Bending the Rules
Institutional Analysis, Political Change, and Labor Market Reform in Advanced Industrial Societies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6141007 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark I Vail (0000-0002-9688-049X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-39 |
| Publication date | 2009-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4159 • E-ISSN: 2151-6227 |
| Publisher | Comparative Politics CUNY (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5129/001041509x12911362972755 |
| OpenAlex | W2323184657 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
Since late 1970s, study of institutions has become central to scholarship on com parative politics and political economy. At that time, emergence of so-called new institutionalism marked a watershed in literature, establishing now-accepted insight that institutional configurations structure politics and policy trajectories in na tionally distinctive ways.1 This new agenda represented two important advances relative to existing approaches to study of politics. First, it provided correctives to be havioralist tradition, dominant during 1950s and 1960s, which viewed political phe nomena as the aggregate consequences of behavior comprehensible at individual or group level and tended to divorce politics from historical context.2 Second, it repre sented a significant advance over so-called old institutionalism, which generally viewed political life as governed by formal, constitutionally based distributions of authority. Beginning in 1970s, a number of innovative scholars began to depart from this static, approach, placing greater emphasis upon informal power rela tions and actors' responses to a distinct pattern of constraints and incentives repre sented by institutional universe in which they operate.3 By treating institutions as endogenous to political order, as complex components of a dynamic political universe, new institutionalists allowed greater analytical space for informal bargaining dynamics within institutional constellations. They saw in stitutions as formal rules, compliance procedures, and standard operating practices that structure relationship between individuals and various units of polity and economy, rather than as fixed manifestations of social and economic structures with mechanistic effects on politics.4 For scholars such as Stephen Skowronek, James March, Johan Olsen, and Kathleen Thelen, institutions were not mere manifestations of underlying social relationships or fossils of an original, remote social contract.5 Instead, they were complex, multilayered organizational frameworks that governed dy namics of politics and actors' responses to an enduring set of constraints and incentives. New institutionalists thus had effectively replaced sticks and strings of old in stitutionalist universe with a set of magnets, an array of forces that guided but did not control dynamics of political order
Bending · Economic system · Economics · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Structural engineering · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social Policy and Reform Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2018 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |