caa a22 4500 386378797 CHVBK 20180307112032.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S000842390000086X doi S000842390000086X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S000842390000086X Selecting Policy Instruments: Neo-Institutional and Rational Choice Interpretations of Automobile Insurance in Ontario [Elektronische Daten] The rational choice model of politics, which construes important political processes as a series of choices taken by self-interested political actors, has dominated theorizing on the subject of policy instruments in Canada. While useful, this approach is nonetheless limited by its narrow conception of rationality and its inattention to the context of instrument choice. As an alternative, the neo-institutional approach offers a perspective on political choice that takes better account of contextual and organizational factors. In this article, the logic of both approaches is used to explain the policy process in the case of automobile insurance in Ontario. The purpose of this exercise is exploratory, not confirmatory. Both approaches do, in fact, offer plausible explanations for the creation of a rate review board, the retention of fault-liability as the basis of compensation and the apparent rejection of public automobile insurance. However, the study concludes that it is essential that research strategies in the realm of instrument choice incorporate insights from the neo-institutional approach. Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1989 Atkinson Michael M. McMaster University Nigol Robert A. McMaster University Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 22/1(1989-03), 107-135 0008-4239 22:1<107 1989 22 CJP https://doi.org/10.1017/S000842390000086X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S000842390000086X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Atkinson Michael M. McMaster University NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nigol Robert A. McMaster University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 22/1(1989-03), 107-135 0008-4239 22:1<107 1989 22 CJP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge