Neil Bradford has been doing some good work within that framework, which might be worth checking. I think it can offer insights. Having just written a paper on Jenson's (plus collaborators) concept of citizenship regime, however, I think it is more flexible.

Thanks Rianne. I will check out Bradford. I don;t find citizenship regime works for this.

I would like to recommend that you consider the approach of neoinstitutionalism. To which I suggest that you review the following authors:

Douglas North, James G. March, Johann P. Olsen, Paul DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell.

Both theoretical approaches are from social science, but we must remember that institutionalism has a strong influence of German economic school and neoinstitutionalism a strong influence of sociology.

Thank you. 

I am familiar with this literature.

However, I work within the feminist  institutionalism & seek advice on how to draw together 'gender', nationalism within  discusrive institutionalism.

Within institutionalist tradition, it is possible to analyse nationalism from rational choice institutionalist, cultural institutionalist, structural institutionalist or discursive institutionalist. It is a matter of choice. If you prefer to conduct a micro level analysis, rational choice institutionalism could be appropriate, while if you seek large-scale variables, you may adopt stuructural institutionalism.

Thank you,

Unfortunately, the  early neo-institutionalist approaches haven't been open to the incorporation of gender as an analytic category. But I'd appreciate reference to any that have.  It is rather like walking & chewing gum at the same time...are there examles of texts that analyse nationalism within a discursive institutionalist framework and also include gender as an analytic category?

I am especially interested in.  texts working within a  feminist institutionalist  approach..

I can recommend such books as Beth Baron's Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics;  

Adriana Mendez Rodenas' Gender and Nationalism in Colonial Cuba;  

Matthew Evangelista's Gender, nationalism, and war; 

Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd's Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics;  Sheila H. Katz's Women and Gender in Early Jewish and Palestinian Nationalism; Louise Edwards' Women's Suffrage in Asia: Gender, Nationalism and Democracy which all analyse nationalism from gender perspective.

Thank you very much...I knew Baron's work but not the others.  It is likely that one of them may work within discursive institutionalism.