Background Following the tenets of world polity and innovation diffusion theories, I focus on the coercive and mimetic forces that influence the diffusion of mental health policy across nations. International organizations’ mandates influence government behavior. Dependency on external resources, namely foreign aid, also affects governments’ formulation of national policy. And finally, mounting...

The question studied here is whether political regimes, dichotomized as democracies and autocracies, a¤ect the rate of growth of employment. But broader issues are at stake. The central claim of ”new institutionalism” is that institutions are the primary cause of economic development. The theoretical program has been laid out by North (1997: 224; italics supplied): ”To make sense out of histori...

The various currents of institutionalism are used in management science, particularly in the area of information systems. Richard Scott's global model is a fertile framework for the analysis of institutional research. First, we will study the contributions of French research to institutionalism. Then, returning to the fundamentals of information systems (IS), we will show that the interaction b...