Why history (still) matters: Time and temporality in urban political analysis

Urban Affairs Review

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-36

  Rast, Joel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

institutional conversion; institutional layering; path dependence; policy drift; policy feedback

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; POLITICAL HISTORY; THEORETICAL STUDY; URBAN HISTORY; URBAN POLICY;

EID: 84055224129     PISSN: 10780874     EISSN: 15528332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078087411418178     Document Type: Article

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