Dworkinian Interpretivism after the Institutional Turn

Extending the ‘ Institutional ’ Turn Property , Politics and Development Trajectories

As institutional approaches have come to dominate the mainstream of development economics, they have outgrown earlier and simpler analyses of ‘property rights’. This paper focuses on the work of Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson, which suggests that the distribution of property rights to a ‘broad cross-section of the population’ is the key to growth and that property rights protection that privil...

Interpretivism and the meaning of mental state ascriptions

To the Framingham data, turn, turn, turn.

Version of Record : S . Field ( 2015 ) . ' The state : Spinoza ' s institutional turn ' , in A . Santos

Pragmatism vs interpretivism in qualitative information systems research

Qualitative research is often associated with interpretivism, but alternatives do exist. Besides critical research and sometimes positivism, qualitative research in information systems can be performed following a paradigm of pragmatism. This paradigm is associated with action, intervention and constructive knowledge. This paper has picked out interpretivism and pragmatism as two possible and i...