Explaining Institutional Change In Europe

Author : Adrienne Windhoff-Héritier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191711633
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Explaining Institutional Change in Europe written by Adrienne Windhoff-Héritier and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the change of five important institutional rules of decision-making in the European Union and proposes a general explanation of long-term institutional change which is also applicable for the change of decision-making rules beyond Europe.

Author : Adrienne Windhoff-He ́ritier
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9781435623699
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Explaining Institutional Change in Europe written by Adrienne Windhoff-He ́ritier and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the change of five important institutional rules of decision-making in the European Union and proposes a general explanation of long-term institutional change which is also applicable for the change of decision-making rules beyond Europe.

Author : Adrienne Heritier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199298122
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Explaining Institutional Change in Europe written by Adrienne Heritier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and why do institutions change? Institutions, understood as rules of behaviour constraining and facilitating social interaction, are subject to different forms and processes of change. A change may be designed intentionally on a large scale and then be followed by a period of only incremental adjustments to new conditions. But institutions may also emerge as informal rules, persist for a long time and only be formalized later. Why? The causes, processes and outcomes of institutional change raise a number of conceptual, theoretical and empirical questions. While we know a lot about the creation of institutions, relatively little research has been conducted about their transformation once they have been put into place. Attention has focused on politically salient events of change, such as the Intergovernmental Conferences of Treaty reform. In focussing on such grand events, we overlook inconspicuous changes of European institutional rules that are occurring on a daily basis. Thus, the European Parliament has gradually acquired a right of investing individual Commissioners. This has never been an issue in the negotiations of formal treaty revisions. Or, the decision-making rule(s) under which the European Parliament participates in the legislative process have drastically changed over the last decades starting from a modest consultation ending up with codecision. The book discusses various theories accounting for long-term institutional change and explores them on the basis of five important institutional rules in the European Union. It proposes typical sequences of long-term institutional change and their theorization which hold for other contexts as well, if the number of actors and their goals are clearly defined, and interaction takes place under the "shadow of the future" .

Author : James Mahoney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521118832
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Explaining Institutional Change written by James Mahoney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Adrienne Heritier
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191608882
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Explaining Institutional Change in Europe written by Adrienne Heritier and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and why do institutions change? Institutions, understood as rules of behaviour constraining and facilitating social interaction, are subject to different forms and processes of change. A change may be designed intentionally on a large scale and then be followed by a period of only incremental adjustments to new conditions. But institutions may also emerge as informal rules, persist for a long time and only be formalized later. Why? The causes, processes and outcomes of institutional change raise a number of conceptual, theoretical and empirical questions. While we know a lot about the creation of institutions, relatively little research has been conducted about their transformation once they have been put into place. Attention has focused on politically salient events of change, such as the Intergovernmental Conferences of Treaty reform. In focussing on such grand events, we overlook inconspicuous changes of European institutional rules that are occurring on a daily basis. Thus, the European Parliament has gradually acquired a right of investing individual Commissioners. This has never been an issue in the negotiations of formal treaty revisions. Or, the decision-making rule(s) under which the European Parliament participates in the legislative process have drastically changed over the last decades starting from a modest consultation ending up with codecision. The book discusses various theories accounting for long-term institutional change and explores them on the basis of five important institutional rules in the European Union. It proposes typical sequences of long-term institutional change and their theorization which hold for other contexts as well, if the number of actors and their goals are clearly defined, and interaction takes place under the "shadow of the future" .

Author : Sophie Meunier
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199218676
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Making History written by Sophie Meunier and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume, all leading specialists in the field of EU studies, examine the trajectory of the EU and draw on the theoretical tools of historical institutionalism to assess the central political challenges facing the EU.

Author : Michael Zürn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198779623
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Historical Institutionalism and International Relations written by Michael Zürn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume applies Historical Institutionalism to the field of International Relations, and explores why it is particularly well-suited for understanding current developments within international institutions.

Author : Jeffrey Stacey
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191576964
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Integrating Europe written by Jeffrey Stacey and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Integrating Europe: Informal Politics and Institutional Change the author explains why the European Union (EU) member states actively surrender policy-making power to supranational authorities in unconventional ways. In light of the general antipathy toward giving up national sovereignty in European societies—even where "pro-European" sentiment thrives, why do national governments allow the creation of any new EU laws or policies whose effects they cannot keep under their general control? Why do EU member states allow any sovereignty transfer to occur outside of inter-governmental treaties, which are the only legitimate EU bargains found in the EU's formal sphere? Deploying the tools of rational choice institutionalist theory, the author argues that informal bargains struck between the EU's primary organizational actors - the European Council, European Commission, and European Parliament - have paradoxically resulted in increased integration. As the EU is an ideal laboratory for testing different institutionalist hypotheses for explaining institutional change, the author focuses on the ongoing competition to alter the EU rules that allocate power, and, with an approach that allows for feedback loops among agents and structures, makes an argument that flies in the face of realist and intergovernmentalist theories. While some have shed light on the importance of informal dynamics in the legal sphere of the EU, this book does the same for the policy-making sphere.

Author : Douglass C. North
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521397346
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance written by Douglass C. North and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Pauline Jones Luong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139432281
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia written by Pauline Jones Luong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-29 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.