No. 20: The deinstitutionalization of politics
Articles

Institutions. Rules and processes

María Teresa López de la Vieja de la Torre
Universidad de Salamanca
Published July 23, 2019

Keywords:

Institutionalization, deinstitutionalization, system of rules, normativity, legitimation
How to Cite
López de la Vieja de la Torre, M. T. (2019). Institutions. Rules and processes. Bajo Palabra, (20), 51–64. https://doi.org/10.15366/bp2019.20.003

Abstract

Institutions are a manifestation of power. According to H. Arendt, a second aspect has to be considered; institutions could decay and even petrify when the living power, the people´s power, doesn’t uphold them. The recent crisis in the national and the international political sphere, could derive from insufficient backing of power in institutional systems. However, their erosion would depend on several factors, not only of the “living power”, as H. Arendt stated. Deinstitutionalization processes are complex phenomena and, consequently, they require several levels of analysis: (1) institutions perform integration functions, articulating reciprocal expectations of agents, (2) as systems of rules, institutions define rights and duties (3) the role of “constitutive rules”. In general, the normativity or deontic power of public systems of rules has to be taken into account.

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