Empirical Studies In Institutional Change

Author : Lee J. Alston,Þráinn Eggertsson,Douglass C. North
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521557437

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Empirical Studies in Institutional Change by Lee J. Alston,Þráinn Eggertsson,Douglass C. North Pdf

Empirical Studies in Institutional Change is a collection of nine empirical studies by fourteen scholars. Dealing with issues ranging from the evolution of secure markets in seventeenth-century England to the origins of property rights in airport slots in modern America, the contributors analyse institutions and institutional change in various parts of the world and at various periods of time. The volume is a contribution to the new economics of institutions, which emphasises the role of transaction costs and property rights in shaping incentives and results in the economic arena. To make the papers accessible to a wide audience, including students of economics and other social sciences, the editors have written an introduction to each study and added three theoretical essays to the volume, including Douglass North's Nobel Prize address, which reflect their collective views as to the present status of institutional analysis and where it is headed.

Author : Caner Bakir,Darryl S. L. Jarvis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319703503

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Institutional Entrepreneurship and Policy Change by Caner Bakir,Darryl S. L. Jarvis Pdf

This book is about the role of agents in policy and institutional change. It draws on cross-country case studies. The focus on ‘agency’ has been an important development, enabling researchers to better reveal the causal mechanisms generating institutional change (i.e., how institutional change actually takes place). However, past research has generally been limited to specific intellectual silos or scholarly domains of inquiry. Policy scholars, for example, have tended to focus on the various mechanisms and levels at which agency operates, drawing on institutionalist perspectives but not always actively contributing to institutionalist theory. Institutionalist perspectives, by contrast, have tended to operate at macro-levels of enquiry, embracing the ontological primacy of institutions in processes of isomorphism but not necessarily contributing to or embracing policy perspectives that engage in more granular analyses of policy making processes, implementation, and the instantiation of institutional and policy change. Despite the obvious complementarities of these two intellectual traditions, it is surprising how little collaborative work, or indeed cross fertilization of theory and analytical design has occurred. The core novelty of this volume is thus its focus on agential actors within institutional settings and processes of entrepreneurship that facilitate isomorphism and policy change. The book’s theoretical framework is grounded in variants of institutional theory, especially historical, sociological and organisational institutionalism and policy entrepreneurship literature. The overall conclusion is that that both institutionalists and public policy scholars have largely overlooked the importance of complex interactions between interdependent structures, institutions, and agents in processes of institutional and policy change.

Author : Sven-Erik Sjostrand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315486246

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Institutional Change: Theory and Empirical Findings by Sven-Erik Sjostrand Pdf

This book brings together some 15 papers drawn from the 330 papers presented at the Third Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics in Stockholm, Sweden in June 1991. Part 1 outlines a basic theory of institutional change; Parts 2 and 3 examine case studies in international experience with institutional change. The authors of the original papers include Douglas North, Amitai Etzioni, Oliver Williamson, as well as eminent scholars from Eastern and Western Europe, representing views and analyses from ten different countries.

Author : Douglass C. North
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1990-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521397340

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Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance by Douglass C. North Pdf

An analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies is developed in this analysis of economic structures.

Author : James Mahoney,Kathleen Thelen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521118835

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Explaining Institutional Change by James Mahoney,Kathleen Thelen Pdf

The essays in this book contribute to emerging debates in political science and sociology on institutional change, providing a theoretical framework and empirical applications.

Author : Gerald A. McDermott
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472068032

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Embedded Politics by Gerald A. McDermott Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Economic conversion
ISBN : OCLC:1150037978

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Institutional Change by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Mahoney,Kathleen Ann Thelen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Institutional economics
ISBN : OCLC:656806007

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Explaining Institutional Change by James Mahoney,Kathleen Ann Thelen Pdf

This title contributes to emerging debates in political science and sociology on institutional change. The introductory essay proposes a new framework for analyzing incremental change, and subsequent chapters provide empirical case studies from the United States, Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

Author : Thráinn Eggertsson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472023547

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Imperfect Institutions by Thráinn Eggertsson Pdf

The emergence of New Institutional Economics toward the end of the twentieth century profoundly changed our ideas about the organization of economic systems and their social and political foundations. Imperfect Institutions explores recent developments in this field and pushes the discussion forward by allowing for incomplete knowledge of social systems and unexpected system dynamics and, above all, by focusing explicitly on institutional policy. Empirical studies extending from Africa to Iceland are cited in support of the theoretical argument. In Imperfect Institutions Thráinn Eggertsson extends his attempt to integrate and develop the new field that began with his acclaimed Economic Behavior and Institutions (1990), which has been translated into six languages. This latest work analyzes why institutions that create relative economic backwardness emerge and persist and considers the possibilities and limits of institutional reform. Thráinn Eggertsson is Professor of Economics at the University of Iceland and Global Distinguished Professor of Politics at New York University. Previously published works include Economic Behavior and Institutions (1990) and Empirical Studies in Institutional Change with Lee Alston and Douglass North (1996).

Author : Josip Lučev
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030660536

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Systemic Cycle and Institutional Change by Josip Lučev Pdf

This book explores endogenous institutional change and the global, cyclical, and power-based drivers that underpin it. A metatheoretical framework is presented to highlight the influence of path dependence, systemic cycle driven power relations, and institutional design on the development of labor institutions. The framework is applied to the USA, Germany, and China to provide a comparative economic perspective. Systemic Cycle and Institutional Change: Labor Markets in the USA, Germany and China aims to examine endogenous institutional change through analyzing the systemic cycle and bringing together global and national conceptions of capitalism. It is relevant to students and researchers interested in comparative economics, political economy, and labor economics.

Author : Wolfgang Streeck
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191614453

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Re-Forming Capitalism by Wolfgang Streeck Pdf

Wolfgang Streeck has written extensively on comparative political economy and institutional theory. In this book he addresses some of the key issues in this field: the role of history in institutional analysis, the dynamics of slow institutional change, the limitations of rational design and economic-functionalist explanations of institutional stability, and the recurrent difficulties of restraining the effects of capitalism on social order. In the classification of the 'Varieties of Capitalism' school, Germany has always been taken as the chief exemplar of a 'European', coordinated market economy. Streeck explores to what extent Germany actually conforms to this description. His argument is supported by original empirical research on wage-setting and wage structure, the organization of business and labor in business associations and trade unions, social policy, public finance, and corporate governance. From this evidence, Bringing Capitalism Back In traces the current liberalization of the postwar economy of democratic capitalism by means of an historically-grounded approach to institutional change. This is an important book in comparative political economy and key reading across the social sciences for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Political Economy, Sociology, comparative business systems.

Author : Pauline Jones Luong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139432283

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Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia by Pauline Jones Luong Pdf

The establishment of electoral systems in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan presents both a complex set of empirical puzzles and a theoretical challenge. Why did three states with similar cultural, historical, and structural legacies establish such different electoral systems? How did these distinct outcomes result from strikingly similar institutional design processes? Explaining these puzzles requires understanding not only the outcome of institutional design but also the intricacies of the process that led to this outcome. Moreover, the transitional context in which these three states designed new electoral rules necessitates an approach that explicitly links process and outcome in a dynamic setting. This book provides such an approach. Finally, it both builds on the key insights of the dominant approaches to explaining institutional origin and change and transcends these approaches by moving beyond the structure versus agency debate.

Author : Douglass C. North
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139642965

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Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance by Douglass C. North Pdf

Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time. Institutions exist, he argues, due to the uncertainties involved in human interaction; they are the constraints devised to structure that interaction. Yet, institutions vary widely in their consequences for economic performance; some economies develop institutions that produce growth and development, while others develop institutions that produce stagnation. North first explores the nature of institutions and explains the role of transaction and production costs in their development. The second part of the book deals with institutional change. Institutions create the incentive structure in an economy, and organisations will be created to take advantage of the opportunities provided within a given institutional framework. North argues that the kinds of skills and knowledge fostered by the structure of an economy will shape the direction of change and gradually alter the institutional framework. He then explains how institutional development may lead to a path-dependent pattern of development. In the final part of the book, North explains the implications of this analysis for economic theory and economic history. He indicates how institutional analysis must be incorporated into neo-classical theory and explores the potential for the construction of a dynamic theory of long-term economic change. Douglass C. North is Director of the Center of Political Economy and Professor of Economics and History at Washington University in St. Louis. He is a past president of the Economic History Association and Western Economics Association and a Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written over sixty articles for a variety of journals and is the author of The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History (CUP, 1973, with R.P. Thomas) and Structure and Change in Economic History (Norton, 1981). Professor North is included in Great Economists Since Keynes edited by M. Blaug (CUP, 1988 paperback ed.)

Author : Phillip Y. Lipscy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107149762

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Renegotiating the World Order by Phillip Y. Lipscy Pdf

Phillip Y. Lipscy explains how countries renegotiate international institutions when rising powers such as Japan and China challenge the existing order. This book is particularly relevant for those interested in topics such as international organizations, such as United Nations, IMF, and World Bank, political economy, international security, US diplomacy, Chinese diplomacy, and Japanese diplomacy.

Author : Magnus Blomström,Sumner La Croix
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134180561

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Institutional Change in Japan by Magnus Blomström,Sumner La Croix Pdf

This is a new analysis of recent changes in important Japanese institutions. It addresses the origin, development, and recent adaptation of core institutions, including financial institutions, corporate governance, lifetime employment, and the amakudari system. After four decades of rapid economic growth in Japan, the 1990s saw the country enter a prolonged period of economic stagnation. Policy reforms were initially half-hearted, and businesses were slow to restructure as the global economy changed. The lagging economy has been impervious to aggressive fiscal stimulus measures and has been plagued by ongoing price deflation for years. Japan’s struggle has called into question the ability of the country’s economic institutions, originally designed to support factor accumulation and rapid development, to adapt to the new economic environment of the twenty-first century. This book discusses both historical and international comparisons including Meiji Japan, and recent economic and financial reforms in Korea, Scandinavia, Switzerland, and New Zealand, placing the current institutional changes in perspective. The contributors argue that, contrary to conventional wisdom that Japanese institutions have remained relatively rigid, there has been significant institutional change over the last decade.