Finally, there is still something of a tension it seems between the assuredness and
conWdence with which the superiority of constructivist institutionalist insights are
proclaimed and the theoretical modesty that a constructivist ontology and episte-
mology would seem almost naturally to entail. None of these are fundamental
impediments to the development of a fourth new institutionalism alongside the
others; but they do provide a sense of the debates that must, and are likely to, animate
the constructivist institutionalist research programme over the next decade.
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