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While the concept of institution is central to much political analysis, there is wide diversity within and across disciplines in ...

them. They also impact institutional change, and create elements of ‘‘historical ineYciency’’. Another core assumption is that t ...

institutions and describe and explain how politics ‘‘really works’’ (Eulau and March 1969 , 16 ). Theorizing political instituti ...

changes over time and institutions are structured according to diVerent principles (Berger and Luckmann 1967 ; Eisenstadt 1965 ) ...

political institutions are generally less concerned withwhetherinstitutions matter, than to what extent, in what respects, throu ...

are socialized into culturally deWned purposes to be sought, as well as modes of appropriate procedures for pursuing the purpose ...

European identity (Habermas 1994 ). Still, it is diYcult to balance the development of common political institutions and the pro ...

4 Institutional Order and Change ............................................................................................... ...

The ideal that citizens and their representatives should be able to design political institutions at will, making governing thro ...

in particular, saw a ‘‘revolution in slow motion’’ (Olsen, Roness, and Sætren 1982 ). Since the end of the 1970 s most Western d ...

concept of institution assumes some internal coherence and consistency, conXict is also endemic in institutions. It cannot be as ...

Likewise, there are tensions between what is accepted as ‘‘rational,’’ ‘‘just,’’ and a ‘‘good argument’’ across institutional co ...

5 The Frontier of Institutionalism ............................................................................................. ...

indeed (Thelen 1999 ; Orren and Skowronek 2004 ; Streeck and Thelen 2005 ). Which institutional characteristics favor change and ...

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