Max Weber and Institutional Theory

1. Introduction to Lepsius’ Concept of Institutional Theory
Claus Wendt

2. Interests and Ideas. Max Weber’s Allocation Problem
M. Rainer Lepsius

3. The Institutionalization and Deinstitutionalization of Rationality Criteria
M. Rainer Lepsius

4. Institutional Analysis and Institutional Policy
M. Rainer Lepsius

5. The Institutionalization of Rationality Criteria and the Role of Intellectuals
M. Rainer Lepsius

6. Modernization Policy Through Institution Building: Criteria of Institutional Differentiation
M. Rainer Lepsius

7. Trust in Institutions
M. Rainer Lepsius

8. Max Weber’s Concept of Charismatic Authority and Its Applicability to Adolf Hitler’s “Führerstaat”
M. Rainer Lepsius

9. From Fragmented Party Democracy to Government by Emergency Decree and National Socialist Takeover: Germany
M. Rainer Lepsius

10. Extreme Nationalism. Structural Conditions of the National Socialist Seizure of Power
M. Rainer Lepsius

11. The “Ethics” of Institutions
M. Rainer Lepsius

12. The Legacy of Two Dictatorships for the Political Culture of a United Germany
M. Rainer Lepsius

13. The Formation of the German Political Culture by Institutional Orders
M. Rainer Lepsius

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Political Sociology, Political Science, Social Theory, Sociology of Culture