Methodology of Social Sciences

Weber, Max; Shils, Edward; Finch, Henry

doi:10.4324/9781315124445

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“…. into a unified analytical construct") [43]. Therefore, a case would never be expected to wholly meet a type and occasionally a case might fall between two types.…”

Section: Limits To the Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These models differ in their governance design and we use them as the basis of a neutral "ideal type" typology for policy experiments [26] (following German sociologist Max Weber's conceptualisation of an "ideal type" [43]). These choices include: what actors are involved; how authority is distributed; and what information is generated and shared.…”

Section: Policy Experiments "Ideal Types" Typologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Stimulating Learning through Policy Experimentation: A Multi-Case Analysis of How Design Influences Policy Learning Outcomes in Experiments for Climate Adaptation

McFadgen

Huitema

2017

Water

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Abstract:Learning from policy experimentation is a promising way to approach the "wicked problem" of climate adaptation, which is characterised by knowledge gaps and contested understandings of future risk. However, although the role of learning in shaping public policy is well understood, and experiments are expected to facilitate learning, little is known about how experiments produce learning, what types of learning, and how they can be designed to enhance learning effects. Using quantitative research methods, we explore how design choices influence the learning experiences of 173 participants in 18 policy experiments conducted in the Netherlands between 1997 and 2016. The experiments are divided into three "ideal types" that are expected to produce different levels and types of learning. The findings show that policy experiments produce cognitive and relational learning effects, but less normative learning, and experiment design influenced three of six measured dimensions of learning, especially the cognitive learning dimensions. This reveals a trade-off between designing for knowledge development and designing for normative or relational changes; choices that experiment designers should make in the context of their adaptation problem. Our findings also show the role leadership plays in building trust.

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“…. into a unified analytical construct") [43]. Therefore, a case would never be expected to wholly meet a type and occasionally a case might fall between two types.…”

Section: Limits To the Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Policy Experiments "Ideal Types" Typologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Stimulating Learning through Policy Experimentation: A Multi-Case Analysis of How Design Influences Policy Learning Outcomes in Experiments for Climate Adaptation

McFadgen

Huitema

2017

Water

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“…Common to the literature summarized above is its focus on religious ethic: theological convictions influenced the way the early Anabaptist structured their economic activity. This explanatory approach is very much in line with Max Weber's writings on the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism (Marshall 1982;Weber [1958] 2003). Weber argued that values-such as a hard work ethic, thrift, and strategic accumulation of capital in Protestant denominations, Calvinism in particular-transformed the Northern European economy, leading to modern capitalism.…”

Section: The Old Paradigm: Religious Ethic and Economic Developmentmentioning

confidence: 52%

Explaining Anabaptist Persistence in the Market Economy: Past Paradigms and New Institutional Economics Theory

Lutz¹

2017

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

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Amish and plain Anabaptist economic research has focused either on the religious ethic in the tradition of Weber-religious convictions drive economic behavior-or the ethnic resources model-resources are mobilized to entrepreneurship. Both approaches (1) neglect the greater market context within which the plain Anabaptists have been embedded since the Early Modern Period, and (2) focus primarily on either early Anabaptism or the late 1900s. This article presents New Institutional Economics Theory as an alternative paradigm which understands people's economic behavior by the institutional contexts they are in. It looks at the World War II economy in the United States when many Anabaptist COs applied to be deferred to farm work by arguing that such work is of national importance. It shows that the Amish were thoroughly involved in the modern economy in the 1940s, as Walter Kollmorgen suggests. The Amish also shifted their institutional rules (the Ordnung) in response to larger institutional changes (e.g. wartime America). New Institutional Theory can help scholars better understand how Amish engage in, are shaped by, and shape the larger market.

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“…In this debate Menger defended the stance of the later neoclassical orthodoxy as the right method of economic theorizing. Soon afterwards Max Weber (1949) individualistic methodological grounds, the point of the Lucas-critique is to underline the ability of macro-economies to change and adapt to economic policy. An endless process of change may make the search for timeless economic laws unreasonable, of course.…”

Section: The Institutional Strategy: the Methodology Of Understandingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Methodology…?! Why? Some methodological aspects of the controversy between mainstream economics and institutionalism

Galbács¹

2017

EBR

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: Mainstream economics has been running the gauntlet of adverse criticism for decades. These critiques claim as a message of central importance that mainstream economics has lost its relevance for understanding reality. By making a brief comparison between the methodological strategies of the main stream and institutional economics I suggest that the firm demarcation between the streams stems from the difference between their methodologies. Its peculiar interest directed mainstream economics to take a unique methodological path and consequently the adherents have not been able to be on the lookout for certain facets of socio-economic reality. However, the chosen path, the axiomatic-deductive strategy proved to be an appropriate method for identifying economic laws. This claim is justified even by some recent efforts of new institutional economics. In order to support the conversation between the schools I highlight some causes that currently make it impossible to start a rational discourse.

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Methodology of Social Sciences

Cited by 662 publications

References 5 publications

Stimulating Learning through Policy Experimentation: A Multi-Case Analysis of How Design Influences Policy Learning Outcomes in Experiments for Climate Adaptation

Stimulating Learning through Policy Experimentation: A Multi-Case Analysis of How Design Influences Policy Learning Outcomes in Experiments for Climate Adaptation

Explaining Anabaptist Persistence in the Market Economy: Past Paradigms and New Institutional Economics Theory

Methodology…?! Why? Some methodological aspects of the controversy between mainstream economics and institutionalism

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