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    Norms, interests and institutional change

    Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. (2005) Norms, interests and institutional change. Political Studies 53 (4), pp. 676-693. ISSN 0032-3217.

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    Abstract

    This paper provides a norms-based account of institutional change. It compares two cases of attempted change, one successful and one unsuccessful. The argument advanced is that norm-based change occurs when the norms are congruent with the perceived interests of the actors who have the power to take on the decision. Norms affect the process of institutional change not only by providing legitimacy to some forms of political action, but also by shaping the actors’ perception of their interests as well their strategies. It is argued that norms, in that sense, help political actors combine Max Weber's zweckrational (goal-orientated) and wertrational (value-orientated) categories of behaviour. Empirical evidence drawn from the context of the evolving European Union supports this argument.

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    Item Type: Article
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Ideas, Transparency, Britain, Europe
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
    Depositing User: Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos
    Date Deposited: 05 Apr 2005
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 16:45
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/127

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