How Proximate and ‘Meta-Institutional’ Contexts Shape Institutional Change: Explaining the Rise of the People's Bank of China

Bell, Stephen; Feng, Hui

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“…In this respect, the paper has shown that Streeck and Thelen's lenses of institutional change add significant value in terms of accounting for the multiple dimensions of change following a crisis over time. In moving forward, the paper suggests that assessments of reform following a crisis can be developed by making more explicit linkages with the conceptual insights of institutional literatures in order to conceptualize the multiple outcomes of crises over time and in terms of viewing crisis managers as situated institutional agents who interact with their meta‐institutional contexts (Bell et al., ).…”

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“…In terms of the 2001 foot and mouth crisis, the disease outbreak was not only an external shock because of the vulnerabilities associated with the illegal importation of infected pig swill to the UK (the most likely explanation for the outbreak), but reflected the institutionally ingrained inertia within Maff, which struggled to cope given the long shadow of the BSE crisis. In terms of this research agenda, there is evidence in the institutional change literature of the emergence of a review of the ‘sticky’ depictions of institutional life in that the institutional change literature should, when seeking to explain the patterns of crises and critical junctures, ‘consider the dialectical interactions over time between agents located within specific institutions and wider meta‐institutional contexts’ (Bell et al., ). This paper supports this position in terms of assessing the dynamics of situated agents as crisis managers and their politico‐bureaucratic contexts over time.…”

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Dynamics of Change in the Aftermath of the 2001 UK Foot and Mouth Crisis: Were Lessons Learned?

Connolly

2014

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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This article investigates the UK animal health sector in the aftermath of the 2001 foot and mouth crisis.The article draws together perspectives from crisis management, policy and institutional change literatures in order to assess the extent of reforms since the epidemic. Interviews with government officials and parliamentarians and the analyses of official documentation indicate that lessons have been learned and there are successes in many areas; yet, there remains key aspects of crisis management that have yet to change, which leave the government vulnerable in the event of more wide-scale foot and mouth outbreaks. The results of the study serve to suggest that post-crisis change research should consider making more explicit links with the institutional literature on change dynamics.

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Dynamics of Change in the Aftermath of the 2001 UK Foot and Mouth Crisis: Were Lessons Learned?

Connolly

2014

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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“…This approach to studying agents, who in this instance are party leaders, to shape their environment can also be seen as having ties to historical institutionalism (HI). For instance, in the view of Bell (2011Bell ( , 2012 and Bell and Feng (2014), by avoiding 'sticky versions of HI' and instead by using an 'agents in context' approach to historical institutionalism, both exogenous and endogenous changes can be successfully explored. The approach of this article is to explore the context in which the ALP as an institution evolved, while recognising the importance of party leaders as central agents in these institutions.…”

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Agency, institutional stretch and structural adjustment

Kefford

2014

Party Politics

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This article examines the case study of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from December 2006 to October 2013. During this period the party fought three federal elections. In 2007 they won government after 11 years in opposition. In 2010 they were required to form a minority government to stay in power and in 2013 they were comprehensively defeated. Beneath the surface though, party leaders were able to exercise agency to stretch their influence beyond their prescribed authority and to contribute directly to unexpected structural reform in the party. Altering the way the party leader was selected had up to this point been resisted by Australia's major parties. This article will explore the context in which this period of stretch and reform occurred and will compare the ALP case to the pre-existing literature on institutional stretch and expansion of the leadership selectorate.

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“…Earlier versions of institutional theory and historical institutionalism in particular have been criticised for portraying institutions as overly constraining, deterministic and resistant to change (Schmidt, 2010: 2; Blyth, 1997: 230;Bell, 2011;Bell and Feng, 2014;Bell and Hindmoor, 2014). Thelen and Steinmo (1992: 16) argue that a "critical inadequacy of institutionalist analysis has been a tendency towards mechanical, static accounts that largely bracket the issue of change and sometimes lapse inadvertently into institutional determinism".…”

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“…As described in more detail in Chapter 3, Agents in Context Historical Institutionalism (AiC-HI) was developed by as a more flexible version of historical institutionalism that integrates a broader range of causal variables, including formal and informal agents, institutions, ideas, context and structure, but which does not privilege any one of these variables over another. To date, AiC-HI has primarily been applied as an analytical framework to better understand the subject area of banking and financial systems (see Bell and Hindmoor, 2014;Bell and Feng, 2014;Bell, 2012). This thesis therefore makes a theoretical contribution to knowledge by extending the application of AiC-HI to a new subject area.…”

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Much ado about nothing? The rhetoric and reality of the nuclear renaissance

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Since 2000, swathes of energy experts, government officials, industry representatives and journalists have predicted the emergence of a global 'nuclear renaissance.' Nuclear energy was said to be on the precipice of a new era of development, characterised by widespread construction of new nuclear reactors and a concomitant increase in global nuclear capacity. Despite this expectation, there is little evidence to date which suggests that a revival of nuclear power has taken place in the regions of Western Europe and North America in the way that the rhetoric depicted. This thesis therefore seeks to firstly establish that there is a disjuncture between the rhetoric and reality of the nuclear renaissance in Western Europe and North America, and secondly, to explain why this disjuncture exists.Academic and journalistic debate over recent developments in civil nuclear energy policy has tended to focus on two key reasons for why there has not been a widespread expansion of nuclear energy in these regions. Firstly, that the nuclear disaster at Fukushima in 2011 reignited concerns over nuclear safety, thereby eroding public and political support for nuclear new build. Secondly, that the economic problems facing nuclear development continued to act as a major disincentive to the construction of new nuclear power plants. However, the global applicability of these two issues means that neither of these explanations can explain why the nuclear renaissance appears to have failed in Western Europe and North America, while nuclear new build is expanding in other parts of the world. Moreover, the revival of safety concerns post-Fukushima fails to explain why there was little evidence of a nuclear renaissance taking place prior to March 2011.This thesis provides a contribution to knowledge by adopting a more holistic and inductive approach for understanding why there is a disjuncture between the expectation and reality of the nuclear renaissance in Western Europe and North America. It challenges existing explanations for the failure of the nuclear renaissance as being simplistic, mono-causal and a-historical. This thesis disputes the idea that the absence of a widespread expansion of nuclear energy and the apparent failure of the nuclear renaissance can be attributed to any one problem or event. Instead, it embraces the simple premise that a broad range of contextual factors must be explored in order to fully understand why the rhetoric of a nuclear renaissance has not become a reality.An extensive analysis of government, industry and media documents published from 1945 onwards, as well as interviews with experts in nuclear energy policy, was undertaken in order to establish a better understanding of how and why nuclear energy development changes over time. Through this process, it became clear that the reasons typically cited for explaining changes in nuclear development are 'nuclear-specific factors'. That is, factors relating directly to the construction and operation of nuclear power plants -such as the economics of ...

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How Proximate and ‘Meta-Institutional’ Contexts Shape Institutional Change: Explaining the Rise of the People's Bank of China

Cited by 29 publications

References 42 publications

Dynamics of Change in the Aftermath of the 2001 UK Foot and Mouth Crisis: Were Lessons Learned?

Dynamics of Change in the Aftermath of the 2001 UK Foot and Mouth Crisis: Were Lessons Learned?

Agency, institutional stretch and structural adjustment

Much ado about nothing? The rhetoric and reality of the nuclear renaissance

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