Path Dependence, Sequence, History, Theory

Studies in American Political Development

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 109-112

  Bridges, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0347947756     PISSN: 0898588X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X00213047     Document Type: Review

References (12)

1. Contra Pierson (this volume) and Thelen path dependence is not a theory of technology or technological development. Thelen, "Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics," paper presented at the 1998 American Political Science Associations Meetings.
2. W. Brian Arthur, "Positive Feedback in the Economy," Scientific American 267 (1990): 92-99; and Arthur, "Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-in by Historical Events," The Economic Journal 99 (1989): 116-31. Paul A. David, "Understanding the Economics of QWERTY: The Necessity of History," in Economic History and the Modern Economist, ed. William N. Parker (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986), 30-49.
3. W. Brian Arthur, "Positive Feedback in the Economy," Scientific American 267 (1990): 92-99; and Arthur, "Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-in by Historical Events," The Economic Journal 99 (1989): 116-31. Paul A. David, "Understanding the Economics of QWERTY: The Necessity of History," in Economic History and the Modern Economist, ed. William N. Parker (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986), 30-49.
4. W. Brian Arthur, "Positive Feedback in the Economy," Scientific American 267 (1990): 92-99; and Arthur, "Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-in by Historical Events," The Economic Journal 99 (1989): 116-31. Paul A. David, "Understanding the Economics of QWERTY: The Necessity of History," in Economic History and the Modern Economist, ed. William N. Parker (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986), 30-49.
5. Terry Lynn Karl, The Paradox of Plenty, Oil Booms and Petro-States (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).
6. Thelen argues that institutions are not neutral coordinating mechanisms, but have particular distributional effects ("Historical Institutionalism," 48).
7. Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek, "Beyond the Iconography of Order: Notes for a 'New Institutionalism'," in The Dynamics of American Politics, Approaches and Interpretations, eds. Lawrence C. Dodd and Calvin Jillson (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994), 320.
8. Pierson's further conclusion, that "efforts to build bureaucratic autonomy . . . after democratization . . . were 'too late' makes sense of the U.S. c. 1910, but not much later." See Wallace Sayre and Herbert Kaufman, Governing New York City: Politics in the Metropolis (New York: Russell Sage, 1960).
9. Amy Bridges, "Becoming American: The Working Classes of the United States Before the Civil War", in Ira Katznelson and Ari Zolberg, eds., Working Class Formation: Patterns in the Nineteenth Century United States and Europe (Princeton University Press, 1986).
10. Even the much maligned behavioralists incorporate historical understandings by recognizing generation as a determinant of political sentiment and behavior.
11. Fritz Scharpf, Games Real Actors Play (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997), 29, quoted in Pierson. I recognize this is not what Scharpf meant.
12. Charles Tilly, Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1984), 2.