Title: Ideologies, Institutions, and the New Institutionalism
Abstract: Within the last decades new institutionalisms have been developed in political science, sociology, and economics. The variety of analyses is large: In political science institutionalism a rational approach, a historical and a sociological can be distinguished. Sociology itself has developed a new institutionalism which is similar to the political sociological approach. Finally, New Institutional Economics has become a growing part of economic theory and empirical research. All these approaches have a strong focus on institutions, their logic, their origin, and change in common. However, a common definition of institutions is missing in all of approaches. The discussion in the new institutionalisms becomes even more complex, when the phenomenon 'ideology' is introduced into their analyses. The challenge then is twofold: Ideologies and institutions must be clearly distinguished if both should play a role in theory, and both have to be put to empirical testing, to prove their power in explaining real-world phenomena. Although the new institutionalism in social science are no longer new, there still has to be done a lot of work, especially to understand the logic, origin, and change of ideologies and their impact on the performance of political and economic systems and organizations.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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