New Institutional Politics

• Main Author: Buğra KALKAN
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Gaziantep University 2015-12-01
• Series: Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences
• Subjects: Yeni kurumsal siyaset; kurumsal değişim; rasyonel tercih; kültürel yaklaşım; izlek bağımlılık; New institutional politics; institutional change; rational choice; cultural approach; path dependance
• Online Access: http://dergipark.gov.tr/jss/issue/24222/256757?publisher=gantep

New institutional politics is an interdisciplinary movement that tries to reinstate the institutional politics to the center of the political science. After the limits of formal-legal analyze, used by old institutional politics, have been criticized by behaviorists, rational choice and neo-Marxist movements, since 1950, the state was alienated from the center of the political studies as an independent variable. Since 1980, neo institutional politics, raised as a reaction to this development, has been developing a new description and understanding of the institution which goes beyond the limitations of the old one. The rise and change of the political institutions and the interactions between political institutions and the actors, are being retheorized, by depending on informal rules and conventions as much as formal rules, and pointing out cultural factors as much as legal factors. So, in this study, rational choice, sociological and historical new institutional politics, as the three different school of new institutionalism, will be examined separately and there will be a debate on colliding and overlapping points of these schools