Explaining social institutions

Five propositions about institutional change / Douglass C. North -- Coordination, commitment, and enforcement : the case of the Merchant Guild / Avner Grief, Paul Milgrom, and Barry R. Weingast -- Rational actors, equilibrium, and social institutions / Randall L. Calvert -- Models, interpretations, and theories : constructing explanations of institutional emergence and change / Jack Knight -- The experience of creating institutions : the framing of the United States Constitution / William H. Riker -- Equal or proportional? Arguing and bargaining over the Senate at the Federal Convention / Jon Elster -- The emergence of individual rights / Itai Sened -- Democratic stability / Norman Schofield