The limits of institutional engineering : lessons from Iraq /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Waldner, David
Corporate Author:	United States Institute of Peace
Format:	Government Document Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace, May 2009.
Series:	Special report (United States Institute of Peace) ; 222.
Subjects:	Public administration > Iraq. Postwar reconstruction > Iraq. Political planning > Iraq. Iraq > Social policy. Iraq > Politics and government > 2003-
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Table of Contents:

Introduction
The conventional (institutional) wisdom
Experimental versus observational studies
Prewar prescriptions
Postwar postmortems
Civil war in Iraq: institutions as indicators
Antecedent conditions: the structure of conflicts
Institutional selection
Hedging: an underlying indicator
Recent success, future stability: does institutional engineering provide the foundation?
Conclusions: do institutions matter?