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Elaborating the “New Institutionalism”

2009
Abstract This article expands on ideas that were presented over two decades ago in the article ‘The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life’. Here, some theoretical ideas were suggested that clarify certain aspects of the role of institutions in political life. This article aims to continue on elaborating the ideas
James G. March, Johan P. Olsen
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New Institutionalisms

Abstract The three traditional neo-institutionalisms—rational choice, historical, sociological—differ as much from one another as they do from discursive institutionalism. The differences are apparent in their objects and logics of explanation, in their definitions of actors and institutions, in their explanations of and approaches to
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Agency in New Institutionalism

2016
This chapter deals with agency in new institutionalism, often argued to be sparsely theorized. A critical assessment is made of the micro-level theorizing of the dominant versions of new institutionalism. After that we present and assess the argument of Vivienne Lowndes and Mark Roberts (2013: Why institutions matter: The new institutionalism in ...
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New Political Institutionalism

2017
This chapter makes a critical assessment of how different versions of new institutionalism understand and conceptualize agency. We argue that they lack a more nuanced understanding of human agency and how it relates to institutions. We further argue for the need to take political agency seriously, to perceive institutional change and stability as being
Erik Hysing, Jan Olsson
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Institutionalism Old and New*

Ratio Juris, 1993
AbstractThe author deals with the legal theoretical approach that has been labelled “legal institutionalism.” An old and a new version of this approach are singled out: The old one is identified with the theory defended by the Italian public lawyer Santi Romano in the first half of this century; the second one is seen in the recent work by Ota ...
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Sociology and the New Institutionalism

2015
In sociology, new institutionalists led the revival in interest in institutions in organizational theory and economic sociology by shifting the focus of causal reasoning from agent-centric studies of economic and organizational actors to the relationship connecting the firm with its institutional environment.
Nee, Victor, Opper, Sonja
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The Old Institutionalism and the New

Polity, 2008
When scholars of the United States talk about "the state as a conceptual variable," or "bringing the state back in," it is not always clear what is being prescribed, or even what the object of study is. To some extent, this dissonance is the result of three separate arguments, in each of which it is important to define what the state is and does, but ...
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The New Institutionalism Revisited

2015
Donges, Patrick, Nitschke, Paula
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Beyond codifying common sense: from an historical to critical institutionalism

Studies in Political Economy, 2021
Dennis Pilon
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The New Institutionalism

2010
Mark Bevir, R. A. W. Rhodes
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