A Phenomenology of Institutions: Relationality and Governance in China and Beyond by Raul Lejano, Jia Guo, Hongping Lian, & Bo Yin

Abstract

The book, A Phenomenology of Institutions: Relationality and Governance in China and Beyond, is an offshoot of Frameworks for Policy Analysis, a book first published by the Tsinghua University Press in 2006. A Phenomenology of Institutions initially describes some concepts in institution studies. But, reading on, one realizes that the book does not follow the style and thinking of Douglass North and Elinor Ostrom, who examined institutions as a set of rules, nor is it simply about lines of authority typical of the Weberian tradition.