Abstract: Elaborating the “New Institutionalism” – Rational Choice Institutionalism – Historical Institutionalism – Constructivist Institutionalism – Network Institutionalism – Old Institutionalisms – The State and State-Building – Development of Civil Society – Economic Institutions – Exclusion, Inclusion, and Political Institutions – Analyzing Constitutions – Comparative Constitutions – American Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations – Comparative Federalism – Territorial Institutions – Executives—The American Presidency – Executives In Parliamentary Government – Comparative Executive–Legislative Relations – Public Bureaucracies – The Welfare State – The Regulatory State? – Legislative Organization – Comparative Legislative Behavior – Bicameralism – Comparative Local Governance – Judicial Institutions – The Judicial Process and Public Policy – Political Parties In and Out of Legislatures – Electoral Systems – Direct Democracy – International Political Institutions – International Security Institutions: Rules, Tools, Schools, or Fools? – International Economic Institutions – International NGOs – Encounters With Modernity – About Institutions, Mainly, but not Exclusively, Political – Thinking Institutionally – Political Institutions—Old And New

Keywords: America, bicameralism, civil society, constitution, democracy, development, electoral system, federalism, governance, government, historical institutionalism, legislature, new institutionalism, parliament, rational choice, society, state, welfare state