Since the late 1960s, we have experimented with generation after generation of electronic publishing tools. The Press's enthusiasm for innovation is reflected in our continuing exploration of this frontier. We were among the first university presses to offer titles electronically and we continue to adopt technologies that allow us to better support the scholarly mission and disseminate our content widely. We also highlight the rational and strategic nature of many social construction processes and argue that theoretical progress will only be made by placing attention on the connections between norms and rationality rather than by opposing the two.ДЄmong the largest university presses in the world, The MIT Press publishes over 200 new books each year along with 30 journals in the arts and humanities, economics, international affairs, history, political science, science and technology along with other disciplines. We argue that norms evolve in a three-stage 'life cycle' of emergence, 'norm cascades,' and internalization, and that each stage is governed by different motives, mechanisms, and behavioral logics. We induce from this research a variety of theoretical arguments and testable hypotheses about the role of norms in political change. Recent empirical research on norms, in contrast, has examined their role in creating political change, but change processes have been less well-theorized. Much theorizing about norms has focused on how they create social structure, standards of appropriateness, and stability in international politics. Norms have never been absent from the study of international politics, but the sweeping 'ideational turn' in the 1980s and 1990s brought them back as a central theoretical concern in the field.

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