Institutionalism

B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of American Government at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written extensively in the areas of public administration and public policy, both for the United States and comparatively. Among his recent publications are the Handbook of Public Administration and The Quest for Control: Politicization of the Public Service. I am a research professor in the department of political science, University of Gothenburg. I am also adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh and at the Nordland University in Bodö, Norway. I have held numerous overseas visiting appointments, most recently at the City University of Hong Kong, University of Melbourne and University of Auckland.

PART ONE: INSTITUTIONALISMS, OLD AND NEW
Institutionalism ′Old′ and ′New′ - Philip Selznick
Institutionalism Reconsidered - David E Apter
Political Structure Revived - David Easton
Understanding Radical Organizational Change - Royston Greenwood and C R Hinings
Bringing Together the Old and the New Institutionalism
PART TWO: THE REVIVAL OF INSTITUTIONALISM
The New Institutionalism - James G March and Johan P Olsen
Organizational Factors in Political Life
Theoretical Decay and Theoretical Development - Karen L Remmer
The Resurgence of Institutional Analysis
The Theoretical Core of the New Institutionalism - Ellen Immergut
PART THREE: APPROACHES TO INSTITUTIONALISM
A. General Treatments
Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms - Peter A Hall and Rosemary C R Taylor
Institutional Theories and Public Institutions - J-C Thoenig
Traditions and Appropriateness
Institutions and Rationality in Politics - J Kato
Three Varieties of Neo-Institutionalists
What Is an Institution? - John R Searle
B. Normative Analysis
Institutional Perspectives on Political Institutions - James G March and Johan P Olsen
Institutions and Their Design - Robert E Goodin
The Ambiguity of Appropriateness - Tom Christensen and Kjell Arne Rovik
C. Rational Choice
Implications from the Disequilibrium of Majority Rule for the Study of Institutions - William H Riker
Political Institutions - Terry Moe
The Neglected Side of the Story
An Agenda for the Study of Institutions - Elinor Ostrom
D. Historical
Approaches to the State - Stephen Krasner
Alternative Conceptions and Historical Dynamics
Increasing Returns, Path Dependence and the Study of Politics - Paul Pierson
The Politics of Path Dependency - B Guy Peters, Jon Pierre and Desmond S King
Conflict in Historical Institutionalism
E. Empirical
Institutions, Veto Points and Policy Results - Ellen Immergut
A Comparative Analysis of Health Care
Assessing the Effects of Institutions - R Kent Weaver and Bert A Rockman
Democracies - Arend Lijphart
Forms, Performance and Constitutional Engineering
Institutions and Environmental Performance in Seventeen Western Democracies - Lyle A Scruggs
F. Sociological
Institutionalizing Organizations - John W Meyer and Brian Rowan
Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony
Prolegomena to a Theory of Social Institutions - Talcott Parsons
Commentary - James S Coleman
Social Institutions and Social Theory
The Iron Cage Revisited - Paul J Dimaggio and Walter Powell
Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields
Economic Institutions as Social Constructions - Mark Granovetter
A Framework for Analysis
Path Dependence in Historical Sociology - James Mahoney
G. Economics
Shared Mental Models - Arthur T Denzau and Douglas C North
Ideologies and Institutions
Bounded Rationality, Institutions and Uncertainty - David Dequech
On the Evolutionary Character of North′s Idea of Institutional Change - Michael Zouboulakis
PART FOUR: APPLICATIONS OF INSTITUTIONALISM
A. Legislatures
The Institutionalization of the US House of Representatives - Nelson W Polsby
Legislative Institutionalization - David Judge
A Bent Analytical Arrow?
The Power of the European Parliament as a Conditional Agenda Setter - George Tsebelis
B. Political Executives
The Institutionalization of the American Presidency, 1924-92 - Lyn Ragsdale and John J Theis
Governmentalizing Central Executives in Post-Communist Europe - Klaus H Goetz and Hellmut Wollmann
A Four-Country Comparison
C. Bureaucracy
How Bureaucratic Structure Matters - Morten Egeberg
An Organizational Perspective
Modeling Operational Decision-Making in Public Organizations - Tanya Heikkila and Kimberley R Isett
An Integration of Two Institutional Theories
D. Courts
A Political Regimes Approach to the Analysis of Legal Decisions - Cornell W Clayton and David A May
E. Parties and Interest Groups
Institutionalization - Angelo Panebianco
A ′New Institutional′ Perspective on Policy Networks - Jens Blom-Hansen
F. Democratization
Disequilibrium Institutions and Pluralist Democracy - Josep M Colomer
Institutions, Path Dependence and Democratic Consolidation - Gerard Alexander
G. Federalism
The Joint Decision Trap - Fritz Scharpf
Lessons from German Federalism and European Integration
H. International Relations
The Anatomy of Autonomy - Jonas Tallberg
An Institutional Account of Variation in Supranational Influence
New Institutionalism and the Governance of the Single Market - Simon Bulmer
Taking Institutions Seriously - John Vogler
How Regime Analysis Is Relevant to Multilevel Environmental Governance
Norms, Culture and World Politics - Martha Finnemore
Insights from Sociology′s Institutionalism
I. Public Policy
Do Institutions Really Matter? Taxation in Industrial Democracies - Sven Steinmo and Caroline J Tolbert
How Fragmentation Can Improve Co-Ordination - Philipp Genschel
Setting Standards in International Telecommunications
Altered States - Andrew P Cortell and Susan Peterson
Explaining Domestic Institutional Change
PART FIVE: THEORETICAL PROBLEMS
A. Creating Institutions
Institutional Design in Democratic Contexts - Johan P Olsen
The Limits of Design - Paul Pierson
Explaining Institution Origins and Change
B. Institutionalization and Deinstitutionalization
Bureaucracy, Bureaucratization and Debureaucratization - S N Eisenstadt
Political Development and Political Decay - Samuel P Huntington
The Antecedents of Deinstitutionalization - Christine Oliver
C. Institutional Change
Politics and Institutionalism - Elisabeth S Clemens and James M Cook
Explaining Durability and Change
′Seek and Ye Shall Find!′ - Christoph Knill and Andrea Lenschow
Linking Different Perspectives on Institutional Change
Ideas, Institutions and Political Order - Robert C Lieberman
Explaining Political Change
Institutional Stability and Change - Johannes Lindner
Two Sides of the Same Coin
D. Organizations and Institutions
Organizations versus Institutions - E L Khalil
The Adolescence of Institutional Theory - W Richard Scott
Institutional Theories of Organizations - Lynne G Zucker
PART SIX: INSTITUTIONALISM AS METHODOLOGY
Institutionalism as Methodology - Daniel Diermeier and Keith Krehbiel
Studying Institutions - Kenneth A Shepsle
Some Lessons from the Rational Choice Approach
PART SEVEN: CRITIQUES OF INSTITUTIONALISM
Nine Questions to a Neo-Institutional Theory in Political Science - Ove K Pedersen
Cultural Theory and the New Institutionalism - Gunnar Grendstad and Per Selle
The Compatibility of Behaviouralism, Rational Choice and ′New Institutionalism′ - Keith Dowding
Roles, Rules and Rationality in the New Institutionalism - Donald D Searing
Appropriateness and Consequences - Kjell Goldmann
The Logic of Neo-Institutionalism
Structure, Agency and Historical Institutionalism - Colin Hay and Daniel Wincott
PART EIGHT: CONCLUSION