POL3140 Lecture Notes - New Institutionalism, Path Dependence
20 Mar 2014
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Yes it is part of new institutionalism because it was able to give individuals a voice within the municipal government of new heaven. Destroying federalism unless the constitution is set on fire . Institutions tend to do things they have done before. Stability if the norm and instability is the exception: new institutionalism is compatible because a city is an institution. The way immigrants were incorporated into the politics of new heaven was that they were incorporated into new institutions. They did not make new institutions; they did not make new structures of incorporation. They found a home within the party structures. Their movement into city government was within the institution itself. They could admit new individuals and continue to grow. The methods for bestowing these benefits are realized through working with these institutionalism structures. They do not have a set of free choices as to how things must be done.
