Politics in time : history, institutions, and social analysis /

This groundbreaking book represents the most systematic examination to date of the often-invoked but rarely examined declaration that ""history matters."" Most contemporary social scientists unconsciously take a ""snapshot"" view of the social world. Yet the m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pierson, Paul (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press ©2004.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7sgkg
Table of Contents:
  • Positive feedback and path dependence
  • Timing and sequence
  • Long-term processes
  • The limits of institutional design
  • Institutional development
  • Temporal context in social science inquiry.