Explaining Change in Legislatures
Dilemmas of Managerial Reform in the UK House of Commons
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6345683 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexandra Meakin (0000-0002-1961-6169, Department of Politics, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, corresponding author), Marc Geddes (0000-0002-8040-7059, School of Social and Political Science, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 216-235 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3217 • E-ISSN: 1467-9248 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032321720955127 |
| OpenAlex | W3089142280 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 45 |
How do institutions adapt and reform themselves in response to new challenges? This article considers the role of ideas and posits that the concept of ‘dilemma’ – clashes of beliefs played out through power relations and practices – offers a complementary tool to understand institutional change. It draws on the 2014 appointment of a new Clerk to the UK House of Commons – in which conflicting beliefs about the House of Commons administration opened a dilemma for key parliamentary actors – as a token case study to highlight the value of the concepts of beliefs, practices and dilemmas. It further broadens out these findings to consider the value of a wider interpretive approach for understanding how institutions may adapt and change. In doing so, it makes (1) a theoretical contribution by exploring the role of ideas in causing institutional change and (2) an empirical contribution through its analysis of parliamentary administration, an understudied area
Administration (probate law · Commons · Dilemma · Epistemology · House of Commons · Institutional change · Law and economics · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public relations · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Political Analysis
Interpreting British Governance
Dissension in the House of Commons
The Logic of the History of Ideas
Translating Local Knowledge at Organizational Peripheries
The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions
Shaping the Political Arena
The State as Cultural Practice
Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies
Explaining Institutional Change
Dwellers on the threshold of practice
Interpretivism and the analysis of traditions and practices
From elite control to democratic competition
Why symbolic representation frames parliamentary public engagement
The Officers of the House of Commons
Parliament and Political Disengagement
Reforming parliament in the United Kingdom
New Institutionalist Explanations for Institutional Change
The Explanatory Potential of ‘Dilemmas
Structure, Agency and Power in Political Analysis
Re-gendering the UK House of Commons
Shifting the Balance? Parliament, the Executive and the British Constitution
Analysing Reform
A Life of Their Own’? Traditions, Power and ‘As If Realism’ in Political Analysis
The Institutional Representation of Parliament
Prospects for Parliamentary Reform
Never Allow A Crisis To Go To Waste
Speaking for Parliament
The Politics of Parliamentary Reform
Where were the massed ranks of parliamentary reformers?’ – ‘attitudinal’ and ‘contextual’ approaches to parliamentary reform
Taking ideas and discourse seriously
Interpreting Interpretivism Interpreting Interpretations
Discursive Institutionalism
Approaches to the State
Dissension in the House of Commons 1974-1979
Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |