The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism

Orfeo Fioretos is Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University, Philadelphia. He is the author of Creative 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, and Review 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 of Decentralization 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 the American 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 the Rise 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 the American 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 entitled Building a Business of Politics: The Rise of Political Consulting and the Transformation of American Democracy.

• I. INTRODUCTION ; II. FOUNDATIONS ; III. COMPARATIVE POLITICS ; IV. AMERICAN POLITICS ; V. EUROPEAN POLITICS ; VI. INTERNATIONAL POLITICS