This book discusses the change of five important institutional rules of decision-making in the European Union and proposes a general explanation of long-term institutional change which is also applicable for the change of decision-making rules beyond Europe.
This book discusses the change of five important institutional rules of decision-making in the European Union and proposes a general explanation of long-term institutional change which is also applicable for the change of decision-making rules beyond Europe
This book discusses the change of five important institutional rules of decision-making in the European Union and proposes a general explanation of long-term institutional change which is also applicable for the change of decision-making rules beyond Europe.
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 ofinstitutional change raise a number of conceptual, theoretical and empirical questions. While we know a lot about the creat
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