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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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