Institutionalization and De-Institutionalization of Political Organizations

The primary foci of this workshop are the institutionalization and de-institutionalization of political organizations, including but not limited to parties, pressure groups, and political movements involved in democratic processes. Papers on individual organizations or comparing across organizations are both germane. (In addition to papers on institutionalization and de-institutionalization per se, studies of organizations which have gone far in some aspects of the institutionalization process but which have not achieved complete institutionalization are also germane to this workshop.) The central intent is to identify the factors and specific processes involved in taking organizations from birth to institution-hood, and in some cases from institution-hood to decay and eventually collapse, and to identify the situational factors which make certain combinations of factors and processes effective in some contexts and not others.