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help in understanding the apparent maladaptation of institutions after long periods of stability, or the challenge to institutio ...

must interject here Polanyi’s now-classic observation that the decision to let markets determine outcomes is itself anormativech ...

dependence that is central to HI is compatible with diverse scholarly orientations toward agency in pathestablishment, as well a ...

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New Dealclients, but not themselvesagentsof labor policy change in the New Deal. (For an opposing view that stresses labor agenc ...

phenomenon of bureaucratic entrepreneurship of the order reported by Carpenter may itself be time-bound, particularly marking th ...

organized in the minds of national political leaders and then articulated to the masses, Bensel sees party leaders instrumentall ...

connections made between American dissidents and European fascists were no longer sustainable (Brinkley 1982 ). These path-break ...

purveyors of war-related services, and most prospered as a result of the wartime state–group cooperation (though, one may ask, a ...

science, Lowi pioneered both the ‘‘return to the state’’ and an early formulation of path dependence. His deWnition of instituti ...

Of course, the marshalling of suYcient empirical evidence to make one’s case will inevitably limit the time period covered, and ...

it may be time for a critical examination of theinstitutionof the presidency, quite apart from the usual attention to the indivi ...

Goodwin,L. 1976 .Democratic Promise: The Populist Movement in America. New York: Oxford University Press. Hacker,J. 2002 .The Di ...

Sanders,E. 1999 .Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877 – 1917. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. S ...

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inception. It is, nonetheless, already highly distinctive (ontologically, analytically, and methodologically), and it poses a se ...

Table 4.1 The ontological distinctiveness of constructivist institutionalism Rational choiceinstitutionalism Historicalinstituti ...

evolution occurs institutional template 2 Focus onrational institutionaldesign 2 ‘‘Punctuatedequilibrium’’ yetlittle emphasison ...

institutionaldisequilibrium. 3 As such, rational choice and normative/sociological institutionalism, which rely albeit for rathe ...

‘‘cultural’’ logics, then it is perhaps not diYcult to see why. For, as already noted, instrumental logics of calculation (calcu ...