Institutional Theory in Political Science, Fourth Edition: The New InstitutionalismInstitutional theory plays a significant role in contemporary political science. As in the previous editions, the new fourth edition provides an overview of the major institutional approaches in the discipline, as well as considering the possibility of a more integrated institutional theory. This edition also contains two new chapters. One assesses the role of informal institutions and their linkages with formal structures of governing. The second new chapter provides a detailed discussion of the processes of institutionalization and deinstitutionalization. |
Contents
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I Varieties of institutionalism | 29 |
Normative institutionalism | 30 |
3 Rational choice theory and institutional theory | 53 |
Historical institutionalism | 80 |
5 Empirical institutionalism | 103 |
Discursive and constructivist institutionalism | 127 |
7 Sociological institutionalism | 144 |
9 International institutionalism | 184 |
III Issues in institutionalism | 202 |
10 Informal institutions and governing | 203 |
Their role in institutional theory | 218 |
IV Wrapping up | 234 |
One institutionalism or many? | 235 |
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Institutional Theory in Political Science: The New Institutionalism B. Guy Peters No preview available - 2019 |
Institutional Theory in Political Science: The New Institutionalism B. Guy Peters No preview available - 2019 |
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