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Institutional Construction: Reflections on How toResolve Collective Action Dilemmas(PDF)

《南京师大学报》(社会科学版)[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]

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2016年02期
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Research Field:
政治理论与实践:制度建构与实施研究
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Title:
Institutional Construction: Reflections on How toResolve Collective Action Dilemmas
Author(s):
JIN Tai-jun LU Bin
Keywords:
institutional construction collective action reflexivity supporting system
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Abstract:
Given a variety of factors, collective action as a social construction is usually caught in a dilemma. Among the many approaches offered to resolve this dilemma, the one centering on the logic of institutional construction is obviously the most popular choice. Though the institution as a rigid norm can play, among others, normative, strategic and political functions in resolving collective action dilemmas, according to the logic of dialectics, the reflective features such as rigidity, uncertainty, and possibility of choices other than the best and of unreasonable outcomes make it impossible for the institution-based methods to resolve the dilemmas. Therefore, it is inevitable for intuitions to improve themselves. The way out of the logical circle of “resolving institutional defects through institutions” lies in the introduction of some external elements, which should be supported by the mechanisms of theoretical guidance, economic incentives, political identification, and informal institutions. All this will form a comprehensive view on the institutional construction.

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