Inhabited Institutionalism

New Institutionalism Politics: Integration of Old Institutionalism and Other Methodologies

In the process of transition from old institutionalism to new institutionalism, theoretical foundation of old institutionalism was gradually enlarged and more research approaches were integrated. Firstly, rational aspects of behavioristic politics as borrowed. Then, its epistemology, its research target and research level are expanded. Finally, relevant theories of economics, sociology and hist...

Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics

This article provides an overview of recent developments in historical institutionalism. First, it reviews some distinctions that are commonly drawn between the “historical” and the “rational choice” variants of institutionalism and shows that there are more points of tangency than typically assumed. However, differences remain in how scholars in the two traditions approach empirical problems. ...

IMP and the two traditions of institutionalism

This paper makes a theoretical contribution to the IMP tradition by revisiting the relationship between institutionalism and the “markets-as-networks” approach. In particular, the diversity of institutional thought is reviewed and different strands of institutional thought identified. It is argued that an engagement with these broader institutional traditions has the potential to contribute to ...

Historical Institutionalism in Rationalist and Sociological Perspective

Some of the most fruitful insights generated by social science in recent decades flow from explorations of how institutions, under­ stood as sets of regularized practices with a rule-like quality, struc­ ture the behavior of political and economic actors. I It is not surpris­ ing that attention has now turned to the second-order problem of explaining when and how institutions change. 2 In conce...

Security Relations and Institutionalism in Southeast Asia