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The credibility thesis – A commentary from an original institutionalist position
Land Use Policy ( IF 6.189 ) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 , DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106717
Arild Vatn

This paper delivers an evaluation of the credibility thesis (CT) based on perspectives from original institutional economics. I first ask in what kind of explanation CT is grounded. Emphasizing functionality and denouncing intentionality, may indicate that it adheres to a functionalist type. At the same time, it does not seem to fulfil the criteria for such an explanation. CT explicitly refutes the idea of institutions in equilibrium. Second, I evaluate the proposal underlying CT that function supersedes form. I conclude that such a position cannot be generally defended. Form may even in some cases define what is understood as functional. Third, I therefore ask how to explain what institutions evolve and persist if they neither are chosen intentionally nor stabilized by functionalist mechanisms like an equilibrium. While there is definitive merit to the thesis and the research it has motivated, my analysis points towards a need for some reformulations.



中文翻译:

可信性论题——来自原始制度主义立场的评论

本文基于原始制度经济学的观点对可信度论文(CT)进行了评估。我首先问 CT 以何种解释为基础。强调功能性和谴责意向性,可能表明它坚持功能主义类型。同时,它似乎也不符合这种解释的标准。CT 明确地驳斥了均衡制度的观点。其次,我评估了功能取代形式的 CT 提案。我的结论是,这种立场不能得到普遍捍卫。在某些情况下,形式甚至可以定义什么被理解为功能性的。第三,因此我想问,如果制度既不是有意选择的,也不是被平衡等功能主义机制稳定的,那么如何解释制度的演变和持续。

更新日期:2023-05-07
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