INTRODUCTION TO THE SYMPOSIUM
本文介绍了一个关于文化偏见的制度理论如何应用于公共管理和政策研究，概述了该理论的核心主张、变体及其在专题文章中的应用，并讨论了概念化、操作化和检验该理论的挑战与前景。
This symposium showcases diverse contributions that a particular institutional theory of cultural biases makes to public administration and policy research. Bridging and integrating these subfields, the theory offers powerful explanations for the ways in which institutional processes drive policy‐making. Developed initially by Douglas using Durkheimian theory, Hood and Wildavsky made the theory increasingly influential in public administration and policy. Today, the theory has several variants which nevertheless share common core elements. We briefly survey this institutional theory's contributions to the study of public administration and policy before describing its central claims, analysing the uses of its variants in the symposium articles, and identifying their key advances. We conclude with challenges and promising developments in efforts to conceptualize, operationalize, and test the theory in public administration and policy research.