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A New Social Ontology of GovernmentInstitutions, Norms, and Networks

A New Social Ontology of Government: Institutions, Norms, and Networks [Structures, normativenormative system systems, and institutions are things with sufficient fixity over time and sufficient firmness to permit them to be regarded as social entitiessocial entities. This chapter considers the ontological status of higher-level social entities. Institutions and normative systems are social configurations that have enduring properties that are largely independent of the individuals whom they encompass. They affect the behavior of individuals within them, and they affect the outcomes that individuals achieve through their efforts. Further, they are causally influential in large processes of social change and social stability. Institutions work through the creation of rolesroles, incentivesincentives, motivations, and culturalculture frameworks to coordinate the behavior of participants within their scope. We might define a norm as a socially embodied and individually perceived imperative that such-and-so an action in a given context must be performed in such-and-so a fashion. The chapter considers some of the aggregative processes that serve as microfoundations for entities like institutions, cultures, and normative systems.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A New Social Ontology of GovernmentInstitutions, Norms, and Networks

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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978-3-030-48922-9
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71 –90
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10.1007/978-3-030-48923-6_5
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[Structures, normativenormative system systems, and institutions are things with sufficient fixity over time and sufficient firmness to permit them to be regarded as social entitiessocial entities. This chapter considers the ontological status of higher-level social entities. Institutions and normative systems are social configurations that have enduring properties that are largely independent of the individuals whom they encompass. They affect the behavior of individuals within them, and they affect the outcomes that individuals achieve through their efforts. Further, they are causally influential in large processes of social change and social stability. Institutions work through the creation of rolesroles, incentivesincentives, motivations, and culturalculture frameworks to coordinate the behavior of participants within their scope. We might define a norm as a socially embodied and individually perceived imperative that such-and-so an action in a given context must be performed in such-and-so a fashion. The chapter considers some of the aggregative processes that serve as microfoundations for entities like institutions, cultures, and normative systems.]

Published: Jul 8, 2020

Keywords: Corruption; Institutions; New institutionalism; Normative systems; Organizational culture; Social networks

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