"Collectors and institutions shaped the canon," she said.
They offer two main accounts of how institutions shape behaviour.
Whatever a nominee's origins might be, does attending the same institutions shape them and their views, even subtly?
As Iran illustrates, they don't work: Republican institutions, shaped by the wishes of men and women, fall victim to the Islamic superstructure, supposedly shaped by God.
Another researcher examined the ways in which prior political institutions shaped the structure of the railroad industry in the United States, France, and Britain.
Rational choice institutionalists examine how institutions shape the behaviour of rational actors by creating expectations about the likely consequences of given courses of action.
But the element that has caught forecasters most off-guard this year has been a more fundamental change — a seeming decline in the predictability of politics because of a shift in how institutions shape outcomes.
"In a Different Key" is a story about autism as it has passed through largely American institutions, shaped not only by psychiatrists and psychologists but by parents, schools, politicians, and lawyers.
David Essing Boston, Jan . 27 , 2009 To the Editor: David Brooks discusses the political scientist Hugh Heclo's views about how institutions shape our lives in contrast to what many believe is the purpose of liberal education, namely, to develop our individual capacities for critical thinking, self-discovery and personal happiness.
It's good to talk, as Salmond quipped the other day - but it's also good to feel as if your generation might be fully in charge of effective, global-standard institutions, shaped by the reforming perspective of one's own country and culture.
