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This chapter focuses on institutional policy, which is defined as the intentional influence on the degree and direction of the institutionalization of a guiding idea. Regulation, de-regulation, and re-regulation are the day-to-day work of institutional policy. Institutional analysis takes place in a five-dimensional “property space” consisting of, first, the development of ideas into rationality criteria, second, the differentiation of validity contexts, third, the means to sanction, fourth, the externalization of problems not covered by the institution, and fifth, conflicts and mediation processes between different guiding ideas. The focus on institutional policy makes institutional analysis even more complex since the relationship between institutions and the overall institutional order that is influenced by this relationship is to be taken into account.
Translated from German with permission from Springer. Original Publication: Lepsius MR (2013) Institutionenanalyse und Institutionenpolitik. In: Lepsius MR, Institutionalisierung politischen Handelns. Wiesbaden, Springer VS, pp. 11–25. Translated and edited by Claus Wendt, University of Siegen/Germany, wendt@soziologie.uni-siegen.de.
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Lepsius, M.R. (2017). Institutional Analysis and Institutional Policy. In: Wendt, C. (eds) Max Weber and Institutional Theory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44708-7_4
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