New Institutionalism Politics: Integration of Old Institutionalism and Other Methodologies

The Approach of Institutional Economics (March 1998)

T THE TERM “new institutional economics” is in widespread use and is associated with a vast literature. Clearly, the temporal adjective in the adopted title of this broad set of postwar theories and approaches has been intended to demarcate the “new institutional economics” from the “old” institutional economics of Thorstein Veblen, John Commons, and Wesley Mitchell. This earlier institutionali...

FIELD STATEMENT POLITICS DEPARTMENT: APPROACHES TO COMPARATIVE POLITICS: A CULTURAL POLITICS CRITIQUE INTRODUCTION APPROACHES Developmentalism Crisis in Modernization Dependency New Institutionalism Rational Choice Cultural Politics Cultural political analysis of the formal political realm Democracy POLITICAL CULTURE

The Politics of Regulation: From New Institutionalism to New Governance

The study of the politics of regulation has followed two distinct paths in recent years. “New institutionalism” research has focused primarily on the policy-making process, particularly the interplay between regulators (who implement policy) and their political principals (who attempt to control regulators’ activity). In contrast, “new governance” scholarship has focused on strategies other tha...

Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms*

The ‘new institutionalism’ is a term that now appears with growing frequency in political science. However, there is considerable confusion about just what the ‘new institutionalism’ is, how it differs from other approaches, and what sort of promise or problems it displays. The object of this essay is to provide some preliminary answers to these questions by reviewing recent work in a burgeonin...

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. ...