對自己理論的解釋力的解讀也算是有理有據。之所以扣瞭一分大概是因為general theory總會有大而無當之嫌,換句話說就是以我粗淺的水平還沒看懂有什麼更大的implication。 讀完最後一章覺得其實這是全書最好的部分……
評分文獻綜述部分用衝突和和諧二元對立未免太簡單瞭。體現瞭傳說中的“一定要和大理論對話”。
評分文獻綜述和論點提齣值得學習。
評分還有幾章沒看完。作者將以往解釋機製變遷的理論分為“和諧”、“衝突”兩大路徑,有些粗略,文獻迴顧提到的基本都是最高級大牛。然後誇大、絕對化兩條路徑各自的缺點(以往一些理論為瞭將理論做得深刻,且堅持自己範式的優秀性而故意使用較少的變量,同時不願意藉用對方陣營的理論來調和自己的範式,進而的確存在一些解釋力不足的現象)。再提齣自己的所謂大一統理論,聲稱可以彌補以往理論的不足,將兩大路勁置於自己設計的理論框架之下。進而藉用生物學進化的因果機製解釋、對應機製變遷。類比有些簡單,且難免有王婆賣瓜之嫌。目前尚未看到紮實的案例驗證。唐老師可能是比較擅長理論演繹
A General Theory of Institutional Change 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載