Agency in Institutional Context: Utilitarian Copyright and Technological Disruption

Madison Cartwright

International Journal of Public Administration, 2021, vol. 44, issue 1, 30-38

Abstract: Different approaches in historical institutionalism have different understandings of how agency relates to its institutional setting. For some scholars, institutions are so restraining that only during times of crisis are agents sufficiently free to pursue change. For others, agents can work within institutions to pursue incremental change. However, even for these more agent-focused approaches, institutions are generally seen as restraining. Drawing on the agents-in-context approach, this article argues that institutions not only shape the preferences of agents but also the means to pursue these preferences. This is illustrated through two cases of technological change, which disrupted copyright law.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2020.1795670

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