Karen Orren
· Distinguished ProfessorUniversity of California, Los Angeles · Political Science
Active 1967–2020
About
Karen Orren is a Distinguished Professor at UCLA in the Department of Political Science. Her academic role includes a focus on political science with a distinguished standing, indicating a significant contribution to her field. As a professor, she is involved in research and teaching within her department, contributing to the scholarly community at UCLA.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Computer Science
- Computer Security
- Economics
- Law
- Law and economics
- Positive economics
- Philosophy
- Horticulture
- Epistemology
- Algorithm
- Economic history
- Management
- Mathematics
Selected publications
7. REPLY TO BURNHAM AND FIORINA
New York University Press eBooks · 2020-12-31
book-chapter1st authorCorresponding4. INSTITUTIONS AND INTERCURRENCE: THEORY BUILDING IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME
New York University Press eBooks · 2020 · 57 citations
1st authorCorresponding- Sociology
- Political Science
- Computer Science
Theorizing about political institutions has taken as its central task the explanation of order and regularity over time. The rationale for this seems so straightforward as to appear almost definitional. Institutions persist through time, organizing poli tics into something more than a seamless flow of activities and events. Carrying forward objectives instilled in them at their time of origin, they infuse their environments with durable norms and predictable rules of action. There is no denying that without institutions stability and continuity would be in short supply. The task of uncovering the historical patterns that institutions establish is a vital one. Our contention, however, is that political scientists have cast their theories too narrowly upon these premises, missing the great paradox inherent in the ordering capacities of institutions. The very tendency of institutions to persist means that at any mo ment in time several different sets of rules and norms are likely to be operating simultaneously.1 To the extent that the idea of order presumes institutions synchronized with one another,
Perspectives on Politics · 2020
1st authorCorresponding- Political Science
- Sociology
- Political Science
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Perspectives on Politics · 2020
1st authorCorresponding- Political Science
- Political Science
- Computer Security
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Perspectives on Politics · 2019-09-23 · 27 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorFaith in the resilience of the US Constitution prompts many observers to discount evidence of a deepening crisis of governance in our day. A long history of success in navigating tough times and adapting to new circumstances instills confidence that the fundamentals of the system are sound and the institutions self-correcting. The aim of this article is to push assessments of this sort beyond the usual nod to great crises surmounted in the past and to identify institutional adaptation as a developmental problem worthy of study in its own right. To that end, we call attention to dynamics of adjustment that have played out over the long haul. Our historical-structural approach points to the “bounded resilience” of previous adaptations and to dynamics of reordering conditioned on the operation of other governance outside the Constitution’s formal written arrangements. We look to the successive overthrow of these other incongruous elements and to the serial incorporation of previously excluded groups to posit increasing stress on constitutional forms and greater reliance on principles for support of new institutional arrangements. Following these developments into the present, we find principles losing traction, now seemingly unable to foster new rules in support of agreeable governing arrangements. Our analysis generates a set of propositions about why the difficulties of our day might be different from those of the past in ways that bear directly on resilience and adaptability going forward.
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2018-02-07
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingBeyond the Iconography of Order: Notes for a “New Institutionalism”
2018-02-06 · 107 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingThis chapter seeks to clarify the case for historically oriented study and indicates the challenge it poses to diverse treatments of institutions found in both political science and history. It argues that this work is new because it brings questions of timing and temporality in politics to the center of the analysis of how institutions matter. The approach is historical because the analysis seeks to recast the basic premise of temporal order that has been the centerpiece of the study of American institutions in all of its incarnations past and present. The chapter reviews the various conceptions of order that have been fundamental to political analysis over the course of our discipline's history. Institutional politics is "politics as usual", "normal politics", or, a politics "in equilibrium". In the field of American politics the study of institutions has advanced through successive reformulations that consider how this ordering function operates.
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2018-02-07
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingCambridge University Press eBooks · 2018-02-07
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingCambridge University Press eBooks · 2018-02-07
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Frequent coauthors
- 38 shared
Stephen Skowronek
- 5 shared
John W. Compton
Chapman University
- 2 shared
Crenson Nelson
University of California, Los Angeles
- 2 shared
Christopher Walker
- 2 shared
Matthew Allen
- 2 shared
Theodore J. Lowi
- 2 shared
Samuel P. Huntington
- 2 shared
Stephen D. Krasner
Stanford University
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