Reconfiguring Institutions Across Time and Space: Syncretic Responses to Challenges of Political and

Introduction The Dilemma of Institutional Adaptation and the Role of Syncretism; D.C.Galvan & R.Sil PART I: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS Syncretism and Local-Level Democracy in Senegal; D.C.Galvan Institutional Syncretism and the Chinese Armed Forces; T.Bickford Institutional Syncretism in Argentina's Party System and Peronist Political Culture; P.Ostiguy (En)Durable Syncretism: Hizballah in the "Space Between"; S.Philbrick Yadav PART II: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS The Dynamics of Institutional Adaptation and the Fruitful Emergence of Managerial Syncretism in Japan; R.Sil Legal Syncretism and Family Change in Urban and Rural China; N.J.Diamant Working Is Celebrating: The Syncretic Politics of Labor Transformation in Rural Zambia; P.Hoon Pathways of Institutional Diffusion Under Leninism: A Historical Comparison of Romania and Hungary; C.Chen Brazil's 1964-1967 Economic Stabilization Plan as Institutional Syncretism; C.Kearney