Abstract

GONZALEZ-CHAVARRIA, Alexander. Multi-Agent Institutional Analysis: The Social Agency and Structuration Problem in the Explanation of the Emergence of Governance Structures. rev.estud.soc. [online]. 2014, n.49, pp.190-204. ISSN 0123-885X.

In this article, I undertake a theoretical study of the effects of introducing an updated perspective of structuration in governance models derived from the analytical framework of neo-institutionalism. My argument is that the way different authors have introduced the structural dimension in governance models derived from this framework, generally fails to take sufficient account of recent developments in the sociological debate on structuration and agency. To do so may lead to a multi-agent institutional analysis perspective, which permits us to question the development of governance structures aimed at the intersectorial regulation of social risks with the participation of state and non-state agents in a more suitable manner. This could improve the explanatory power of the neo-institutional framework by explicitly taking into account the problem of social agency in analyzing the emergence of said governance structures.

Keywords : Governance; multi-agent social systems; neo-institutionalism; social agency and structuration; social risks.

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