- The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Historical Institutionalism in Political Science
- Politics as a Process Structured in Space and Time
- Institutional Change
- Causality and Time in Historical Institutionalism
- Critical Junctures
- Historical Institutionalism and Experimental Methods
- Power in Historical Institutionalism
- Ideas and Historical Institutionalism
- Part III Comparative Politics
- States and Economic Development
- The Development of State Capacity
- Historical Institutionalism and Democratization Studies
- Durable Authoritarianism
- Political Parties, Regimes, and Social Cleavages
- Social Policy in Developing Countries
- Labor in Developing and Post-Communist Countries
- Adaptive Informal Institutions
- Part IV American Politics
- The American State and the Enduring Politics of Race
- Political Parties in American Politics
- Law and Courts
- Social Policy Dynamics
- Citizenship and Race
- Inequality and the Carceral State
- Part V European Politics
- European States in Comparative Perspective
- Institutions and the Consolidation of Democracy in Western Europe
- Historical Institutionalism and the Welfare State
- Durability and Change in Financial Systems
- Capitalism, Institutions, and Power in the Study of Business
- Religion and European Politics
- Supranationalism
- Evolutionary Dynamics in Internal Market Regulation in the European Union
- Part VI International Relations
- The Persistence of State Sovereignty
- The Rise, Character, and Evolution of International Order
- Critical Junctures, Developmental Pathways, and Incremental Change in Security Institutions
- Global Institutions without a Global State
- The Evolution of International Law and Courts
- The Limits of Institutional Reform in the United States and the Global Trade Regime
- Incremental Origins of Bretton Woods
- Sequencing, Layering, and Feedbacks in Global Regulation
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter explores the dual concern with causality and time in historical-institutionalism using a graphical approach. Conceptualizing causes as filters, the chapter analyses three concepts that are central to this field: critical junctures, gradual change, and path dependence. The analysis makes explicit and formal the logic underlying studies that use these “causal-temporal” concepts. The chapter shows visually how causality and temporality are linked to one another in varying ways depending on the particular pattern of change. Through this unifying visual grammar, the chapter also outlines an approach that can accommodate and reconcile both models of critical junctures and gradual change. The chapter provides new tools for describing and understanding change in historical institutional analyses.
Keywords: causality, critical juncture, incremental change, path dependence, reactive sequences
James Mahoney is Gordon Fulcher Professor in Decision-Making in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Political Science of Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Khairunnisa Mohamedali, Ph.D. Northwestern 2014, is the Resident Ethnographer at Idea Couture, Toronto, Canada.
Christoph Nguyen is a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at Southern Denmark University, Odense.
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- The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Historical Institutionalism in Political Science
- Politics as a Process Structured in Space and Time
- Institutional Change
- Causality and Time in Historical Institutionalism
- Critical Junctures
- Historical Institutionalism and Experimental Methods
- Power in Historical Institutionalism
- Ideas and Historical Institutionalism
- Part III Comparative Politics
- States and Economic Development
- The Development of State Capacity
- Historical Institutionalism and Democratization Studies
- Durable Authoritarianism
- Political Parties, Regimes, and Social Cleavages
- Social Policy in Developing Countries
- Labor in Developing and Post-Communist Countries
- Adaptive Informal Institutions
- Part IV American Politics
- The American State and the Enduring Politics of Race
- Political Parties in American Politics
- Law and Courts
- Social Policy Dynamics
- Citizenship and Race
- Inequality and the Carceral State
- Part V European Politics
- European States in Comparative Perspective
- Institutions and the Consolidation of Democracy in Western Europe
- Historical Institutionalism and the Welfare State
- Durability and Change in Financial Systems
- Capitalism, Institutions, and Power in the Study of Business
- Religion and European Politics
- Supranationalism
- Evolutionary Dynamics in Internal Market Regulation in the European Union
- Part VI International Relations
- The Persistence of State Sovereignty
- The Rise, Character, and Evolution of International Order
- Critical Junctures, Developmental Pathways, and Incremental Change in Security Institutions
- Global Institutions without a Global State
- The Evolution of International Law and Courts
- The Limits of Institutional Reform in the United States and the Global Trade Regime
- Incremental Origins of Bretton Woods
- Sequencing, Layering, and Feedbacks in Global Regulation
- Index
