Cultural Theory and the New Institutionalism

Bibliographic Data

ID6299703
AuthorsGunnar Grendstad (0000-0002-2914-8856), Per Selle (0000-0003-0070-7578)
Year1995
Volume7
Issue1
Pages5-27
Publication date1995-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Theoretical Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0951-6298 • E-ISSN: 1460-3667
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0951692895007001001
OpenAlexW2061949446
LanguageEN
Citations received28
References cited29

In addressing concepts like rationality, functionalism and preference formation, various branches of the new institutionalism are `united by little but a common scepticism towards atomistic accounts of social processes and a common conviction that institutional arrangements and social processes matter'. Great bulks of neoinstitutional thinking are also found within cultural theory which as yet have hardly been acknowledged by the neoinstitutionalists. Although these discrete theories to some extent use similar concepts differently, some applications of these concepts by cultural theory seem so similar to mainstream neoinstitutionalism that we may grant cultural theory the initial status of being an institutional theory. Cultural theory partly pre-empts the criticism raised by the new institutionalists by pinning down endogenous preference formation and by contextually repatriating concepts like functionalism and rationality. Moreover, cultural theory's typological approach can be assessed as a very promising version of the new institutionalism

Conflict theories · Criticism · Culture theory · Economics · Epistemology · Functionalism (philosophy of mind · Institutional theory · Institutionalism · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Rationality · Skepticism · Social science · Social theory · Sociology · Structural functionalism · Economic Theory and Institutions · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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