This essay first specifies and describes the behavioral and information cost assumptions that underlie instrumental rationality and the consequent a-institutional world of neoclassical theory and contrasts these assumptions to those that underpin a theory of institutions and transaction costs. It then explores the characteristics of political markets, characterizing the costs of transacting in political markets…
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Journal of Theoretical Politics is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Game Theory and Voting Systems, Political Influence and Corporate Strategies.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Theoretical Politics, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Electoral Systems and Political Participation Game Theory and Voting Systems Political Influence and Corporate Strategies Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies Political Conflict and Governance |
| ISSN | 0951-6298 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 1.23 |
| h-index | 88 |
| i10-index | 478 |
| Total citations | 34,330 |
| Top institutions publishing here | New York University |
| Journal website | www.sagepub.com |
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The authors present a theory that seeks to explain why parties change their political strategies, organizational characteristics and issue positions. Whereas most of the existing literature on party change deals with party systems, the focus here is on individual parties. Whereas much of the literature views parties as responding more or less gradually to socioeconomic…
This article examines recent developments in a literature referred to as `the new institutionalism'. After reviewing some of the consequences for the study of institutions of the behavioral revolution and the elaboration of Arrovian theories of social choice, the author develops the theory of structure-induced equilibrium and explores the two sides of the institutional coin…
I seek to explain the disappointing performance of the field of comparative politics addressing the three basic questions: Why compare? What is comparable? and How? I also challenge the view that the methodology of comparison is pretty well known and established. Hosts of unsettled issues remain, while a growing cause of frustration and failure is…
The Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) is the major policy initiative of the Government of National Unity (GNU). The RDP is an integrated, coherent socio-economic framework which attempts to integrate development, reconstruction, redistribution and reconciliation into a unified programme. The aim of this paper is to assess the performance of the RDP in the first…