The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism: (Oxford Handbooks)

The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism offers an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the historical institutionalism research tradition in Political Science. Devoted to the study of how temporal processes and events influence the origin and transformation of institutions that govern political and economic relations, historical institutionalism has grown considerably in the last two decades. With its attention to past, present, and potential future contributions to the research tradition, the volume represents an essential reference point for those interested in historical institutionalism. Written in accessible style by leading scholars, thirty-eight chapters detail the contributions of historical institutionalism to an expanding array of topics in the study of comparative, American, European, and international politics.

Table of Contents:
I. INTRODUCTION 1: Orfeo Fioretos, Tulia G. Falleti, and Adam Sheingate: Historical Institutionalism in Political Science II. FOUNDATIONS 2: Peter A. Hall: Politics as a Process Structured in Space and Time 3: Kathleen Thelen and James Conran: Institutional Change 4: James Mahoney, Khairunnisa Mohamedali, and Christoph Nguyen: Causality and Time in Historical Institutionalism 5: Giovanni Capoccia: Critical Junctures 6: Sven Steinmo: Historical Institutionalism and Experimental Methods 7: Paul Pierson: Power in Historical Institutionalism 8: Mark Blyth, Oddny Helgadottir, and William Kring: Ideas and Historical Institutionalism III. COMPARATIVE POLITICS Tulia G. Falleti: Introduction 9: Atul Kohli: States and Economic Development 10: Hillel Soifer: The Development of State Capacity 11: Rodrigo Barrenechea, Edward Gibson, and Larkin Terrie: Historical Institutionalism and Democratization Studies 12: Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way: Durable Authoritarianism 13: Rachel Beatty Riedl: Political Parties, Regimes, and Social Cleavages 14: Melani Cammett and Aytug Sasmaz: Social Policy in Developing Countries 15: Teri L. Caraway: Labor in Developing and Post-Communist Countries 16: Kellee Tsai: Adaptive Informal Institutions IV. AMERICAN POLITICS Adam Sheingate: Introduction 17: Desmond King: The American State and the Enduring Politics of Race 18: Daniel J. Galvin: Political Parties in American Politics 19: Sarah Staszak: Law and Courts 20: Alan M. Jacobs: Social Policy Dynamics 21: Paul Frymer: Citizenship and Race 22: Marie Gottschalk: Inequality and the Carceral State V. EUROPEAN POLITICS Orfeo Fioretos and Tulia G. Falleti: Introduction 23: R. Dan Keleman: European States in Comparative Perspective 24: Sheri Berman: Institutions and the Consolidation of Democracy in Western Europe 25: Julia Lynch and Martin Rhodes: Historical Institutionalism and the Welfare State 26: Richard Deeg and Elliot Posner: Durabilities and Changes in Financial Systems 27: Pepper D. Culpepper: Capitalism, Institutions, and Power in the Study of Business 28: Anna Gryzmala-Busse: Religion and European Politics 29: Tim Büthe: Supranationalism 30: Mark Thatcher and Cornelia Woll: Evolutionary Dynamics in Internal Market Regulation in the European Union VI. INTERNATIONAL POLITICS Orfeo Fioretos: Introduction 31: Stephen D. Krasner: The Persistence of State Sovereignty 32: G. John Ikenberry: The Rise, Character, and Evolution of International Order 33: Etel Solingen and Wilfred Wan: Critical Junctures, Developmental Pathways, and Incremental Change in Security Institutions 34: Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore: Global Institutions Without a Global State 35: Karen J. Alter: The Evolution of International Law and Courts 36: Judith Goldstein and Robert Gulotty: The Limits of Institutional Reform in the United States and the Global Trade Regime 37: Eric Helleiner: Incremental Origins of Bretton Woods 38: Abraham L. Newman: Sequencing, Layering, and Feedbacks in Global Regulation

About the Author :
Orfeo Fioretos is Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University, Philadelphia. He is the author of Creative Reconstructions: Multilateralism and European Varieties of Capitalism After 1950 (Cornell University Press, 2011). His articles on international cooperation, varieties of capitalism, global regulation, and European integration have appeared in International Organization, Comparative Political Studies, Review of International Political Economy, Journal of European Public Policy, and Review of International Studies. Tulia G. Falleti is the Class of 1965 Term Associate Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Decentralization and Subnational Politics in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2010), which earned the Donna Lee Van Cott Award to the best book on political institutions by the Latin American Studies Association. Her articles on federalism, decentralization, authoritarianism, and qualitative methods have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Publius, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Qualitative Sociology. Adam Sheingate is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of the Rise of the Agricultural Welfare State: Institutions and Interest Group Power in the United States, France, and Japan (Princeton University Press, 2001). He has published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Governance, and Studies in American Political Development. His most recent book, forthcoming from Oxford University Press, is entitled Building a Business of Politics: The Rise of Political Consulting and the Transformation of American Democracy.