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Paul Pierson
Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Publications - 76
Citations - 27093
Paul Pierson is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Welfare state. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 76 publications receiving 25598 citations. Previous affiliations of Paul Pierson include Harvard University & Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
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Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conceptualized path dependence as a social process grounded in a dynamic of increasing returns, and demonstrated that increasing returns processes are likely to be prevalent and that good analytical foundations exist for exploring their causes and consequences.
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Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors place politics in time and place it in the context of social science inquiry. But they do not discuss the role of time in the process of institution design.
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The New Politics of the Welfare State
TL;DR: In this article, the authors lay the foundation for an understanding of welfare state retrenchment and highlight the factors that limit or facilitate the success of such a strategy, using quantitative and qualitative data from four cases (Britain, United States, Germany, and Sweden).
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Dismantling the Welfare State?: Reagan, Thatcher and the Politics of Retrenchment
TL;DR: The politics of programmatic retrenchment: as discussed by the authors discusses the logic of retrenchments in a core sector: old age pensions 4. Retrenchment in a vulnerable sector: housing 5. The Embattled Welfare State: 6.
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When Effect Becomes Cause: Policy Feedback and Political Change
TL;DR: The authors suggest that policies generate resources and incentives for political actors, and they provide those actors with information and cues that encourage particular interpretations of the political world, and that these mechanisms operate in a variety of ways, but have significant effects on government elites, interest groups, and mass public.