Institutional theories and public institutions: traditions and appropriateness

Thoenig, Jean-Claude

Thoenig, Jean-Claude (2003), Institutional theories and public institutions: traditions and appropriateness, in Pierre, Jon; Peters, Guy, Handbook of public administration, Sage Publications : Londres, p. 22

Type

Chapitre d'ouvrage

External document link

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00139954/fr/

Date

2003

Book title

Handbook of public administration

Book author

Pierre, Jon; Peters, Guy

Publisher

Sage Publications

Sage

Series title

Handbook of Public Administration

Published in

Londres

ISBN

0-7619-7224-2

Number of pages

640

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Author(s)

Thoenig, Jean-Claude

Abstract (EN)

Public institutions are organized configurations which are prone to institutionalization processes. They reflect as well as produce and diffuse valuues, norms, cognitions, meanings and identities about life and evolution of society, polity or economy. The text covers a set of theories which share a strong Verstehen perspective: historical institutionalism, sociological institutionalism, new institutionalism, and local order institutionalism. It presents their main hypotheses, their analytical methods, and most relevant findings. The empirical facets of such theories question the relevance or normative theories wich prescribe so-called rational or scientific solutions deducted from very abstracts axioms

Subjects / Keywords

Déterminisme; Ecoles institutionnelles; Ordre social; Normes; Path dependence; Institutionalism; New institutionalism

JEL

D73 - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption