Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Epigraph
- Chapter 1 On political judgement
- Chapter 2 The need for richer explanation
- Chapter 3 A Durkheimian theoretical framework
- Chapter 4 October 1962, before and after
- Chapter 5 The Khrushchev régime
- Chapter 6 The Kennedy administration
- Chapter 7 The Castro revolutionary régime
- Chapter 8 Implications
- Chapter 9 Coda
- Notes
- References
- Index
Chapter 3 - A Durkheimian theoretical framework
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Epigraph
- Chapter 1 On political judgement
- Chapter 2 The need for richer explanation
- Chapter 3 A Durkheimian theoretical framework
- Chapter 4 October 1962, before and after
- Chapter 5 The Khrushchev régime
- Chapter 6 The Kennedy administration
- Chapter 7 The Castro revolutionary régime
- Chapter 8 Implications
- Chapter 9 Coda
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
Forms of institutional explanation
This chapter presents a distinctive institutional theory, the explanatory power of which will be explored in later chapters. It contrasts significantly with other traditions' understandings of what institutions are and how they explain thought style, preferences or action.
It has become conventional to distinguish between three varieties of institutionalism, namely,
rational choice institutionalism (which in turn is divided into actor-centred traditions – Scharpf, 1997 – and transaction cost traditions – North, 1990; Williamson, 1985);
historical institutionalism (Katznelson and Weingast, 2005a; Steinmo et al., 1992); and
sociological institutionalism (Powell and DiMaggio, 1991).
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- Explaining Political Judgement , pp. 53 - 114Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011