Some of the most fruitful insights generated by social science in recent decades flow from
explorations of how institutions, understood as sets of regularized practices with a rule-like …

▪ Abstract This article provides an overview of recent developments in historical
institutionalism. First, it reviews some distinctions that are commonly drawn between the …

This article studies the context where a new attention to institutional analysis emerged in the
social sciences during the 1970s. It also examines the distinctions between historical …

This chapter traces developments in historical institutionalist approaches to institutional
change. Originally, historical (like rational choice and sociological) institutionalism focused …

This paper asks (a) why and how institutions change,(b) how an institution persists in a
changing environment, and (c) how processes that it unleashes lead to its own demise. The …

A renewed focus on institutions in a number of fields of social science has given rise to a
variety two contrasing apporaches under the common label of the 'new institutionalism'. This …

This article compares a variety of theoretical approaches to conceptualizing institutional
change. Our goal is neither to discover the 'best'theory, nor to attempt to build a new one …

A multitude of institutionalist approaches are flourishing in the social sciences. Many
attempts have been made to survey the field, but most stay within the boundaries of each …

This paper surveys alternative approaches to the emergence and evolution of institutions.
The challenge is to develop frameworks capable of capturing both stability and change. We …

Most social scientists agree with the statement that institutions matter. However, they
disagree over the extent to which they matter. This review focuses on the fundamental …