▪ Abstract From the complex literatures on “institutionalisms” in political science and
sociology, various components of institutional change are identified: mutability …

Although new institutionalism has long been criticised for presenting overly static accounts
of social reality, that critique is becoming increasingly unwarranted. In recent years …

In this book, Douglass North offers a general theory of the process of economic change. His
perspective is, of course, the New Institutional Economics, and the book draws on a wide …

The literature on common property-based resource management comprises many important
studies that seek to specify the conditions under which groups of users will self-organize and …

Some of the most fruitful insights generated by social science in recent decades flow from
explorations of how institutions, understood as sets of regularized practices with a rule-like …

This exciting new book from Geoffrey Hodgson is eagerly awaited by social scientists from
many different backgrounds. This book charts the rise, fall and renewal of institutional …

This article compares a variety of theoretical approaches to conceptualizing institutional
change. Our goal is neither to discover the 'best'theory, nor to attempt to build a new one …

T his chapter focuses on the large body of empirical work on common property. Its objective
is delineate some of the most significant accomplishments of this literature, discuss some of …

Because of the redistributive nature of institutions and the availability of implementable
alternatives with different distributive consequences, the desire of federation members to …

There are increasing concerns about changes in society and the economy which are
undermining the effectiveness of democracy and weakening traditional conceptions of …