Politics : 4 Policy Networks
The network analysis literature described above has mostly been developed in sociology and anthropology. In political science, a largely separate…
Politics : Network Analysis
One of the distinguishing features of network institutionalism is the availability of a range of quantitative techniques designed to analyze…
Politics : What is a Network?
A network is a set of relationships between individuals, groups, or organizations. A relationship, for example, might be a friendship…
Politics : Constructivist Institutionalism Applied: Crises, Paradigm Shifts, and Uncertainty
Whilst there may well be something of a tension between the contemporary trajec- tory of historical institutionalism and the developing…
Politics : The Analytical and Ontological Distinctiveness of Constructivist Institutionalism
In the context, then, of contemporary developments in new institutionalist schol- arship, the analytical and ontological assumptions of constructivist institutionalism…
Politics : From Historical to Constructivist Institutionalism
Constructivist institutionalism, as I will label it, has its origins in attempts to grapple with questions of complex institutional change—initially…
Politics : The Dynamics of State–Society Interaction in HI
As Skocpol’s focus on the ‘‘patriotic partnerships’’ developed in wartime suggests (Skocpol 2003; Skocpol, Munson, Karch, and Bayliss 2002), social…
Politics : Societal Agents in Institutional Development and Change
Political scientists, historians, and sociologists of the 1960s–80s grew uncomfort- able with the implication that elites were the motor of…
Politics : Institutional Formation and Change from the Top Down
The 1980s revival of HI among political scientists in the United States was strongly centered on actors in the national…
Politics : Three Varieties of Historical Institutionalism: Agents of Development and Change
If institutions are humanly designed constraints on subsequent human action, then those who study them over time will inevitably be…