Institutions, Institutional Effects, and Institutionalism (1991)
Cambridge University Press eBooksPublished 22 March 2021
Ronald L. Jepperson
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Clarification of the ideas of institution, institutionalization, and institutionalism. Conceives of institutions as controlling patterns of widely varying sorts, relevant to the explanation of, and stabilization of, the behavior of the full range of modern actors.
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