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The sovereign state and its competitors
Francis Fukuyama,Hendrik Spruyt +1 more
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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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Social Theory of International Politics
TL;DR: Wendt as discussed by the authors describes four factors which can drive structural change from one culture to another - interdependence, common fate, homogenization, and self-restraint - and examines the effects of capitalism and democracy in the emergence of a Kantian culture in the West.
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Historical institutionalism in comparative politics
TL;DR: The authors provides an overview of recent developments in historical institutionalism and assesses the progress in understanding institutional formation and change, drawing on insights from recent historical institutional work on icritical juncturesi and on ipolicy feedbacks.
Handbook of Economic Sociology
Neil J. Smelser,Richard Swedberg +1 more
TL;DR: The Handbook of Economic Sociology as discussed by the authors is a collection of sociologists, economists, and political scientists from the field of economic sociology with a focus on how economic institutions work and how they are influenced by values and norms.
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Institutions and the path to the modern economy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a multi-disciplinary perspective to study endogenous institutions and their dynamics, including the influence of the past, the ability of institutions to change, and the difficulty to study them empirically and devise a policy aimed at altering them.