The new institutionalism approach and institutional changes in Slovenian regional development policy
No.4(2010)
Abstract
Keywords:
new institutionalism; European regional policy; Slovenia; accommodation
The aim of the article is to apply the approach of new institutionalism to the development of the institutional framework for Slovenian regional development policy. In the first part, we present the elementary principles of new institutionalism and its typology, including the three basic types: historical institutionalism, sociological institutionalism, and rational choice institutionalism. We apply the concepts of logic of appropriateness and logic of consequences to explain and understand the stimuli, dynamics and scope of these changes. In Slovenia, one can identify two main phases of institutional adaptation: 1) the architecture of the institutional system for programme administration in the pre-accession period (interpretation and translation of the rules); and 2) editing the established structure for the period of full EU-membership.
new institutionalism; European regional policy; Slovenia; accommodation