• To a degree insufficiently captured by the term governance, the present age is one of institutional complexity. China is a case in point. An amalgam of socialist, capitalist, corporatist, and pluralist characteristics, China's systems of governance defy classification using extant categories in the institutionalist literature. What, after all, is a socialist market system? A Phenomenology of Institutions begins with the problem of describing emergent institutional phenomena using conventional ty…Read more
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    Technology and Institutions: A Critical Appraisal of GIS in the Planning Domain
    Science, Technology, and Human Values 33 (5): 653-678. 2008.
    GIS has captured planning practice to an unprecedented degree, and this article on how it reconfigures and is configured by institutional context. The author inquires into GIS as a technology for incorporating knowledge into institutional use and includes five propositions: GIS's efficiencies in data processing allows it unprecedented facility and scope of analysis, its use increases alienation, its mimetic language furthers its role in planning, its logic appears rational—purposive, but it conc…Read more
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    Problematizing the people power revolution
    Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture 10 (1): 71-110. 2006.
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    Towards a Topological Concept of Rationality
    Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture 6 (2): 245-255. 2002.