Historical Context and Path Dependence

The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Mahoney, James ^a   Schensul, Daniel ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual political analysis; Historical context; Historical lock in; Path dependence; Reactive sequence; Self reproducing sequences

Indexed keywords

EID: 85066530133     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199270439.003.0024     Document Type: Chapter

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