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This Volume Explores The Unanticipated Consequences Of Emulating, Importing, Or Imposing New Institutional Models Without Commensurate Attention To The Particular Constellations Of Interests, Identities, Norms, And Social Relations Embedded In Local Communities. Each Chapter Is Organized Around A Common Problematic That Has Received Only Limited Attention In The Literature On Institutional Change: The Dilemmas Of Deploying The Rules, Practices, And Design Of Institutions That Have Been Imported Or Imposed From External Environments In Regions Where Actors Are More Familiar With And Find More Legitimate Locally Embedded Norms, Practices, Social Relations, And Knowledge Structures. The Volume Strives To Illustrate The Analytic Power Of The Concept Of ¿syncretism, ¿ A Concept That Can Be Fruitfully Deployed To Analyze Common Aspects Of Institutional Change Not Easily Captured In Existing Frameworks. The Dilemma Of Institutional Adaptation And The Role Of Syncretism / Dennis Galvan And Rudra Sil -- Part I: Political Institutions -- Syncretism And Local-level Democracy In Senegal / Dennis Galvan -- Institutional Syncretism And The Chinese Armed Forces / Thomas Bickford -- Institutional Syncretism In Argentina's Party System And Peronist Political Culture / Pierre Ostiguy -- (en)durable Syncretism: Hizballah In The Space Between / Stacey Philbrick Yadav -- Part Ii: Economic And Social Institutions -- The Dynamics Of Institutional Adaptation And The Fruitful Emergence Of Managerial Syncretism In Japan / Rudra Sil -- Legal Syncretism And Family Change In Urban And Rural China / Neil J. Diamant -- Working Is Celebrating: The Syncretic Politics Of Labor Transformation In Rural Zambia / Parakh Hoon -- Pathways Of Institutional Diffusion Under Leninism: A Historical Comparison Of Romania And Hungary / Cheng Chen -- Brazil's 1964-1967 Economic Stabilization Plan As Institutional Syncretism / Christine Kearney. Edited By Dennis Galvan And Rudra Sil. Includes Bibliographical Refer