Advancing Post-Structural Institutionalism: Discourses, Subjects, Power Asymmetries, and Institutional Change

Sammanfattning

Colin Hay's and Vivien Schmidt's responses to my previous critical engagement with their respective versions of neo-institutionalism raise the issue of how scholars may account for the ideational power of political processes and how ideas may generate both stability and change. Even though Hay, Schmidt, and I share a common philosophical ground in many respects, we nevertheless diverge in our views about how to account for ideational power and for actors' ability to navigate a social reality that is saturated with structures and meaning. There continues to be a need for an analytical framework that incorporates discourse and a constitutive logic based upon the power in ideas. Post-structural institutionalism (PSI) analyzes discourse as knowledge claims by means of the concept of a constitutive causality, analytically identified in respect to institutions, such that the substantive content of ideas/discourse provides ideational power and generates immanent change.

Nyckelord

constructivist institutionalism; discourses; discursive institutionalism; ideas; neo-institutionalism; post-structural institutionalism; post-structuralism; power; knowledge

Publicerad i

Critical Review
2018, volym: 30, nummer: 3-4, sidor: 325-346
Utgivare: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

SLU författare

• Larsson, Oscar

  • Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

UKÄ forskningsämne

Statsvetenskap (Exklusive freds- och konfliktforskning)

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08913811.2018.1567982

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/99113