Abstract
Grafstein offers critiques of the conventional arguments, challenging their view that institutions are human creations automatically reformed or replaced as society's beliefs and preferences dictate. He argues that institutions are distinct physical entities not subject to human authorization.
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Subject (documents)PoliticsRealismAuthorizationPolitical scienceEpistemologySociologyLaw and economicsLawComputer sciencePhilosophyComputer security
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- 1992
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Robert Grafstein
(1992).
Institutional Realism: Social and Political Constraints on Rational Actors.
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