Institutionalism and new political approaches

Abstract

A recovery of institutionalism was produced after the dominance of behaviorist approaches in the Political Sciences from the late seventies to the beginning of the nineties; this has been called “new institutionalism.” It is something that has somehow been symbolically called the “reincorporation of the State” (Almond, 1985). This State reincorporation is a rather intense phenomenon in the United States in the way that the State never disappeared in its entirety in the European tradition of the Political Sciences. (Peters, 2003); this is particularly true in the Spanish tradition. This article addresses the topic from a historical point of view and its main postulates, reflecting on the institutionality of the State and the new political approaches.

Entorno, december 2014, issue 57: 39-43