social science

Historical Institutionalism
a social sicence approach that emphasises timing, sequence and path dependence in its analysis of (the absence of) institutional change. Small events can have big impacts
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Notes on: Democracy Facing Global Challenges: V-Dem Annual Democracy Report 2019
The trend of autocratization continues
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Notes on: Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms (Hall & Taylor 1996)
An introductionary paper to the three main approaches to institutions in international relations
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Path Dependency
An important concept for understanding (the absence of) institutional change
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Rational Choice Institutionalism
International Organisations are incentive structures
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Sociological Institutionalism
Institutions as social structures composed of cultural-cognitive, normative, and regulative elements that provide stability and meaning to social life
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Structural Functionalism
Society as a complex (biological) system
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Turnkey Tyranny
What happens with all the surveillance infastructure if the government changes?
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