POLITICS AND INSTITUTIONALISM: Explaining Durability and Change

The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields

1983 • 30,238 citations

Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

1990 • 26,171 citations

Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony

1977 • 25,202 citations

Outline of a Theory of Practice

1977 • 24,720 citations

The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields

2004 • 24,090 citations

The Constitution of Society. Outline of the Theory of Structuration

1984 • 20,858 citations

Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning

1991 • 19,907 citations

The Social Construction of Reality

1967 • 14,084 citations

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

1994 • 12,132 citations

Interorganizational Collaboration and the Locus of Innovation: Networks of Learning in Biotechnology

1996 • 8,404 citations

Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies

1986 • 8,006 citations

The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis

1991 • 7,354 citations

Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms

1996 • 6,419 citations

Selections from the Prison Notebooks

2007 • 6,359 citations

Rediscovering institutions: the organizational basis of politics

1990 • 5,688 citations

Organizational Learning

1988 • 5,567 citations

States and Social Revolutions

1979 • 5,102 citations

A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation

1992 • 4,951 citations

Structure and Change in Economic History.

1982 • 4,237 citations

The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life

1983 • 3,787 citations

Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements

1996 • 3,650 citations

Power: A Radical View

1974 • 3,355 citations

The Role of Institutionalization in Cultural Persistence

1977 • 2,992 citations

Institutional Sources of Change in the Formal Structure of Organizations: The Diffusion of Civil Service Reform, 1880-1935

1983 • 2,847 citations

Institutions and Organizations

1998 • 2,777 citations

Bringing Society Back In : Symbols, Practices, and Institutional Contradictions

1991 • 2,771 citations

Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970

1983 • 2,746 citations

Historical institutionalism in comparative politics

1992 • 2,655 citations

Dismantling the Welfare State?

1994 • 2,536 citations

Nationalism Reframed

1996 • 2,316 citations

Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in Current Research

1985 • 2,212 citations

Protecting Soldiers and Mothers

1992 • 2,202 citations

Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434

1993 • 2,167 citations

Bringing the State Back In

1985 • 2,150 citations

The Sources of Social Power

1986 • 2,117 citations

Institutional conditions for diffusion

1993 • 2,067 citations

Politics : Who Gets What, When, How

1937 • 1,871 citations

The Focused Organization of Social Ties

1981 • 1,833 citations

The Fiscal Crisis of the State

1973 • 1,817 citations

Small states in world markets: industrial policy in Europe

1986 • 1,625 citations

Diffusion in Organizations and Social Movements: From Hybrid Corn to Poison Pills

1998 • 1,623 citations

Constructing Social Theories.

1969 • 1,546 citations

Building a New American State

1982 • 1,469 citations

Markets as Politics: A Political-Cultural Approach to Market Institutions

1996 • 1,444 citations

Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field

1994 • 1,437 citations

Governing the economy: the politics of state intervention in Britain and France

1987 • 1,435 citations

Historical Institutionalism in comparative politics

1997 • 1,416 citations

Just Institutions Matter

1998 • 1,327 citations

Structuring Politics

1992 • 1,311 citations

A Grammar of Institutions

1995 • 1,268 citations

Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild

1994 • 1,245 citations

Approaches to the State: Alternative Conceptions and Historical Dynamics

1984 • 1,159 citations

Institutional Change and the Transformation of Interorganizational Fields: An Organizational History of the U.S. Radio Broadcasting Industry

1991 • 1,158 citations

Norms, culture, and world politics: insights from sociology's institutionalism

1996 • 1,145 citations

The Transformation of Corporate Control.

1991 • 1,079 citations

Culture and agency: the place of culture in social theory

1989 • 1,057 citations

Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley.

1981 • 1,008 citations

Choosing Preferences by Constructing Institutions: A Cultural Theory of Preference Formation

1987 • 979 citations

World Expansion of Mass Education, 1870-1980

1992 • 966 citations

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

1998 • 918 citations

Untitled

1998 • 912 citations

Forging Industrial Policy

1994 • 872 citations

A Theory of Group Stability

1991 • 859 citations

Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden: From Relief to Income Maintenance

1975 • 834 citations

Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe

1995 • 806 citations

Legal Environments and Organizational Governance: The Expansion of Due Process in the American Workplace

1990 • 780 citations

The Institutional Foundations of Committee Power

1987 • 769 citations

Structuring a Theory of Moral Sentiments: Institutional and Organizational Coevolution in the Early Thrift Industry

1997 • 755 citations

The Organizational State: Social Choice in National Policy Domains.

1990 • 686 citations

The Institutional Foundations of Committee Power

2008 • 682 citations

On the Autonomy of the Democratic State

1982 • 679 citations

State Structures and the Possibilities for “Keynesian” Responses to the Great Depression in Sweden, Britain, and the United States

1985 • 664 citations

Crosscutting Social Circles: Testing a Macrostructural Theory of Intergroup Relations

1984 • 654 citations

The New Institutionalism in Sociology

1999 • 619 citations

Explaining Social Institutions

1996 • 559 citations

Ending the Family Quarrel

1997 • 545 citations

Imitation and Innovation

1987 • 509 citations

From Ambushes to Golden Parachutes: Corporate Takeovers as an Instance of Cultural Framing and Institutional Integration

1986 • 490 citations

Organizational Repertoires and Institutional Change: Women's Groups and the Transformation of U.S. Politics, 1890-1920

1993 • 490 citations

Trust in numbers: The pursuit of objectivity in science and public life

1996 • 479 citations

The Ironies of Affirmative Action

1996 • 471 citations

On the Virtues of the Old Institutionalism

1997 • 459 citations

How to Make a Market: Reflections on the Attempt to Create a Single Market in the European Union

1996 • 448 citations

The organizational structure of new social movements in a political context

1996 • 394 citations

The Legalization of the Workplace

1994 • 383 citations

The World Educational Revolution, 1950-1970

1977 • 359 citations

Labor-market institutions and working-class strength

1992 • 348 citations

A Hero for the Aged? The Townsend Movement, the Political Mediation Model, and U.S. Old-Age Policy, 1934-1950

1992 • 335 citations

City of Capital

1996 • 324 citations

It's the Institutions, Stupid! Why Comprehensive National Health Insurance Always Fails in America

1995 • 316 citations

Union of parts: labor politics in postwar Germany

1992 • 316 citations

The struggle for water: politics, rationality, and identity in the American Southwest

1999 • 316 citations

The rules of the game: The logic of health policy-making in France, Switzerland, and Sweden

1992 • 298 citations

The New Institutionalism in Political Science and Sociology

1995 • 291 citations

The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to George Bush

1995 • 261 citations

Political Jurisprudence, the “New Institutionalism,” and the Future of Public Law

1988 • 259 citations

Bold Relief

1998 • 258 citations

Theoretical Methods in Social History

1978 • 256 citations

The International Labor Organization and the welfare state: institutional effects on national welfare spending, 1960–80

1993 • 252 citations

Rules, Resources, and Legitimacy Processes: Some Implications for Social Conflict, Order, and Change

1994 • 250 citations

The Hidden Welfare State

1999 • 239 citations

Organizing Integrity: American Science and the Creation of Public Interest Organizations, 1955-1975

1996 • 214 citations

The people's lobby: organizational innovation and the rise of interest group politics in the United States, 1890-1925

1998 • 212 citations

From Dependency to Sovereignty: An Event History Analysis of Decolonization 1870-1987

1990 • 206 citations

Once a friend, always a friend? Effects of homophily on women's support networks across a decade

1997 • 198 citations

Principals and Agents, Colonialists and Company Men: The Decay of Colonial Control in the Dutch East Indies

1996 • 196 citations

Legitimacy processes as institutional politics: Implications for theory and research in the sociology of organizations

2004 • 193 citations

Stolen Thunder? Huey Long's "Share Our Wealth," Political Mediation, and the Second New Deal

1994 • 192 citations

Labor Visions and State Power

1993 • 189 citations

Understanding the Dialectic of Discourse and Collective Action: Public Debate and Rioting in Antebellum Cincinnati

1995 • 184 citations

Economic Behavior in Institutional Environments: The Corporate Merger Wave of the 1980s

1996 • 181 citations

Five Propositions about Institutional Change

1993 • 175 citations

Beyond Individual Differences: Social Differentiation from First Principles

1998 • 170 citations

"A True American System of Finance": Frame Resonance in the U.S. Labor Movement, 1866 to 1886

1996 • 167 citations

Interests, Institutions, and Positive Theory: The Politics of the NLRB

1987 • 161 citations

Runaway Train? The Diffusion of State‐Level Reform in ADC/AFDC Eligibility Requirements, 1950–1967

1997 • 145 citations

The Ecological Aspect of Institutions

1936 • 140 citations

Boomerang: Clinton's Health Security Effort and the Turn Against Government in U.S. Politics.

1997 • 136 citations

The collapse of a social movement: The interplay of mobilizing structures, framing, and political opportunities in the Knights of Labor

1996 • 135 citations

Taxation and Democracy: Swedish, British and American Approaches to Financing the Modern State.

1995 • 128 citations

From Service Provision to Institutional Advocacy: The Shifting Legitimacy of Organizational Forms

1994 • 108 citations

The politics of pensions: a comparative analysis of Britain, Canada, and the United States, 1880-1940

1993 • 107 citations

Political Culture Wars 1960s Style: Equal Employment Opportunity–Affirmative Action Law and the Philadelphia Plan

1997 • 106 citations

Politics and Jobs: The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States

1993 • 105 citations

Occupational Power, State Capacities, and the Diffusion of Licensing in the American States: 1890 to 1950

1993 • 95 citations

Division and Cohesion in Democracy: A Study of Norway

1967 • 94 citations

Beyond the Iconography of Order: Notes for a “New Institutionalism”

2018 • 89 citations

The Rise of the West

1985 • 77 citations

Taxing Women

1997 • 76 citations

Alternative Tracks

1994 • 71 citations

Small property versus big government: social origins of the property tax revolt

1990 • 70 citations

From Service Provision to Institutional Advocacy: The Shifting Legitimacy of Organizational Forms

1994 • 61 citations

From the Outside In

1996 • 59 citations

From an Autonomous to a Captured State Agency: The Decline of the New Deal in Agriculture

1990 • 54 citations

When is the State Autonomous? Culture, Organization Theory, and the Political Sociology of the State

1994 • 50 citations

The value of cognitive foundations for dynamic social theory

1989 • 44 citations

Politics and Industrialization: Early Railroads in the United States and Prussia

1995 • 42 citations

The Weakness of Strong Theories: The U.S. State's Dominance of the World War II Investment Process

1993 • 30 citations

Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern Farmers' Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880-1890

1977 • 28 citations

The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan.

1995 • 16 citations

Is Political Sociology Informed by Political Science?

1995 • 7 citations

The Eclectic Center of the New Institutionalism: Axes of Analysis in Comparative Perspective

1995 • 5 citations

Is Political Sociology Informed by Political Science?

1995 • 3 citations

Self Assessment Colour Review of Cardiothoracic Critical Care

1998 • 1 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations