Discursive Institutionalism: An Alternative Approach

Institutionalism and Discourse theory are the two important paradigms in analysis of social issues. Our finding show that both paradigms have some defects and some similar basis in explanation of social issues, although they use different expressions. The article shows that we can combine these paradigms and provide a better pattern. The idea of combining these paradigms at first offered by Schmidt but this article proposes different approach and provides a better pattern for analysis of social phenomena