... can begin to understand what the new institutionalism is and that we can only understand it through the context of three separate elements. The different institutionalisms, as described by the authors are historical institutionalism, rational choice institutionalism, and sociological institutionalism.1 It is thought that these institutionalisms were created in response to the mid-20th century shift in perspective of the ... towards it understand it as the sole way in which we can understand and approach political outcomes. Retrospectively, each school of thought has remained separate fr...

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