CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Galyan, Artak Ashot |
|---|---|
| Title | INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN RECONSIDERED: PATTERNS OF CONFIGURATION OF POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN PLURAL SOCIETIES |
| Summary | This thesis undertakes a configurational approach to institutional design in divided societies. Following the appropriate literature which says that any one model of institutional design is unlikely to be implemented in its pure form, this thesis aims at finding empirical patterns of configuration of five crucial political institutions in 18 divided societies. Using the exploratory capacities of the Qualitative Comparative Analysis, I first test the frequency of occurrence of ideal models which dominate the field of institutional design in divided societies. Later I explore the possible other patterns which cover the remaining cases. The research sheds doubt on the empirical validity of the ideal models, showing that ideal models are rarely implemented in the real world, while some of them do not have their empirical references at all. Through an exploratory analysis of the data I identify seven patterns of configurations of institutions in plural societies which cluster to each other following the common logic of institutional design and regularities of bi-variate relationships. The research also finds that the commonly accepted regularities of relationships among institutions are weak in divided societies, where crucial intervening variables influence these relationships. |
| Supervisor | Zsolt Enyedi |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/galyan_artak.pdf |
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