Games Real Actors Play: Actor-centered Institutionalism In Policy Research

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined a case of an externally initiated program in a Dutch social housing neighbourhood, aiming to place tenants' needs at the centre Applying an environmental justice framework, they addressed both the historical-institutional legacies and the tenants' positions, showing how institutional pressures built up over time have resulted in a diluting of the programme into a top-down technology-pushed approach The relevance goes beyond this case: without ensuring the quality of the participation, institutional lock-ins can produce perverse outcomes, with the programme failing to achieve its (energy-efficiency)

TL;DR: A comparative historical-institutional analysis of postgraduate medical training reform in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands shows how strategic actions set negotiating authority processes into motion, producing new and sometimes surprising institutional arrangements that can have profound effects on the distribution and allocation of authority in the medical training regime.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze assumptions about the game metaphor, invoking insights from actor-network theory, and aim to deepen the understanding of the social innovation agency in these transformation games.

TL;DR: The authors show how, since 1994, sceptics have refined and extended the critique of rational choice and how practitioners have defended their approach, and a more general argument has emerged, and how changes to the way in which rational choice is practised and defended, together with some broader changes in the social sciences, have created more areas of common ground and taken some of the urgency out of this debate.