INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................... 1750 I. THE MODEL: “WORLD POLITY” INSTITUTIONALISM AND THE STATE............. 1753 A. Understanding Social Organization: Sociological Institutionalism .......................................................................... 1754 B. Understanding the State as a Social Organization: ...

Abstract Institutionalism gives priority to structure over agency. Yet institutions have never developed and operated without the intervention of interested groups. This paper develops a conceptual framework for role agency in historical institutionalism. Based on recent contributions following coalitional turn drawing insights from sociological institutionalism, it argues that plays key creati...

Designing family technologies is a dynamic challenge that may benefit from an equally dynamic theoretical perspective. We propose adapting the paradigm of segmented institutionalism, previously applied to the analysis of organizational work, to investigations of family technologies. We provide an example of our own work designing technology with divorced families to highlight this perspective’s...