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is premised. Actors cannot simply be assumed to have aWxed (and immutable) preference set, to be blessed with extensive (often p ...

institutionalism (notably Peter Hall (with David Soskice, 2001 ) and Paul Pierson ( 2004 )) seem increasingly to have resolved t ...

in which they will have to be realized. As this suggests, for constructivists, politics is rather less about the blind pursuit o ...

eliminate whole ranges of possibilities from later choices while serving as the very condition of existence of others (see also ...

3 Constructivist Institutionalism Applied: Crises, Paradigm Shifts, and Uncertainty ............................................ ...

paradigm remains largely unchallenged (at least within the conWnes of the policy-making arena) and in which change is largely in ...

role in establishing a new trajectory of institutional evolution. They are, in other words, not reducible to the condition they ...

However intuitively plausible or obvious this may seem, it is important to note that it sits in some considerable tension to alm ...

public sector workers were unclear about their interests in resisting enforced wage moderation? Or to see the Callaghan Governme ...

crisis itself. The overly parsimonious conception of crises as moments of Knightian uncertainty may, in this respect, obscure mo ...

predictive science of politics is possible. Yet whether its clear superiority to other contending positions has already been, or ...

Finally, there is still something of a tension it seems between the assuredness and conWdence with which the superiority of cons ...

Hay,C. 2002 .Political Analysis. Basingstoke: Palgrave. —— 2004 a. Theory, stylised heuristic or self-fulWlling prophecy? The st ...

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phenomena are explained in terms of the attributes of individuals, groups, or organizations. Network institutionalism, by contra ...

ment or a cooperative exchange between two public agencies. Although conXict between two individuals or organizations could also ...

the pyramid. However, many discussions, particularly in organization theory, suggest that networks are diVerent from hierarchies ...

Social network analysis also distinguishes between ‘‘cohesion’’ and ‘‘equivalence’’ as the basis for sub-groups. The cohesion ap ...

by deWnition it reXects only ego’s network. Alternatively, acomplete networkprovides a more comprehensive perspective. Data for ...

‘‘iron triangle.’’ A closely related stream of European work on policy networks grew out of studies of corporatism and interest ...