The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life

American Political Science Review

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1983, Pages 734-749

  March, James G ^a   Olsen, Johan P ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971135250     PISSN: 00030554     EISSN: 15375943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1961840     Document Type: Article

References (98)

1. Akerlof G.A. The economics of social customs, of which unemployment may be one consequence. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1980, 95, 749-775.
2. Ashford D.E. Political science and policy studies: towards a structural solution. Policy Studies Journal, 1977, 5, 570-583.
3. Axelrod R. More effective choice in prisoners' dilemma. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1980, 24, 379-403.
4. Axelrod R., & Hamilton W.D. The evolution of cooperation. Science, 1981, 211, 1390-1396.
5. Bachrach P., & Baratz M. The two faces of power. American Political Science Review, 1962, 56, 947-952.
6. Becker G.S., & Stigler G.J. De gustibus non est disputandum. American Economic Review, 1977, 67, 76-90.
7. Berger S. (Ed.). Organizing interests in Europe: pluralism, corporatism, and the transformation of politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
8. Berki R.N. State and society: an antithesis of modern political thought. In Hayward J.E.S. & Berki R.N. (Eds.), State and society in contemporary Europe. Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1979.
9. Burns J.M. Leadership. New York: Harperand Row, 1978.
10. Cohen A.P. Two-dimensional man: an essay on the anthropology of power and symbolism in complex societies. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974.
11. Cohen M.D., & Axelrod R. Coping with complexity: The adaptive value of changing utility. American Economic Review, 1984, 74, 30-42.
12. Cohen M.D., March J.G., & Olsen J.P. A garbage can model of organizational choice. Administrative Science Quarterly, 1972, 17, 1-25.
13. Crozier M. The bureaucratic phenomenon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.
14. Cyert R.M., & March J.G. A behavioral theory of the firm. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963.
15. Downs A. An economic theory of democracy. New York: Harper and Row, 1957.
16. Easton D. Political science. In Sills D.L. (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social sciences. Vol. 12. New York and London: Macmillan and Free Press, 1968.
17. Eckhoff T., & Jacobsen K.D. Rationality and responsibility in administrative and judicial decisionmaking. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1960.
18. Edelman M. The symbolic uses of politics. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1964.
19. Egeberg M. Stat og organisasjoner. Bergen: Universitetsforlaget, 1981.
20. Enderud H. The perception of power. In March J.G. & Olsen J.P. (Eds.), Ambiguity and choice in organizations. Bergen: Universitetsforlaget, 1976.
21. Etheredge L.S. The case of the unreturned cafeteria trays. Washington, D.C.: American Political Science Association, 1976.
22. Evans P., Rueschemeyer D., & Skocpol T. (Eds.). Bringing the state back in. Report of a conference on research implications of current theories of the state. Unpublished manuscript, 1983.
23. Feldman M.S., & March J.G. Information as signal and symbol. Administrative Science Quarterly, 1981, 26, 171-186.
24. Feller W. An introduction to probability theory and its applications, Vol. I. New York: Wiley, 1950.
25. Friedman M. Essays in positive economics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953.
26. Geertz C. Negara: the theater state in nineteenth-century Bali. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980.
27. Hanf K., & Scharpf F. (Eds.). Interorganizational policy making: limits to coordination and central control. London: Sage, 1978.
28. Hayward J.E.S., & Berki R.N. (Eds.). State and society in contemporary Europe. Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1979.
29. Heclo H. Modern social policies in Britain and Sweden. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1974.
30. Heller H. Political science. In Seligman E.R.A. & Johnson A. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of the social sciences. New York: Macmillan, 1933 (1957).
31. Hirschleifer J., & Riley J.G. The analytics of uncertainty and informationan expository survey. Journal of Economic Literature, 1979, 17, 1375-1421.
32. Jessop B. Recent theories of the capitalist state. In Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1977, 1, 353-373.
33. Kahneman D. Bureaucracies, minds, and the human engineering of decisions. In Ungson G.R. & Braunstein D.N. (Eds.), Decision making: an interdisciplinary inquiry. Boston: Kent, 1982.
34. Kahneman D., Slovic P., & Tversky A. (Eds.). Judgment under uncertainty: heuristics and biases. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
35. Katzenstein P.J. (Ed.). Between power and plenty: foreign economic policies of advanced industrial states. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978.
36. Kjellberg F. Political institutionalization. London: Wiley, 1975.
37. Krasner S.D. Defending the national interest: raw materials, investments and the U.S. foreign policy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1978.
38. Krasner S.D. Approaches to the state: alternative conceptions and historical dynamics. Comparative Politics, in press.AMBIGUOUS (6 citations)
39. Krieger S. Mirror dance. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983.
40. Kurz M. Altruism as an outcome of social interaction. American Economic Review, 1978, 68, 216-222.
41. Laegreid P., & Olsen J.P. Byraakrati og beslutninger. Bergen: Universitetsforlaget, 1978.
42. Lafferty W.M. Participation and democracy in Norway. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1981.
43. Lave C.A., & March J.G. An introduction to models in the social sciences. New York: Harper and Row, 1975.
44. Levi M. The predatory theory of rule. Politics and Society, 1981, 10, 431-465.
45. Levinthal D., & March J.G. A model of adaptive organizational search. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 1982, 2, 307-333.
46. Long N. The local community as an ecology of games. American Journal of Sociology, 1958, 44, 251-261.
47. Luce R.D., & Raiffa H. Games and decisions. New York: Wiley, 1957.
48. March J.C., & March J.G. Performance sampling in social matches. Administrative Science Quarterly, 1978, 23, 434-453.
49. March J.G. Bounded rationality, ambiguity, and the engineering of choice. Bell Journal of Economics, 1978, 9, 587-608.
50. March J.G. The business firm as a political coalition. Journal of Politics, 1962, 24, 662-678.
51. March J.G. Decisions in organizations and theories of choice. In van de Ven A.H. & Joyce W.F. (Eds.), Perspectives on organizational design and behavior. New York: Wiley, 1981.
52. March J.G. Politics and the city. In Arrow K., Coleman J.S., Downs A., & March J.G. (Eds.), Urban processes as viewed by the social sciences. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute, 1970.
53. March J.G. The power of power. In Easton D. (Ed.), Varieties of political theory. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1966.
54. March J.G., & Olsen J.P. Ambiguity and choice in organizations. Bergen: Universitetsforlaget, 1976.
55. March J.G., & Olsen J.P. Organizing political life: What administrative reorganization tells us about government. American Political Science Review, 1983, 77, 281-296.
56. March J.G., & Shapiro Z. Behavioral decision theory and organizational decision theory. In Ungson G.R. & Braunstein D.N. (Eds.), Decision making: an interdisciplinary inquiry. Boston: Kent, 1982.
57. March J.G., & Simon H.A. Organizations. New York: Wiley, 1958.
58. Masters R.D. The biological nature of the state. World Politics, 1983, 55, 161-193.
59. Meyer J.W., & Rowan B. Institutionalized organizations: formal structure as myth and ceremony. American Journal of Sociology, 1977, 83, 340-363.
60. Nelson R.R., & Winter S.G. An evolutionary theory of economic change. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982.
61. Nisbet R., & Ross L. Human inference: strategies and shortcomings of social judgement. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1980.
62. Niskanen W.A. Bureaucracy and representative government. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1971.
63. Nordlinger E. On the autonomy of the democratic state. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981.
64. Olsen J.P. Local budgeting: decision making or a ritual act? Scandinavian Political Studies, 1970, 5, 85-118.
65. Olsen J.P. Organizational integration in government. In Nystrom P. & Starbuck W. (Eds.), Handbook of organizational design. Vol. 2. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
66. Olsen J.P. Organized democracy. Bergen: Universitetsforlaget, 1983.
67. Olsen J.P., & Saetren H. Aksjoner og demokrati. Bergen: Universitetsforlaget, 1980.
68. Olson M. The logic of collective action. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1965.
69. Padgett J.F. Hierarchy and ecological control in federal budgetary decision making. American Journal of Sociology, 1981, 57, 75-129.
70. Pateman C. Participation and democratic theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970.
71. Pfeffer J. Management as symbolic action: The Creation and maintenance of organizational paradigms. In Cummings L. & Staw B.M. (Eds.), Research in organizational behavior. Vol. 3. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1981(a).
72. Pfeffer J. Some consequences of organizational demography: Potential impacts of an aging work force on formal organizations. In Kiesler S.B., Morgan J.N., & Oppenheimer V.K. (Eds.), Aging: social change. New York: Academic Press, 1981(b).
73. Pondy L.R. Leadership as a language game. In McCall M.W. Jr. & Lombardo M.M. (Eds.), Leadership. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1978.
74. Potter A.L. Political institutions, political decay and the Argentine crises of 1930. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Stanford University, 1979.
75. Pressman J.L., & Wildavsky A.B. Implementation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.
76. Preston L.D., & Keachie E.C. Cost functions and progress functions: an integration. American Economic Review, 1964, 54, 100-108.
77. Robins R.S. Political institutionalization and the integration of elites. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage, 1976.
78. Scharpf F.W. Does organization matter? Task structure and interaction in the ministerial bureaucracy. In Burack E.H. & Negandhi A.R. (Eds.), Organizational design: theoretical perspectives and empirical findings. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1977.
79. Schmitter P., & Lehmbruch G. (Eds.). Trends toward corporatist intermediation. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage, 1979.
80. Selznick P. Leadership in administration. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1957.
81. Sharpe W.F. Portfolio theory and capital markets. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970.
82. Shepsle K., & Weingast B. Institutionalizing majority rule: A social choice theory with policy implications. American Economic Review, 1983, 73, 357-372.
83. Simon H.A. Administrative behavior. (2nd ed.) New York: Macmillan, 1957a.
84. Simon H.A. Models of man. New York: Wiley, 1957.
85. Skocpol T. Political response to capitalist crises: neoMarxist theories of the state and the case of the New Deal. Politics and Society, 1980, 10(2), 155-201.
86. Skocpol T. States and social revolutions: a comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
87. Skocpol T., & Finegold K. State capacity and economic intervention in the early New Deal. Political Science Quarterly, 1982, 97, 255-278.
88. Skowronek S. Building a new American state. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
89. Stephan A.C. The state and society: Peru in comparative perspective. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1978.
90. Stigler G.J. The theory of price (Rev. ed.) New York: Macmillan, 1952.
91. Therborn G. What does the ruling class do when it rules? London: Verso, 1980.
92. Tilly C. (Ed.). From mobilization to revolution. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1978.
93. Trimberger E.K. Revolution from above: Military bureaucrats and development in Japan, Turkey, Egypt, and Peru. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1978.
94. Trivers R. The evolution of reciprocal altruism. Quarterly Review of Biology, 1971, 46, 35-57.
95. Waterstone G.C. Order and counterorder. Dualism in western culture. New York: Philosophical Library, 1966.
96. Williamson O.E. Markets and hierarchies. New York: Free Press, 1978.
97. Wolin S. Politics and vision. Boston: Little, Brown, 1960.
98. Wright H.T. Recent research on the origin of the state. Annual Review of Anthropology, 1977, 6, 379-397.