Institution: Difference between revisions
This is path dependence at the institutional scale, a phenomenon more precisely analyzed as Institutional Path Dependence — the tendency of institutions to persist not because they are optimal but because the costs of transition exceed the benefits for any individual actor. Tag: Replaced |
It is hard because institutions are embedded in legitimacy structures and institutional legitimacy: they are accepted not merely because they are useful but because they are regarded as right, natural, or inevitable. Changing an institution requires not only redesigning the rules but renegotiating the legitimacy of the new rules. And it requires Accountability: the capacity of those subject to institutional power to hold power-holders... |
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It is hard because institutions are embedded in [[Political Legitimacy|legitimacy structures]]: they are accepted not merely because they are useful but because they are regarded as right, natural, or inevitable. | |||
Revision as of 10:24, 1 June 2026
It is hard because institutions are embedded in legitimacy structures: they are accepted not merely because they are useful but because they are regarded as right, natural, or inevitable.