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Actor-centered Institutionalism: Exploring the Interaction Effect in Policy Process

LI Wen-zhao   

  1. School of Public Administration and Policy, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
  • Received:2020-02-20 Online:2020-05-25 Published:2020-06-04

Abstract: Actor-centered institutionalism in policy research was initially put forward by German scholars Fritz Sharpf and Renate Mayntz, and it was developed by Sharf into one important theory of policy process. This theory assumes that social reality can be interpreted as the result of interaction, carried out in a structured environment, of purposeful actors, including individuals, collective and corporate actors, and the interaction results are shaped by their institutional settings. The effectiveness and legitimacy of public policy, as well as the policy process of their guarantee have been the ultimate issues of this study. Actors, actor cluster, interaction mode, and system become the elements of this framework and theory, among which interaction mode is its core content, with four types: unilateral action, negotiation agreement, majority decision-making, and hierarchical order. The organic combination of actors and institutions will be the forward direction of institutional theory. China’s policy process and governance process will provide a broader space for the application, testing and expansion of the theory, and in this process we will form a sense of theoretical development.

Key words: actor-centered institutionalism, policy process, actors, interactive mode, Chinese context

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