Testing for a Critical Juncture
Change in the Ictu's Influence over Public Policy in 1959
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6074248 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Hogan (0000-0003-2162-8166, Dublin City University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 271-295 |
| Publication date | 2005-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Irish Political Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0790-7184 • E-ISSN: 1743-9078 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07907180500359343 |
| OpenAlex | W4243725324 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 27 |
This article seeks to improve our understanding of the concept of critical junctures. Critical junctures have been used to provide avenues for exploring change in historical institutionalism. However, the critical junctures concept, as it has developed, lacks rigour. We have no means of saying, with certainty, what is a critical juncture. If we cannot define a critical juncture the issue of path dependency becomes nebulous, as we cannot be certain as to path origins. Over the years the critical junctures concept has been used in conjunction with so‐called watersheds in politics, but without any quantification. This has left the approach in a quandary. Consequently, historical institutionalists have been more inclined to look to other approaches to identify change. Improving upon the critical junctures approach involves specifying standards that enable identification of levels of change. The remoulded approach is employed here in examining change in the Irish Congress of Trade Unions' (ICTU) influence over public policy in 1959. It will identify if this change in the unions' influence over public policy constituted a critical juncture. This example will illustrate how the remoulded approach reduces uncertainty surrounding the issue of what level of change is necessary to constitute a critical juncture. What is more, the remoulded framework is applicable to any social science research concerned with change
Critical path method · Critical theory · Economics · Epistemology · Historical institutionalism · Institutionalism · Juncture · Management · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Rigour · Sociology · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Party systems and voter alignments
Industrialism and industrial man
Critical Elections and Congressional Policy Making
Case Study Research
Building Theories from Case Study Research
Constructing social theories
Politics in Time
Historical institutionalism in comparative politics
Comparative Politics
Negotiating Democracy
Path-Dependent Explanations of Regime Change
Crises and Sequences in Political Development
Economic Growth in Ireland. The Experience Since 1947
Path Dependency and Political Action
Radicalism or Reformism
Political Institutions and Tax Policy in the United States, Sweden, and Britain
When Effect Becomes Cause
The institutional foundations of hegemony
Internationalization, institutions, and political change
The Politics of Structural Change
Altered States
Approaches to the State
Critical Junctures, Labor Movements and the Development of Occupational Welfare in Israel
Historical Sociology and Time
Long-Run Development and the Legacy of Colonialism in Spanish America
Path dependence in historical sociology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2009 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |