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Breaking the Path of Institutional Development? Alternatives to the New Determinism

Crouch, Colin, Farrell, Henry·2004·Rationality and Society
DOI 10.1177/1043463104039874
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The concept of path dependence is being used in highly deterministic ways in neo-institutionalist analysis, so that studies using this framework have dif.culty in accounting for, or predicting, change. However, the original Polya urn model from which pathdependence theory draws predicts that alternative paths will be possible. It can then be argued that actors will be able to use these when they perceive a need to change. This article seeks to capture this possibility through accommodating a Bayesian parametric decision-maker interacting with an environment. This makes it possible to examine how change may involve such processes as: the use of past or redundant institutional repertoires; transfer of experience across action spaces; or from other agents, through networks of structured relationships; the emergence of perceived ‘one best’ solutions. This approach points to the need to change how typologies are used in neo-institutionalist research, so that those features of cases that do not .t the pre-conceived framework of a type are not disregarded as ‘noise’, but properly evaluated as potential resources for change.

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Authors
Crouch, C., & Farrell, H.
Venue
Rationality and Society
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2004-02
Volume
16
Issue
1
Pages
5-43
ISSN
  • 1043-4631 (ISSN-L)
  • 1461-7358
DOI
10.1177/1043463104039874
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375
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Type
journal article
Language
en
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