III. Approaches to institutionalism (continued) E. Empirical 21. Institutions, veto points, and policy results: A comparative analysis of helth care - Ellen M. Immergut 22. Assessing the effects of institutions - R. Kent Weaver and Bert A. Rockman 23. Democracies: forms, performance, and constitutional engineering - Arend Lijphart 24. Instituions and environmental performance in seventeen western democracies - Lyle A. Scruggs f. Sociological 25. Institutionalized organizations: formal structure as myth and ceremony - John W. Meyer and Brian Rowan 26. Prolegomena to a theory of social institutions - Talcott Parsons 27. Commentary: social institutions and social theory - James S. Coleman 28. The iron cage revisited: institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields - Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell 29. Economic institutions as social constructions: A framework fo analysis - Mark Granovetter 30. Path dependence in historial sociology - James Mahoney G. Economics 31. Shared mental models: Ideologies and instituions - Arthur T. Denzau and Douglass C. North 32. Bounded rationality, institutions, and uncertainty - David Dequech 33. On the evolutionary character of north's idea of institutional change - Michel Zouboulakis IV. Institutional theory and specific institutions If institutionalism is to make a major contribution to political science it must be applicable to a wide range of political phenomena. This section will examine how institutional theories have been used in a variety of settings, and gain some sense of the power of the theory from examining these applications. Introduction - B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre A. Legislatures 34. The institutionalization of the U.S House of representatives - Nelson W. Polsby 35. Legislative institutionalization: A bent analytical arrow? - David Judge 36. The power of the European parliament as a conditional agenda setter - George Tsebelis B. Political executives 37. The institutionalization of the American Presidency, 1924-92 - Lyn Ragsdale and John J. Theis 38. Governmentalizing central executives in post-communist Europe: A four-country comparison - Klaus H. Goetz and Hellmut Wollmann C. Bureaucracy 39. How bureaucratic structure matters: an organizational perspective - Morten Egeberg 40. Modeling operational decision making in public organizations: An integration of two institutional theories - Tanya Heikkila and Kimberley Roussin Isett