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Path Dependence, Sequence, History, Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2000

Amy Bridges
Amy Bridges
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Abstract

Paul Pierson has undertaken an important theoretical venture for comparative politics, and for social science more broadly. Recognizing the historical turn in the social sciences, and taken with the theoretical power of path dependence, Pierson hopes to generate “portable” mid-range theoretical constructs to align history and social science more closely. Were we to have an armament of arguable hypotheses about timing, sequence, and “temporal processes” our understanding of politics and political development would be much advanced. This is a tempting prospect.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Studies in American Political Development , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , April 2000 , pp. 109 - 112
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© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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