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What are the characteristics and problems of Indonesia's democratisation? First, it is argued here, the current elite-focused approaches are insufficient. Second, the problems of attempts at popular politics of democratisation are examined. The major current problem is the lack of democratic institutions and of the chances and the capacity for people to develop and make use of them. (DSE/DÜI)

Influential theories claim that institutions shape actor behavior but are sustained by these actors' behavior. How do scholars escape from this trap of endogeneity? This article highlights a partially exogenous factor: institutional models and blueprints. Since these ideational schemes do not emerge from actor preferences, they play an independent, irreducible role in institutional creation. In fact, Latin America has borrowed many blueprints from the "First World." But transferred to a different setting, these imported models often fail to command firm, reliable compliance and do not operate well. Therefore, informal mechanisms arise and guide behavior. External borrowing thus produces persistent disjunctures in institutional development. (JPLA)

Irritierende OrdnungenWas ist – verglichen mit soziologischen Großtheorien, System- und Modellentwürfen, Sozialstrukturanalysen, Institutionenlehre, politischer Soziologie, schwergewichtiger Problembewältigungswissenschaft also – »Lebensweltliche Ethnographie«? Wo lässt sich im Umkreis soziologisch ›essentieller und relevanter‹ Tätigkeitsfelder eine »Ethnographin kleiner Lebenswelten« – Anne Honer über sich – verorten? Was überhaupt ist, gemessen an der Gesellschaft und ihren vielen sozialen Welten, eine »kleine Lebenswelt«?