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Historical Institutionalism and the Study of Canadian Politics

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Path dependence has emerged as the most influential concept within today’s historical-institutionalist literature. Historically-minded political scientists have frequently turned their attention on path dependence as this model offers a promising way to rigorously demonstrate how history matters through timing and sequencing. Path dependence is, as Peters, Pierre and King (2005: 1275) have noted, the “central analytic notion…in historical institutionalism” and remains, in the words of Howlett and Rayner (2006: 13), a “…much used, and abused, model of historical sequencing”.

Der Beitrag basiert auf einem Vortrag, der am 3. Oktober 2009 an der Mount Royal University in Calgary gehalten wurde. Das Manuskript wurde gründlich überarbeitet, von einer Übersetzung allerdings abgesehen. Es beinhaltet Ideen, die aus einem laufenden Projekt mit Steffen G. Schneider entstanden sind.

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Broschek, J. (2012). Historical Institutionalism and the Study of Canadian Politics. In: Grasnick, J., Walter, K. (eds) Politik in Nordamerika und Europa. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-19498-1_3

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