Appropriateness and consequences: The logic of neo-institutionalism

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Goldmann, K
• 署名单位: Stockholm University
• 刊物名称: GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY ADMINISTRATION AND INSTITUTIONS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0952-1895
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0491.2004.00265.x
• 发表日期: 2005
• 关键词: state

摘要

Skeptical questions may be raised about the neo-institutionalist approach of James G. March and Johan P. Olsen, in which a logic of expected consequences is set against a logic of appropriateness: (1) it is difficult to determine what kind of constructs the so-called logics are-whether they are to be seen as perspectives, theories, or ideal types; (2) the logics, far from being mutually excluding, overlap very considerably; (3) analytical utility is debatable not only in the case of the logic of expected consequences but also when it is a matter of the logic of appropriateness; (4) the normative virtue of substituting a logic of appropriateness for a logic of expected consequences is less obvious than March and Olsen's readers may be led to think. It is tempting to conclude that March and Olsen's approach has proven compelling because of its consequences for the scholarly community rather than by virtue of its analytical appropriateness.