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An institutional approach for archaeology

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2020
Abstract Theoretical development in archaeology is hindered when basic reference terms such as ‘the settlement,’ ‘the site,’ or ‘society,’ have little relation to the behavior to be explained. Such units were not the organizations that people deployed for the activities important to them. We present an institutional framework that, we argue, helps to
Jacob Holland-Lulewicz, Megan Anne Conger, Jennifer Birch, Stephen A. Kowalewski, Travis W. Jones   +4 more
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Change and continuity: an institutional approach to institutions of democratic government

European Political Science Review, 2009
While it is commonplace to argue that political institutions are a source of inertia and resistance to change and the New Institutionalism is unable to explain change, this paper takes the opposite view.First, the problem of change is reformulated and it is observed that institutions have a role in generating both order and change and in balancing the ...
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Models of institutional approach in the study of political institutions

Обозреватель–Observer, 2023
The author analyzes the concept of political institutions. The definition of the concept of “institution” is central to institutionalism and neoinstitutionalism, which seek to explain the causes of complex processes and phenomena in the political sphere.
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Blockchain and institutional complexity: an extended institutional approach

Journal of Institutional Economics, 2020
AbstractFrom a modern institutional economics viewpoint, blockchain is an institutional technology that minimizes transaction costs and greatly reduces intermediation. Through an analysis of blockchain, I demonstrate the possibilities of extended institutional approach – a new generation of complexity-focused methodologies and theories of institutional
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Institutional Economics and the Substantive approach

2007
This work analyses the substantive basis of the institutional approach to the study of the economy. The term “substantive” – as opposed to “formal” – derives from the distinction made by Carl Menger in the last edition of his Grunsaetze. We argue that in Menger’s account the two tendencies were complementary, hence providing a way out of the ...
SOLARI, STEFANO, RANGONE, MARCO
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