Description: Explaining Institutional Change in Europe Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): Adrienne Heritier Format: Hardback Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 9780199298129, 978-0199298129 Synopsis 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" .
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Book Title: Explaining Institutional Change in Europe
Number of Pages: 282 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Explaining Institutional Change in Europe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Year: 2007
Item Height: 240 mm
Item Weight: 573 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Adrienne Heritier
Subject Area: Country, Political Science
Item Width: 162 mm
Format: Hardcover
