Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- One: The Dilemma of Institutional Adaptation and the Role of Syncretism -- Political Institutions -- Two: Syncretism and Local-Level Democracy in Rural Senegal -- Three: Institutional Syncretism and the Chinese Armed Forces -- Four: Syncretism in Argentina's Party System and Peronist Political Culture -- Five: (En)Durable Syncretism: Hizballah in the "Space Between" -- Economic and Social Institutions -- Six: The Dynamics of Institutional Adaptation and the Fruitful Emergence of Managerial Syncretism in Japan -- Seven: Legal Syncretism and Family Change in Urban and Rural China -- Eight: Working is Celebrating: The Syncretic Politics of Labor Transformation in Rural Zambia -- Nine: Pathways of Institutional Diffusion under Leninism: A Historical Comparison of Romania and Hungary -- Ten: Brazil's 1964-67 Economic Stabilization Plan as Institutional Syncretism -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.