Institutional Logics: On the Constitutive Dimensions of the Modern Nation-State Polities

Nation-state; institutionalisation; institutions; state building; identity

Institutional Logics: On the Constitutive Dimensions of the Modern Nation-State Polities

Digitised version produced by the EUI Library and made available online in 2020

The Development and Application of Sociological Neoinstitutionalisn

Digitised version produced by the EUI Library and made available online in 2020

People, place, and system: organizations and the renewal of urban social theory

This article offers a theoretical framework for thinking about how organizations matter for the production, reproduction, and amelioration of urban poverty. We draw on the classical concept of integration, in both its social and systemic versions, as an important tool for advancing urban social theory. A key challenge for urban organizational analysts is to keep within view the processes of both social and systemic integration, while empirically investigating how they are connected (or not). Too many urban researchers focus on one or the other, with little conceptualization of the importance of linking the two. We argue that urban organizations of all kinds provide a strategic site for observing processes of both social and systemic integration, and that urban organizational research should examine many of them to better understand the multiple urban transformations currently in process

Liberal Environmentalism and Global Environmental Governance

Global environmental governance rests on a set of norms best characterized by the label "liberal environmentalism." The 1992 Earth Summit catalyzed the process of institutionalizing these norms, which predicate environmental pro tection on the promotion and maintenance of a liberal economic order. To support this claim, this article identifies the specific norms institutionalized since Rio that undergird international environmental treaties, policies and programs. It also explains why a shift toward liberal environmentalism occurred from earlier, very different, bases of environmental governance. The implications of this shift are then outlined, with examples drawn from responses to climate change, forest protection and use, and biosafety. The article is not an endorsement of liberal environmentalism. Rather, it shows that institutions that have developed in response to global environmental problems support particular kinds of values and goals, with important implications for the constraints and opportunities to combat the world's most serious environmental problems. Copyright (c) 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.