The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism

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

Orfeo Fioretos, Associate Professor of Political Science, Temple University,Tulia G. Falleti,Class of 1965 Term Associate Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania,Adam Sheingate,Associate Professor of Political Science, The Johns Hopkins University

Orfeo Fioretos is Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University, Philadelphia. He is the author ofCreative 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 International Political Economy, Journal of European Public Policy, andReview 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 ofDecentralization 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 theAmerican Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies,Publius, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Qualitative Sociology.

Adam Sheingate is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of theRise 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 theAmerican Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science,Governance, and Studies in American Political Development. His most recent book, forthcoming from Oxford University Press, is entitledBuilding a Business of Politics: The Rise of Political Consulting and theTransformation of American Democracy.