Conclusions and Implications

Abstract

This chapter presents the book’s main findings, conclusions, and implications for the study of institutionalisation. Regarding the case study, the institutionalisation of the Albanian military is straightforward: it happened because all were in favour and no one was affected negatively. The journey to this realisation however was tumultuous and retracing it clarified why two institutions under approaching ceteris paribus conditions produced different institutionalisation outcomes. From a wider perspective, the book demonstrates that to account for institutionalisation in emerging democracies the assumption of stable interests and institutionalisation have to be dropped. Overall, the book’s pre-institutionalisation theory provides a suitable framework to account for institutionalisation in emerging democracies, Albania’s current judicial reform, and expand the scope of established institutionalist theories.