The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism

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 InternationalPolitical 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 a 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 is Building aBusiness of Politics: The Rise of Political Consulting and the Transformation of American Democracy (OUP, 2016).

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 anexpanding array of topics in the study of comparative, American, European, and international politics.

This volume offers an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the historical institutionalism research tradition in Political Science.

I. INTRODUCTION