TY - JOUR
T1 - A short history of studying incremental institutional change: Does Explaining Institutional Change provide any new explanations?
AU - van der Heijden, Jeroen
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Kathleen Thelen is one of the leading scholars studying incremental institutional change. In her early works from the 1990s, she introduced the conceptualization of different modes of incremental change. These modes have central attention in her recent co-edited book with James Mahoney, Explaining Institutional Change (2010). Compared with Thelen's earlier work, this book provides clearer definitions, addresses the explanatory factors of institutional change, and discusses the patterns and sequences of gradual institutional change. The theory presented by Mahoney and Thelen, however, seems overambitious and subject to a need to be overly crisp and clear.
AB - Kathleen Thelen is one of the leading scholars studying incremental institutional change. In her early works from the 1990s, she introduced the conceptualization of different modes of incremental change. These modes have central attention in her recent co-edited book with James Mahoney, Explaining Institutional Change (2010). Compared with Thelen's earlier work, this book provides clearer definitions, addresses the explanatory factors of institutional change, and discusses the patterns and sequences of gradual institutional change. The theory presented by Mahoney and Thelen, however, seems overambitious and subject to a need to be overly crisp and clear.
U2 - 10.1111/j.1748-5991.2010.01075.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1748-5991.2010.01075.x
M3 - Article
VL - 4
SP - 230
EP - 243
JO - Regulation & Governance
JF - Regulation & Governance
IS - 2
ER -