Boy Scouts No Longer: A Sociological Institutionalist Analysis of the Canadian Forces

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dc.contributor.authorFitzsimmons, Daniel
dc.contributor.editorFitzsimmons, Scott
dc.contributor.editorMcDougall, Alex
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-18T19:54:32Z
dc.date.available2020-12-18T19:54:32Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractThis paper seeks to explain the process of institutional transformation within the armed forces of a democracy. It offers an ideational explanation for this process, which is grounded in sociological institutionalism. Specifically, it argues that one of the most important and powerful factors that can drive institutional transformation within national armed forces are radical shifts in how senior political decision-makers perceive the appropriate 'institutional role' of their military forces. To illustrate this process, this paper examines the recent and radical transformation of the Canadian Forces, from an institution structured to specialize in peacekeeping operations to an institution structured to specialize in counter-insurgency war fighting.
dc.identifier.issn1480-6339
dc.identifier.issn1480-6385
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/112883
dc.identifier.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/38478
dc.publisher.departmentPolitical Science
dc.publisher.facultyArts
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgary
dc.rights© Innovations: A Journal of Politics 1998-2047
dc.titleBoy Scouts No Longer: A Sociological Institutionalist Analysis of the Canadian Forces
dc.typejournal article
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