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| It implicitly assumes [[PoliticalScience/Instrumentalism|instrumentalism]] in that the form of institutions derives from utility rather than [[PoliticalPhilosophy|philosophy]]. Beyond this, it generally builds from either public choice or social choice methods for measuring and comparing utility. | It implicitly assumes [[PoliticalScience/Instrumentalism|instrumentalism]] in that the form of institutions derives from utility rather than [[PoliticalPhilosophy|philosophy]]. Beyond this, it generally builds from either public choice or social choice methods for measuring and comparing utility. Legislators are generally characterized by some combination of [[CongressTheElectoralConnection|credit claiming]] and [[ThePoliticsOfBlameAvoidance|blame avoiding]]. If assumptions about rationality and utility functions are not being made, the work is better classified under [[PoliticalScience/ElectoralSystems|comparative politics]]. |
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| * [[WinningTheWestToMunicipalReform|Winning the West to Municipal Reform]], Amy Bridges, 1992 * [[IncentivesToCultivateAPersonalVote|Incentives to Cultivate a Personal Vote: a Rank Ordering of Electoral Formulas]], Matthew Shugart and John Carey, 1995 * [[CentralizedVersusDecentralizedProvisionOfLocalPublicGoods|Centralized versus decentralized provision of local public goods: a political economy approach]], Timothy Besley and Stephen Coate, 2003 |
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| * [[AgencyInstitutionsAndWelfareChauvinism|Agency, institutions, and welfare chauvinism: Tracing the exclusion of European Union migrant citizens from social assistance in Germany]]; Dominic Afscharian, Cecilia Bruzelius, and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser; 2024 * [[WhenIncumbentsSuccessfullyRetrenchBigAndPopularSocialPolicies|When incumbents successfully retrench big and popular social policies: policy design matters]], Marta Arretche and Pedro H. G. F. Souza, 2024 * [[TermLimitsInParliamentAndElectoralDisconnection|Term limits in parliament and electoral disconnection: the case of the Five Star Movement]]; Francesco Bromo, Paolo Gambacciani, and Marco Improta; 2024 * [[TheEffectsOfDistrictMagnitudeOnTheNumberOfIntraPartyFactions|The effects of district magnitude on the number of intra-party factions: the case of Colombia, 1958–1990]] Germán Campos-Herrera and Patricio Navia, 2024 |
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| * [[CompanyTowns|Company Towns: Single-Industry Dominance and Local Government Capacity]], Elizabeth Mitchell Elder, 2025 * [[WhoKnowsHowToGovern|Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils]]; Adam Michael Auerbach, Shikhar Singh, and Tariq Thachil; 2025 * [[LegislativeEffectivenessInTheAmericanStates|Legislative Effectiveness in the American States]]; Peter Bucchianeri, Craig Volden, and Alan E. Wiseman; 2025 * [[DecentralizationAndIdeology|Decentralization and ideology]]; Anna M. Wilke, Georgiy Syunyaev, and Michael Ting; 2026 |
Institutional Design
Institutional design is a field that studies the game theoretic and comparative outcomes of structures.
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Description
Institutional design is the study of how actors behave within an institution (or otherwise-defined rule set) and of how to shape an institution to yield certain behavior.
It implicitly assumes instrumentalism in that the form of institutions derives from utility rather than philosophy. Beyond this, it generally builds from either public choice or social choice methods for measuring and comparing utility. Legislators are generally characterized by some combination of credit claiming and blame avoiding.
If assumptions about rationality and utility functions are not being made, the work is better classified under comparative politics.
For studies of democratic (little d, one-person-one-vote) voting rules, the theory of rational choice voting is the appropriate specialization.
Reading Notes
The Theory of Political Coalitions William H. Riker, 1962
The Closed Rule and the Paradox of Voting, John C. Blydenburgh, 1971
Congressmen in Committees, Richard F. Fenno, Jr., 1973
Congress: The Electoral Connection, David R. Mayhew, 1974
The Politics of Blame Avoidance, R. Kent Weaver, 1986
Winning the West to Municipal Reform, Amy Bridges, 1992
Incentives to Cultivate a Personal Vote: a Rank Ordering of Electoral Formulas, Matthew Shugart and John Carey, 1995
Centralized versus decentralized provision of local public goods: a political economy approach, Timothy Besley and Stephen Coate, 2003
Foreign Policy Begins at Home, Richard N. Haass, 2013
Did Hamilton, Jefferson, and Madison “Cause” the U.S. Government Shutdown? The Institutional Path from an Eighteenth Century Republic to a Twenty-first Century Democracy, John H. Aldrich, 2015
The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era, Frances E. Lee, 2020
Dolce far niente? Non-compliance and blame avoidance in the EU; Lisa Kriegmair, Berthold Rittberger, Bernhard Zangl, and Tim Heinkelmann-Wild; 2021
A Case for Congress: Shared Power for a Divided Society, Frances E. Lee, 2024
Agency, institutions, and welfare chauvinism: Tracing the exclusion of European Union migrant citizens from social assistance in Germany; Dominic Afscharian, Cecilia Bruzelius, and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser; 2024
When incumbents successfully retrench big and popular social policies: policy design matters, Marta Arretche and Pedro H. G. F. Souza, 2024
Term limits in parliament and electoral disconnection: the case of the Five Star Movement; Francesco Bromo, Paolo Gambacciani, and Marco Improta; 2024
The effects of district magnitude on the number of intra-party factions: the case of Colombia, 1958–1990 Germán Campos-Herrera and Patricio Navia, 2024
Demanding more than what you want, Zuheir Desai and Scott A. Tyson, 2025
Persistent unilateral action, David Foster, 2025
Legislative reciprocity: Using a proposal lottery to identify causal effects, Semra Sevi and Donald P. Green, 2025
Bureaucratic politics in customized implementation of the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive in France and Germany, Anna Simstich, 2025
Company Towns: Single-Industry Dominance and Local Government Capacity, Elizabeth Mitchell Elder, 2025
Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils; Adam Michael Auerbach, Shikhar Singh, and Tariq Thachil; 2025
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States; Peter Bucchianeri, Craig Volden, and Alan E. Wiseman; 2025
Decentralization and ideology; Anna M. Wilke, Georgiy Syunyaev, and Michael Ting; 2026