scholarly journals Myths of tenure security and titling: Endogenous, institutional change in China's development

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 352-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ho
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Tenure Security ◽  
Endogenous Institutional Change

Political Survival and Endogenous Institutional Change

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita ◽  
Alastair Smith
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Political Survival ◽  
Endogenous Institutional Change

Institutional Change

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Thelen ◽  
James Conran
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Comparative Statics ◽  
Institutional Evolution ◽  
Sociological Institutionalism ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Critical Junctures ◽  
Contextual Change ◽  
Endogenous Institutional Change

This chapter traces developments in historical institutionalist approaches to institutional change. Originally, historical (like rational choice and sociological) institutionalism focused on institutions as “independent” variables, favoring a “comparative statics” mode of analysis. Institutions were relatively fixed and unproblematically enforced rules, while change came through periodic “critical junctures.” A dualistic institutional imagery treated institutions as exogenous for some analytical purposes, highly plastic for others. More recently, historical institutionalists have turned their attention to the dynamics of institutional evolution through political contestation and contextual change. This has allowed the identification of previously neglected processes of incremental and endogenous institutional change.

Adaptive Informal Institutions and Endogenous Institutional Change in China

2006 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kellee S. Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Informal Institutions ◽  
Formal Institutions ◽  
Private Economy ◽  
Private Sector Development ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Endogenous Institutional Change

Under certain circumstances, the etiology of endogenous institutional change lies in the informal coping strategies devised by local actors to evade the restrictions of formal institutions. With repetition and diffusion, these informal coping strategies may take on an institutional reality of their own. The author calls the resulting norms and practicesadaptiveinformal institutions because they represent creative responses to formal institutional environments that actors find too constraining. Adaptive informal institutions may then motivate elites to reform the original formal institutions. This contention is illustrated by three major institutional changes that have occurred in the course of China's private sector development since the late 1970s—the legalization of private enterprise, the admission of capitalists into the Chinese Communist Party, and the amendment of the state constitution to promote the private economy.

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