- 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
Historical institutionalism (HI) has made vital contributions to our understanding of US social policy by addressing a set of interconnected questions. Why does the United States spend so little on public social programs compared to other rich democracies? Why has the US fashioned such distinctive forms of social protection? How has the peculiar design of the American welfare state shaped the politics of social policy? And what have been the distributive consequences of the rightward shift in politics since the 1970s? Through deeply historical accounts of policy development, HI scholars have explained central features of welfare-state politics that prior frameworks had taken as given—including basic power relations in the American political system.
Keywords: social policy, welfare state, American exceptionalism, institutional change, policy feedback
Alan M. Jacobs is Associate Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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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
