Institutional Grammar 2.0 Codebook

An institutional statement describes expected actions for actors within the presence or absence of particular constraints, or parameterizes features of an institutional system. Institutional statements convey information that contextualizes their applicability. They vary in prescriptiveness and force, as reflected by the presence of information that more or less strongly compels behavior and by the presence of information that specifies payoffs for compliance, or noncompliance, with statements instructions. Varying in the inclusion of these various kinds of information, institutional statements typically take two functional forms: constitutive and regulative. Constitutive statements constitute features of a system (e.g., actor positions and roles, processes, venues, etc). Regulative statements describe actions linked to specific actors within certain contextual parameters. According to the IG 2.0, institutional statements are commonly comprised of a set of syntactic components, with individual components associating with unique information, and which combine to convey a statement's institutional meaning. Regulative statements are composed of some or all of the following components with the corresponding syntactic labels: (i) an Actor, referred to as an Attribute; (ii) action associated with actor, referred to as an Aim; (iii) action context, referred to as Context; (iv) a receiver of action, referred to as an Object; (v) a prescriptive operator that describes how strongly an action is compelled or restrained, referred to as a Deontic; and (vi) an incentive linked to action, referred to as an Or else. Constitutive statements are composed of some or all of the following components with the corresponding syntactic labels: (i) the entity that is being constituted within a statement, referred to as a Constituted Entity; (ii) an action that constitutes the Constituted Entity, called the Constitutive Function; (iii) the constitution context, referred to as Context; (iv) properties that serve as input to the Constitutive Function, called Constituting Properties; (iv) A prescriptive operator that defines to what extent the action of an institutional statement is compelled, restrained, or discretionary, referred to as a Deontic; and (vi) an incentive linked to action, referred to as an Or else.