作者:Boase, JP
摘要:This article uses the case of health insurance policy in the United States and Canada, to try to explain how particular state-societal patterns of intermediation unfold, become institutionalized and effect quite different policy strategies. It begins by outlining the importance of formal political and administrative institutional structure in the exercise of autonomous state action. It then examines the concepts of policy community and policy network as state-specific vehicles of interest inte...
作者:March, JG; Olsen, JP
作者单位:University of Oslo
摘要:This article examines some basic assumptions about the nature of politicaI institutions, the ways in which practices and rules that comprise institutions are established, sustained, and transformed, and the ways in which those practices and rules are converted into political behavior through the mediation of interpretation and capability. We discuss an institutional approach to political life that emphasizes the endogenous nature and social construction of political institutions, identities, a...