This paper is one of a series prepared under the sponsorship of DOE's
Photovoltaic (PV) Program as part of the institutional analysis of housing.
After an introduction describing the theory and methods of institutional
analysis, the paper is organized into three sections. ABSTRACT, the first
section, presents the research design used for institutional analysis of HUD's
Solar Heating and Cooling Demonstration Program. It contains an hypothesized
institutional arena, which describes the institutional entities in the housing
arena by function and activity and then arrays them according to intensity of
interaction across function. The second section of the paper describes the HUD
program and describes how it serves as the perturbation prompter for institutional
analysis. The third section of the paper presents the specific research design
used in the study. From the first three cycles of the HUD program, 11 projects
were chosen for on-site case study. A special open-ended semi-structured
survey instrument was used to collect information from a set of informants
identified for each project. The results of this data collection effort are
reported in subsequent reports in this project
