The Oxford handbook of historical institutionalism

Abstract

This volume offers an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the historical institutionalism research tradition in Political Science. Historical institutionalism has steadily expanded its empirical scope and refined its analytical toolbox since it crystallized as a tradition of political analysis during the `new institutionalisms’ debate. The book details the origins and evolution of historical institutionalism, placing particular emphases on the temporal concepts that inform its analytical toolbox, including critical junctures, path dependence, intercurrence, and modes of gradual change.