New Institutionalism Through a Gender Lens: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism?
University of Edinburgh · UNSW Sydney
Abstract
New institutionalism (NI) may no longer qualify as being ‘new’, but since re-emphasizing institutions as a central explanatory variable in political analysis over two decades ago, it continues to provide scholars with a useful perspective through which to analyse political dynamics and outcomes that shape everyday life. The renewed focus on institutions has rebalanced the structure/agency scales back toward the former without losing important insights about the role and impact of political actors. NI has allowed for greater understanding about the co-constitutive nature of politics: the various ways in which actors bring about or resist change in institutions; and the way institutions shape the nature of…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 8.79
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 86
Authors
3Topics & keywords
- Institutionalism
- New institutionalism
- Politics
- Agency (philosophy)
- Historical institutionalism
- Perspective (graphical)
- Sociology
- Institutional change
- Gender equality