What makes organizations so similar? We contend that the engine of rationalization and bureaucratization has moved from the competitive marketplace to the state and the professions. Once a set of organizations emerges as a field, a paradox arises: rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them. We describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative—leading to this outcome. We then specify hypotheses about the impact of resource centralization and dependency, goal ambiguity and technical uncertainty, and professionalization and structuration on isomorphic change. Finally, we suggest implications for theories of organizations and social change.

The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (Chinese Translation)

The Political Consciousness of Post-Industrialism@@@The Silent Revolution: Changing Values and Political Styles among Western Publics.

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Dismantling the Welfare State? Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Retrenchment

The Future of the Capitalist State

1. From the impossible to the inevitable 2. The tide and the mobilizational cycle 3. Structuring nationalism 4. 'Thickened' history and the mobilization of identity 5. Tides and the failure of nationalist mobilization 6. Violence and tides of nationalism 7. The transcendence of regimes of repression 8. Russian mobilization and the accumulating 'inevitability' of Soviet collapse 9. Conclusion: nationhood and event.

Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State: STRUCTURING NATIONALISM

Commercial consultancies in the realm of public affairs and interest intermediation have become an important player within the European Union. This paper presents findings from a survey of commercial interest intermediation. It illustrates that the business has grown and established itself gradually as an accepted and legitimate route of monitoring and influencing European policy-making. Moreover, we perceive that a certain integration and concentration of the business is under way at the European and global level. It is argued that these developments have an impact on European interest intermediation, first, because this business makes public affairs and interest intermediation more systematic, plural and competitive, and, second, because the business serves as an interface between European and global, internal and external affairs.

Commercial consultancies in the European Union: the shape and structure of professional interest intermediation

Pierre Bourdieu, Über den Staat. Vorlesungen am Collège de France 1989–1992, aus dem Französischen von Horst Brühmann und Petra Willim. Berlin: Suhrkamp 2014, 723 S., gb., 49,95 €

Lahusen C, Schulz N, Graziano PR. Promoting social Europe?The development of European youth unemployment policiesSince the beginning of the millennium, the institutions of theEuropean Union have intensiﬁed their political efforts tocombat youth employment. Youth-speciﬁc policy initiativeswere launched after the ﬁnancial and economic crisis of 2008,and the overall subsequent rise of unemployment rates amongyoung people. In this article, we analyse and assess thesedevelopments on the basis of an analysis of European policydocuments and interviews. Our conclusions are twofold. One,we argue that the Europe 2020 Strategy and its ﬂagship ini-tiatives devoted to youth do not constitute a new policy ﬁeld orapproach, but are rather the outcome of an incrementalistlogic of policy development. Two, the European youth strat-egy is clearly committed to activation, and it pushes policydevelopments towards a minimalist policy approach of pre-carious protection. Both developments are explained by theactor constellations and path dependencies of the Europeanpolicy arena.Christian Lahusen

Promoting social Europe? The development of European youth unemployment policies

Mobilization by the unemployed was long considered highly improbable. The obstacles have been abundantly outlined in the literature and related to powerful forces of social and political atomization (Richards 2002). First of all, we are dealing with a very heterogeneous group of people with different biographies, diverse interests, and a range of identities and belief-systems. Mobilization is further hindered by the public stigmatization of the unemployed (Piven and Cloward 1977). This stigma impedes the formation of collective mobilizations and leads rather to social isolation (Wolski-Prenger 1996). Moreover, the job insecurity of the unemployed complicates the formation of stable networks, memberships, and organizations. Finally, scholars tend to argue since the path-breaking Marienthal study (Jahoda, Lazarsfeld and Zeisel 1971 [1933]) that unemployment, particularly long-term joblessness, drives individuals into apathy and fatalism, and leads to the erosion of social capital (e.g. trust, personal contacts, and organizational memberships). Most scholars have taken these sociological and psychological features and consequences of unemployment for granted and have thus tended to argue that the collective mobilization of the jobless is either improbable or even impossible. However, at least in the light of the recent rise of collective action by the unemployed in Europe, such analyses require substantial qualification.

https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/sozialwissenschaften/soziologie/mitarbeiter/lahusen/pdf-files/beyond_marginalization.pdf

Transcending Marginalization: The Mobilization of the Unemployed in France, Germany, and Italy in a Comparative Perspective

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Christian Lahusen

Papers

Commercial consultancies in the European Union: the shape and structure of professional interest intermediation

Pierre Bourdieu, Über den Staat. Vorlesungen am Collège de France 1989–1992, aus dem Französischen von Horst Brühmann und Petra Willim. Berlin: Suhrkamp 2014, 723 S., gb., 49,95 €

Promoting social Europe? The development of European youth unemployment policies

Transcending Marginalization: The Mobilization of the Unemployed in France, Germany, and Italy in a Comparative Perspective

Bürgerschaft, Öffentlichkeit und Demokratie in Europa