Explaining Institutional Change¶
Mahoney, J., & Thelen, K. (2010). Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency, and Power. Cambridge University Press.
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- Institutional Lag
- The pattern surfaces a recurring trade-off in institutional design: institutions that adapt quickly to every change lose stability and predictability (good for flexibility, bad for long-term planning and minority protection); institutions that resist change gain durability but risk sustained misalignment (bad for fast-moving domains), a tradeoff Mahoney and Thelen (2010) develop through their typology of incremental institutional change.
This sourceTypology of incremental institutional change (displacement, layering, drift, conversion) showing how formal institutions adapt slowly through partial mechanisms rather than wholesale replacement, characterizing the catch-up dynamics that resolve institutional lag.
- The pattern surfaces a recurring trade-off in institutional design: institutions that adapt quickly to every change lose stability and predictability (good for flexibility, bad for long-term planning and minority protection); institutions that resist change gain durability but risk sustained misalignment (bad for fast-moving domains), a tradeoff Mahoney and Thelen (2010) develop through their typology of incremental institutional change.
- Legacy Integration
- Periodization is an analytical operation: dividing a continuous historical process into labeled segments with boundary events, creating narrative structure from temporal continuity—an analytical move Mahoney and Thelen (2010) distinguish from the gradual-change mechanisms underlying institutional integration.
This sourceTypology of incremental institutional change (displacement, layering, drift, conversion) showing how formal institutions adapt slowly through partial mechanisms rather than wholesale replacement, characterizing the catch-up dynamics that resolve institutional lag.
- Periodization is an analytical operation: dividing a continuous historical process into labeled segments with boundary events, creating narrative structure from temporal continuity—an analytical move Mahoney and Thelen (2010) distinguish from the gradual-change mechanisms underlying institutional integration.
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