ABSTRACT
Institutionalism is pervasive in contemporary IPE. Economic/rational choice institutionalism has become central to mainstream research in IPE; regime theory (Keohane 1984), European integration (Moravcsik 1998), trade policies (Rogowski 1989) and foreign investment (Dunning 1988) are some of the subjects that have been studied with the help of economic institutionalism. Similarly historical institutionalism is referred to in the discussion of the state (Halliday 1987; Krasner 1988; Hobson 1997). By contrast, with few notable exceptions, sociological institutionalism is rarely explicitly discussed except as it relates to other forms of institutionalism.
