Twelve. Historicizing the New Institutionalism(s)

Adcock, Robert; Bevir, Mark; Stimson, Shannon C.

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“…are so awful’ (Bulpitt 1988: 188). This is significant because it fits closely with the historical institutionalist claim – in contrast to rational choice institutionalism – that the motives and actions of actors are dependent on a particular institutional setting (Adcock et al 2007: 280). In contrast, rational choice theory takes preferences and motives as external and fixed.…”

Section: Statecraft As Historical Institutionalismmentioning

confidence: 54%

“…The central assumptions of historical institutionalism, 2 writes Elizabeth Sanders (2006: 39), are that: ‘human political interactions should be studied (a) in the context of rule structures that are themselves human creations; and (b) sequentially, as life is lived, rather than to take a snapshot of those interactions at only one point in time, and in isolation from the rule structures (institutions) in which they occur’. Historical institutionalists distinguish themselves from rational choice institutionalists by emphasizing how the motives and actions of actors depend on the social-historical institutional setting (Adcock et al 2007: 280). They distinguished themselves from sociological institutionalists by having concerns about power at the forefront of the analysis.…”

Section: The Failures Of Historical Institutionalismmentioning

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Neo-Statecraft Theory, Historical Institutionalism and Institutional Change

James¹

2014

Gov. & oppos.

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This article provides a critical examination of the contribution that statecraft theory, which has been subject to recent revision and development, makes to the literature on institutional change. It articulates an emergent neo-statecraft approach that offers an agent-led form of historical institutionalism. This overcomes the common criticism that historical institutionalists underplay the creative role of actors. The article also argues that the approach brings back into focus the imperatives of electoral politics as a source of institutional change and provides a macro theory of change which is also commonly missing from historical institutionalist work. It can therefore identify previously unnoticed sources of stability and change, especially in states with strong executives and top-down political cultures.

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Section: Statecraft As Historical Institutionalismmentioning

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Section: The Failures Of Historical Institutionalismmentioning

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Neo-Statecraft Theory, Historical Institutionalism and Institutional Change

James¹

2014

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“…The details of genetic calculations were the same as in our previous study. GAUL [40] library was used for performing EA calculations. It was coupled with the CSA package developed in our group.…”

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Stachowicz

Korchowiec

2012

Struct Chem

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“…While the old institutionalism focuses on formal institutions and their interaction in political systems, the new institutionalism adopts a different understanding of ‘institutions’ and features an alternative research agenda. Whether or not the new institutionalism in its main variants is interpreted as a reaction to behaviourialism (Adcock et al, 2007; Hall and Taylor, 1996; March and Olsen, 1984), its exponents criticise ‘old institutionalism’ as ‘atheoretical’ (Steinmo et al, 1992: 2). Though the different new institutionalisms adopt quite different methodological approaches, they share what Rhodes (2011: 144) describes as a ‘modernist-empiricist epistemology’, where ‘institutions such as legislatures, constitutions, and civil services are treated as discrete objects that can be compared, measured, and classified’.…”

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The Study of National Preference Formation in Times of the Euro Crisis and Beyond

Kassim

Saurugger

Puetter³

2019

Political Studies Review

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The aim of its introduction is threefold: We start from a conceptual clarification of preference formation, defining it provisionally as a political process ‘by which social actors decide what they want and what to pursue’. After an analysis of different conceptual and theoretical approaches, the introduction offers a critique of liberal intergovernmentalism, one of the major explanatory frameworks of preference formation in European Union studies. This critique centres on the context in which national preference formation took place during the European Monetary Union crisis. This special issue argues that the conceptualisation of preference formation as state-based, unidirectional and unchanged by the regime is deeply problematic. Preference formation is typically messy and non-linear and rarely closed to the possibility that both preferences and positions may change, sometimes radically, it is even more complex, context-sensitive, and open to a wide range of influences in a multi-level system such as the European Union. In other words, the traditional understanding of preference formation as a purely domestic process of interest aggregation and competition require revision given the multiple factors that shape preferences in general and in the interdependent policy-making of the European Union in particular.

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Twelve. Historicizing the New Institutionalism(s)

Cited by 11 publications

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Neo-Statecraft Theory, Historical Institutionalism and Institutional Change

Neo-Statecraft Theory, Historical Institutionalism and Institutional Change

Generalized charge sensitivity analysis

The Study of National Preference Formation in Times of the Euro Crisis and Beyond

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