We introduce a collective action model of institutional innovation. This model, based on converging perspectives from the technology innovation management and social movements literature, views institutional change as a dialectical process in which partisan actors espousing conflicting views confront each other and engage in political behaviors to create and change institutions. The model repre...

This article draws on recent progress in economics—especially in the economics of information, property rights, transaction costs, induced innovations, household production, and the theory of the state—to analyze the functions and choices of social institutions, and to consider the mechanism of institutional change. My purpose is to show that institutions provide useful services and that instit...

This paper sheds light on the general mechanisms underlying large-scale social and institutional change. We employ an agent-based model to test the impact of authority centralization and social network technology on preference falsification and institutional change. We find that preference falsification is increasing with centralization and decreasing with social network range. This leads to gr...