The New Institutionalism incorporates several approaches of institutional analysis from several social sciences. Among these approaches, the New Institutional Economics has propelled several advances in contemporaneous institutional analysis. Methodological pluralism has characterized this...

Comparative case studies involve the analysis and synthesis of the similarities, differences and patterns across two or more cases that share a common focus or goal in a way that produces knowledge that is easier to generalize about causal questions – how and why particular programmes or...

Social scientists are producing an ever growing stream of research findings, which is ever more difficult to oversee. As a result, capitalization on earlier investment declines and accumulation of knowledge stagnates. This situation calls for more research synthesis and interest in synthetic...