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Rediscovering Institutions: The
March, James G., and Johan P. Olsen. Rediscovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of Politics. New York: Free Press, 1989.
Why this matters here
March and Olsen’s Rediscovering Institutions argues that political life is organized by institutions, rules, and logics of appropriateness—not only by aggregating individual preferences toward outcomes. When Authority Outlives Accountability uses that institutional lens to hold morality, effectiveness, and inheritance together as dimensions no single outcome score can replace. The source reframes politics as institutional; the book asks why leadership that looks similar on the surface diverges so sharply over time.
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