Veblen theorized institutional persistence and developed several mechanisms of change, including conflict between institutions, exogenous shocks, and the interplay between routines and the variable and volatile action of agents.
The purpose is to understand the mechanisms of cultural and institutional persistence, transmission, and change.
González's book manuscript, Authoritarian Coercion by Democratic Means: The Paradox of Police Reform in Latin America, probes the persistence of violent, corrupt, and unaccountable police institutions, and the political and social drivers of institutional continuity and change.
Through an evaluation of the relative balance between institutional continuity and change, social-ecological systems may be typified in a state of persistence (continuity > change), adaptation (continuity ~ change) or transformation (continuity < change) (Herrfahrdt-Pahle and Pahl-wostl 2012).
Her findings suggested that, indeed, institutional characteristics affect persistence as evidenced by higher student persistence rates at institutions with higher proportions of undergraduate students versus graduate students.
In such a challenging field, this volume is a rare achievement: it combines analytical depth and methodological innovation with a thematic breadth that weaves together institutional origins, intergenerational persistence, spatial perspectives, and policy options.
At the institutional level, the persistence of workplace discrimination along the lines of race, ethnicity and class is framed as part of a set of social dominance processes operating to keep power and resources in the hands of high status social groups, such as the White and wealthy in the USA (Sidanius and Pratto, 1999).
Oppressed by institutional life, the ghastly persistence of Nazi jargon and what some Germans called demokratur (elective dictatorship under the tutelage of Konrad Adenauer), he keeps reminding himself that he is really a "reader and devotee of contemporary poetry".
He blamed that lack of diversity on a "self-perpetuating … persistence of institutional racism" in the industry, adding that "it feels like people are preserving privileges, or it's habit or laziness or indifference". But he also worried about "socially engineering" the academy on the belief that new members would solely vote alongside gender or racial lines.
What are African-American organizations and communities doing to resist the persistence of institutional racism and structural inequality?
"Even more remarkable is the lack of a sign of any decline in status persistence across major institutional changes, such as the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century, the spread of universal schooling in the late 19th century, or the rise of the social democratic state in the twentieth century".
