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To introduce discursive institutionalism as a dynamic framework explaining how substantive ideas and interactive discourse generate political and institutional change.

May 21, 2008Annual Review of Political ScienceOpen Access

Discursive Institutionalism: The Explanatory Power of Ideas and Discourse

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To introduce discursive institutionalism as a dynamic framework explaining how substantive ideas and interactive discourse generate political and institutional change.
Conducted a theoretical synthesis analyzing the interaction of ideas and discourse across different institutional environments.
Categorized ideas across cognitive and normative dimensions at policy, program, and philosophical levels.
Differentiated coordinative discourse among policy elites from communicative discourse between political actors and the public across simple and compound polities.
Demonstrates that discourse operates through coordinative discourse among policymakers and communicative discourse directed to the public, varying systematically across polities.
Identifies that simple polities display stronger communicative discourse, whereas compound polities prioritize coordinative discourse.
Reconceptualizes institutions as internal cognitive constructs created through background ideational abilities and altered through foreground discursive communication.

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Theoretical analysis demonstrates the role of ideas and discourse in political institutions, highlighting how dynamic communication drives institutional change.

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Vivien A. Schmidt (2008) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/697b4efe3203c297974826db https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.polisci.11.060606.135342

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Theoretical analysis demonstrates the role of ideas and discourse in political institutions, highlighting how dynamic communication drives institutional change.

Discursive Institutionalism: The Explanatory Power of Ideas and Discourse

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