MEANING
Relating to established organizations, rules, or patterns that structure social life.
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organizational behavior; governance; durable rules and incentivesLocate an explanation in organizational arrangements or established rules.
Words that belong together
- institutional capacity
- institutional reform
- institutional incentives
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Institutional incentives rewarded the number of inspections rather than their quality.
The reform changed the law but left institutional capacity largely untouched.
An institutional account explains why similar leaders behaved differently under different rules.
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- institutional
Usage notes
Primary category: academic. Not limited to government buildings: institutions can include formal bodies and durable social arrangements. Specify whether an organization or a rule system is meant. Normally non-gradable in this sense; comparison requires a specific contextual scale. Derived family (not inflections): institution, institutionally.
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