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Explaining Institutional Change in Europe (Hardcover)
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Explaining Institutional Change in Europe (Hardcover)
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How and why do institutions change? Institutions, understood as
rules of behaviour constraining and facilitating social
interaction, are subject to different forms and processes of
change. A change may be designed intentionally on a large scale and
then be followed by a period of only incremental adjustments to new
conditions. But institutions may also emerge as informal rules,
persist for a long time and only be formalized later. Why? The
causes, processes and outcomes of institutional change raise a
number of conceptual, theoretical and empirical questions. While we
know a lot about the creation of institutions, relatively little
research has been conducted about their transformation once they
have been put into place. Attention has focused on politically
salient events of change, such as the Intergovernmental Conferences
of Treaty reform. In focussing on such grand events, we overlook
inconspicuous changes of European institutional rules that are
occurring on a daily basis. Thus, the European Parliament has
gradually acquired a right of investing individual Commissioners.
This has never been an issue in the negotiations of formal treaty
revisions. Or, the decision-making rule(s) under which the European
Parliament participates in the legislative process have drastically
changed over the last decades starting from a modest consultation
ending up with codecision. The book discusses various theories
accounting for long-term institutional change and explores them on
the basis of five important institutional rules in the European
Union. It proposes typical sequences of long-term institutional
change and their theorization which hold for other contexts as
well, if the number of actors and their goals are clearly defined,
and interaction takes place under the "shadow of the future" .
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