New Institutionalism in Political Science

As a kind of political science, new institutionalist politics rose from the study of the traditional political system and introspection on behaviourist revolution. It has re-centered political system in society and claims that no ignorance of political system and underestimate of its function can lead to a comprehensive understanding of the theories of political science. As a frontier science, new institutionalist politics consists of three main theoretical schools: historical institutionalism, rational choice institutionalism and sociological institutionalism. Involving a series of key problems of theories and experiences, it has made an important contribution to people's cognition of the political world, but, at the same time, shows itself a serious limitation.