New institutionalism as a new theoretical framework for urban political analysis

Abstract

Using new institutionalism as a theoretical framework means focusing on two themes: rules in organizations, and informal links. These two themes might form the theoretical ground for the explanation of the many problems in Belgrade in the 1990s, for example, of illegal building. Instead of an analysis of the rigid structures of communist institutions and inherited weaknesses, the attention will be on the new institutions or more precisely rules and routines created in the new political system, as well as corruption being the most dominant one.