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12/Sep/2011
DOI: 10.1590/1981-3884201100010006
This essay discusses the problem of endogenous institutional change in the context of the new historical institutionalism. It reviews the critique of traditional theorizing on institutional change and offers a comparative analysis of innovative approaches to institutional change on the contemporary agenda of historical institutionalism in comparative political science. The analysis focuses on the logic underlying the conceptual and analytical transformations in the methodological debate of how to expand the explanatory capacity of traditional models by introducing institutional variables in […]
Keywords: Case studies; Comparative political science; Endogenous change; New historical institutionalism: Theory and models; New institutionalism; Theory of institutional change