Methodological institutionalism 2.0: From institutions to institutional configurations

Abstract

Svetlana Kirdina (2013) defends the need to develop new version of holism - methodological institutionalism. This paper elaborates on this idea on the basis of comparative analysis of the opposing methodologies and suggests the concept of institutional configurations, i.e. models of interactions of institutions and their stakeholders in concrete economic space. Methodological institutionalism is considered as a methodology for the configuration mesoanalysis of social and economic systems holding intermediate position between holism and institutional individualism. The paper demonstrates the usefulness of the “switching mode” of methodologies between individualism and holism.