Abstract

SAAVEDRA ECHEVERRY, Saúl. Analysis of Institutional Development from the Historical Institutionalist Approach. Pap.polit. [online]. 2016, vol.21, n.1, pp.81-100. ISSN 0122-4409.  https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.papo21-1.adie.

In the study of the development of political institutions, scholars now working with the historical institutionalist approach are putting into their analytical frameworks concepts such as time, contexts, political coalitions and ideas. Their interest is to try to connect them in case studies intended to understand and explain stability and change in political life. The latter two dimensions are not conceived apart from institutional development, since the mechanisms that promote stability are the same that generate change. Inquiries inspired by the key ideas of historical institutionalism could be enriched by the contributions of discursive institutionalism, a new institutionalist research program that emphasizes the influence of ideas (discourse and communication) on institutional development. For discursive institutionalism institutions change by the impact of ideas, both for their substantive content and for the interactive process of discourse. Policy coordination, communication and deliberation that accompanies public activity have a discursive dimension.

Keywords : institutonal development; historical institutionalism; discursive institutionalism; institutional stability and change.

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