The eight (8) types of Institutionalism

 NORMATIVE INSTITUTIONALISM is a sociological interpretation of institution

and holds that a “logic of appropriates” guides the behavior of actors within an
institution.
 RATIONAL CHOICE INSTITUTIONALISM is the theoretical approach to the
study of institutions arguing the actors use institutions to maximize their utility.
 HISTORICAL INSTITUTIONALISM is a new social science approach that
emphasizes how timing, sequences, and path dependence affect institutions.
 SOCIOLOGICAL INSTITUTIONALISM is a form of new institutionalism that
concerns the way in which institutions create meaning for individuals, providing
important theoretical building blocks for normative institutionalism within political
science.
 INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS that focuses on understanding the role of the
evolutionary process and the role of institutions in shaping economic behavior.
 DISCURSIVE INSTITUTIONALISM is an umbrella concept for approaches that
concern themselves with the substantive context of ideas.
 CONSTRUCTIVIST INSTITUTIONALISM is so whether the field in questions is
directly denoted as or has to do more with bridging constructivist ideas into some
other fields.
 FEMINIST INSTITUTIONALISM is a new institutionalism approach that looks at
how gender norms operate within institutions and how institutional processes
construct and maintain gender power dynamic .