In Peter Hall and Rosemary Taylor's essay titled "Political Science and the Three New Institutionalism's" the authors aim to identify what the new institutionalism is and how we can identify it. The author's start off by describing how there are three key different approaches to how we can begin to understand what the new institutionalism is and that we can only understand it through the context of three separate elements. ... Retrospectively, each school of thought has remained separate from the other, and the authors argue that it is high time we integrate the three ...

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.'6 It seems then, that democracy, in its official, parliamentary form, faced a colossus of constitutional opposition, perhaps originating from the fact that the authors of the Meiji Constitution had laid down the foundations of a modern state which 'was inevitably absolutist, counter-revolutionary, and imperialistic'.7 This was not, however, where the political shortcomings of the Diet ended. ...

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