时间中的政治: 历史、制度与社会分析

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This groundbreaking book represents the most systematic examination to date of the often-invoked but rarely examined declaration that 'history matters'. Most contemporary social scientists unconsciously take a 'snapshot' view of the social world. Yet the meaning of social events or processes is frequently distorted when they are ripped from their temporal context. Paul Pierson argues that placing politics in time - constructing 'moving pictures' rather than snapshots - can vastly enrich our understanding of complex social dynamics, and greatly improve the theories and methods that we use to explain them. "Politics in Time" opens a new window on the temporal aspects of the social world. It explores a range of important features and implications of evolving social processes: the variety of processes that unfold over significant periods of time, the circumstances under which such different processes are likely to occur, and above all, the significance of these temporal dimensions of social life for our understanding of important political and social outcomes. Ranging widely across the social sciences, Pierson's analysis reveals the high price social science pays when it becomes ahistorical. And it provides a wealth of ideas for restoring our sense of historical process. By placing politics back in time, Pierson's book is destined to have a resounding and enduring impact on the work of scholars and students in fields from political science, history, and sociology to economics and policy analysis. 出版说明 译者的话 致谢 目录 图表索引 导论：把政治放在时间之中 两个例证 社会科学的“历史转向”？ 分析基础 第一章 正反馈与路径依赖 路径依赖与正反馈 “回报递增”和路径依赖的经济学论述 由经济学到政治学 逆转过程的机制 路径依赖与政治研究 一些初步的思考 第二章 时机与次序 时机与时刻 理性选择分析的历史次序 路径依赖论述中的次序 次序论述的特征 结论：考察社会过程的时间秩序 第三章 长期过程 缓慢活动的因果过程 缓慢活动的结果 走出时间界限的焦点 把政治装进象限Ⅰ 第四章 制度设计的限制 政治制度的理性设计 “以行动者为中心的功能主义”的范围与限制 拯救功能主义？评估制度增强机制 制度设计的限制 第五章 制度发展 制度变迁的其他进路 制度弹性和制度发展 理解制度发展 制度发展研究的议程 结论：社会科学研究的时间语境 让时间语境清晰起来 方法与研究设计 理论 参考文献 人名索引