Historical institutionalism in comparative politics

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 2, Issue , 1999, Pages 369-404

  Thelen, Kathleen ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical junctures; Institutional change; Path dependency; Policy feedbacks; Rational choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033473433     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.2.1.369     Document Type: Review

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