TY  - BOOK
AU  - edited by Jon Pierre, B. Guy Peters
TI  - Debating institutionalism
U1  - 320.01 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Political science--Philosophy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Institutionalism has become one of the dominant strands of theory within contemporary political science. Beginning with the challenge to behavioural and rational choice theory issued by March and Olsen, institutional analysis has developed into an important alternative to more individualistic approaches to theory and analysis. This body of theory has developed in a number of ways, and perhaps the most commonly applied version in political science is historical institutionalism that stresses the importance of path dependency in shaping institutional behaviour
ER  -