An organisation or group of norms that exerts governance.
What is the time horizon? What is gradual and sudden change?
the temporal length in which a cause works (p. 221).
What is the source of change? What does endogenous and exogenous mean?
Within the system vs outside it.
An endogenous explanation means that institutional properties generated within this very institution change agents and structural dynamics that cause the institution to change. (p. 221).
Discuss each of the four cells from Gerschewski 2021 (p. 222, table 2) and try to find an example that is not mentioned in the text
Exogenous and short
Economical crisis in S.K.
9/11 attacks changing US security policy and international aviation norms/rules.
Exogenous and long
COVID changing national and international health-oriented policy.
Endogenous and short
Nepal GenZ protests bringing forward a new government.
Endogenous and long
Yugoslavia ethnic setup that eroded national unity and gave way to separatist movements.
Each group will read a text about one country: Option 3→India
Sum up the most important points about the case. What changed and why?
Democratic norms and practices changed because of Modi’s government election in 2014.
Try to assign the case one of the four cells in Gerschewski’s typology. Start by answering these questions:
What is the institution we talk about here?
Democracy.
What are the sources of change?
Modi’s government.
Is the change gradual or sudden? Is the source of the change endogenous or exogenous?
Gradual (since 2014 to 2022).
Endogenous (Modi comes from inside the system and was elected by the very institution that is democracy).
