▪ Abstract This article provides an overview of recent developments in historical
institutionalism. First, it reviews some distinctions that are commonly drawn between the …

Historical institutionalism has steadily expanded its empirical scope and refined its analytical
toolbox since it crystallized as a tradition of political analysis during the “new …

Historical institutionalist theories of endogenous change have enhanced our understanding
of institutional development by providing a theoretical vocabulary for analyzing how …

This chapter traces developments in historical institutionalist approaches to institutional
change. Originally, historical (like rational choice and sociological) institutionalism focused …

Some of the most fruitful insights generated by social science in recent decades flow from
explorations of how institutions, understood as sets of regularized practices with a rule-like …

Until recently, institutionally minded scholars in the social sciences generally treated
institutions as fixed. Whether defined as the rules of the political game, the standard …

This essay explores the question of how formal institutions change. ¹ Despite the importance
assigned by many scholars to the role of institutions in structuring political life, the issue of …

The conventional critique of institutional theory, and especially historical institutionalism, is
that it is incapable of coping with change. We argue for the importance of political conflict as …

The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism offers an authoritative and accessible
state-of-the-art analysis of the historical institutionalism research tradition in Political …

This article studies the context where a new attention to institutional analysis emerged in the
social sciences during the 1970s. It also examines the distinctions between historical …