A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change

By A. Greif, David D. Laitin. American Political Science Review, 2004

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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2. P. Andrews-Speed
3. Nathan Nunn
4. Diego Puga
5. Daniel Trefler
6. Christopher Kingston
7. G. Mcdermott
8. Erik Wibbels

In Economics and Econometrics

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2. Nathan Nunn
3. Diego Puga
4. Daniel Trefler
5. Christopher Kingston
6. P. Andrews-Speed
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In Sociology and Political Science

1. Dan Trefler
2. P. Andrews-Speed
3. Nathan Nunn
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5. Diego Puga
6. W. Streeck
7. Christopher Kingston
8. Erik Wibbels

Citations in the corpus

• An institution-based view of global IPR history (2017, background): “Transitions can also take place in the presence of internal champions and change agents who deliberately push for institutional change (Greif & Laitin, 2004; Smets, Morris, & Greenwood, 2012).”
• The New Institutionalism (2010, background): “Slow moving forces that operate over la longue durée can thus lead to demands for institutional reform (Greif and Laitin 2004).”
• Taking capitalism seriously: Toward an institutionalist approach to contemporary political economy (2011, background): “Significant progress has recently been made towards an institutionalist account of change in social or economic orders, associated in particular with concepts like ‘path dependence’ and ‘increasing returns’ (Pierson, 2000), with the notion of ‘punctuated equilibrium’ and the distinction between disr”
• Institutions: Rules or Equilibria? (2011, background): “Institutional dynamics is therefore fundamentally about changes in motivation and regularities of behavior, and the analytical focus is on changes in beliefs, norms, and expectations (Greif and Laitin 2004; Greif 2006).”
• Constitutional Courts in Comparative Perspective: A Theoretical Assessment (2015, background): “In the language of Greif & Laitin (2004), they are “quasi-parameters.””
• International Trade and Institutional Change: Medieval Venice’s Response to Globalization (2014, background): “See also Greif and Laitin (2004) and Greif (2006a) who study the role of changing income distribution for institutional change in a comparative study of Venice and Genoa.”
• Applying institutional theory to the low-carbon energy transition (2016, positive): “Those who argue that the ultimate causes of institutional change may be endogenous highlight the importance of long-term trends within a society and of how these trends may act to undermine or alter an institution [6,57,68].”