Since the early 2000s, theorizing on incremental institutional change has made inroads in
comparative historical analysis. In particular, the ideas, concepts, and theory introduced by …

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

Institutional theory plays a significant role in contemporary political science. As in the
previous editions, the new fourth edition provides an overview of the major institutional …

The new orthodoxy in studies of policy dynamics is that policy change occurs through a
homeostatic process.“Perturbations” occurring outside of an institutionalized policy …

A key theme among seminal contributions to policy studies, including Baumgartner and
Jones (1993; 2002), Sabatier and Jenkins‐Smith (1993), and Hall (1989; 1993), is that …

This paper argues that there is a powerful tendency in forecasting of socio-technical change
to focus on the causes and consequences of change at the cost of greater understanding of …

What are the specific on-the-ground requirements of policy (eg environmental protection,
economic development)(eg saving wilderness or species habitat, increasing harvesting …

The repercussions of European integration on national policymaking have increasingly
drawn scholarly attention, yet, the determinants of national adaptation to the European …

Susanne Schmidt and Raymund Werle present three case studies from the
telecommunications industry to highlight the actors, the process, the politics, and the …

In almost all subfields of political science in the last third of the twentieth century, it was
claimed that we are witnessing a transformation of political order from hierarchies to …