Exhibit 1186 ยท Journal article
Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics
particular courses of action, once introduced, can be almost impossible to reverse
Frames path dependence as a process driven by increasing returns, and argues that such processes are likely to be prevalent in politics. ABSTRACT ONLY read (Cambridge Core record); the full text is paywalled and the course-hosted copies found returned errors, so the specific increasing-returns mechanisms are not verified here.
- Source
- Paul Pierson, American Political Science Review 94(2):251-267
- Date
- June 2000
- Quoted from
- Abstract
- Grade
- Peer-reviewed
- Document
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055400221023
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Standing note: standard account of institutional stickiness, mechanism-specific; not every old institution is locked in. Read the full text before attributing the four features (large set-up costs, learning effects, coordination effects, adaptive expectations) to it.