New Institutionalism Through a Gender Lens: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism?
2010; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 31; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1177/0192512110388788
ISSN1460-373X
AutoresFiona Mackay, Meryl Kenny, Louise Chappell,
Tópico(s)Labor Movements and Unions
ResumoNew institutionalism (NI) may no longer qualify as being ‘new’, but since re-emphasizing institutions as a central explanatory variable in political analysis over two decades ago, it continues to provide scholars with a useful perspective through which to analyse political dynamics and outcomes that shape everyday life. The renewed focus on institutions has rebalanced the structure/agency scales back toward the former without losing important insights about the role and impact of political actors. NI has allowed for greater understanding about the co-constitutive nature of politics: the various ways in which actors bring about or resist change in institutions; and the way institutions shape the nature of actors’ behaviour through the construction of rules, norms and policies.
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