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Politics : The Epistemology of Historical Institutionalism and its Competitors

The search for the causes and agents of institutional change has had many epistemological consequences, not least of which was…

Politics : The Waning and Waxing of Historical Institutionalism

It is true that some classic works that analyze institutions in historical perspective have enjoyed a more or less continuous…

Politics : ‘‘Limitations’’ of Rational Choice Institutionalism

The research program of rational choice institutionalism is founded on abstrac- tion, simpliWcation, analytical rigor, and an insistence on clean…

Structured and Unstructured Institutions

I think of institutions that are robust over time, and lend themselves to compar- isons across settings, as structured. They…

Politics : Interpretations of Institutions

Within the rational choice tradition there are two now-standard ways to think about institutions.2 The Wrst takes institutions as exogenous…

Politics : The Frontier of Institutionalism

As the enthusiasm for ‘‘new institutional’’ approaches has Xourished over the last twenty years, so also has the skepticism. It…

Politics: Institutional Order and Change

The dynamics of institutional change include elements of design, competitive selection, and the accidents of external shocks (Goodin 1996, 24–5).…

Institutional Impacts on Political Actors and Outcomes

Although it is argued that much of the ‘‘established wisdom’’ about the eVects of political institutions is very fragile (Rothstein…

Theorizing Political Institutions

The status of institutionalism in political science has changed dramatically over the last Wfty years—from an invective to the claim…

Politics : An Institutional Perspective

An institution is a relatively enduring collection of rules and organized practices, embedded in structures of meaning and resources that…