Historical Political Economy
Past, Present, and Future
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232944 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Volha Charnysh (0000-0002-5089-3818, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Eugene Finkel (Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC, USA;), Scott Gehlbach (0000-0002-9689-0145, University of Chicago) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 175-191 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-polisci-051921-102440 |
| OpenAlex | W4311067272 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 80 |
A recent wave of research in political science examines the past using statistical methods for causal inference and formal theory—a field widely known as historical political economy (HPE). We examine the development of this field. Our survey reveals three common uses of history in HPE: understanding the past for its own sake, using history as a way to understand the present, and using history as a setting to explore theoretical conjectures. We present important work in each area and discuss trade-offs of each approach. We further identify key practical and analytical challenges for scholars of HPE, including the accessibility of data that do exist and obstacles to inference when they do not. Looking to the future, we see improved training for scholars entering the field, a heightened focus on the accumulation of knowledge, and greater attention to underexplored topics such as race, gender, ethnicity, and climate change
Causal inference · Data science · Economics · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Field (mathematics · Inference · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Race (biology · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Studies · Law · Political Conflict and Governance
Meritocracy and Autocratic Power-Sharing
Past stateness, present strength
Civil wars as critical junctures
Navigating the Landscape of Party Archives
Introduction to the Special Issue on Eurasian Continuities
Beyond body counts
Legacies of Repression and Resistance in Early 20 th Century Europe
Echoes of the Past
Sources of Authoritarian Resilience
Endogenous State Capacity
The chronospatial revolution in psychology
Modeling Spatial Heterogeneity and Historical Persistence
Fixed Effects and Post-Treatment Bias in Legacy Studies
Political Order in Changing Societies
The Methodology of Experimental Economics
The Land Scape of History
The ‘reversal of fortune’ thesis and the compression of history
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development
The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy
Crucibles of Political Loyalty
Communism's Shadow
Cultural vs. economic legacies of empires
Conceptualizing Historical Legacies
Labor scarcity, land tenure, and historical legacy
Context is Everything
Imperial Politics, English Law, and the Strategic Foundations of Constitutional Review in America
A Rational Theory of the Size of Government
The Nature of the Firm
The Historical Turn in Democratization Studies
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Reform and Rebellion in Weak States
Landowners and Democracy
Why the West Became Wild
Electoral Consequences of Colonial Invention
From Conquest to Centralization
Congressional Candidates in the Era of Party Ballots
Democratization as a Continuous Choice
How the West Was Won
The Political Legacy of American Slavery
From Political Mobilization to Electoral Participation
The Electoral Impact of Newly Enfranchised Groups
Democratization and Linguistic Complexity
The Most Important Topic Political Scientists Are Not Studying
Lines of Demarcation
Colonial Legacies and State Institutions in China
Historical Legacies of Interethnic Competition
Indirect Colonial Rule Undermines Support for Democracy
From Open to Secret Ballot
Unfinished Business
The Secret Ballot and the Market for Votes at 19th-Century British Elections
Labor Shortages, Rural Inequality, and Democratization
The Partisan Path to Democracy
Dead But Not Gone
Historical Persistence
The Return of the Single-Country Study
Imperial Governance and the Growth of Legislative Power in America
The Legacy of Political Violence across Generations
The Role of Communities in the Transmission of Political Values
Destined for Democracy? Labour Markets and Political Change in Colonial British America
The Shadow Cabinet in Westminster Systems
The Politics of Procedural Choice
The Political Economy of Imperialism, Decolonization and Development
The Problem of History
Reading History Forward
Why Monarchy? The Rise and Demise of a Regime Type
Does Reform Prevent Rebellion? Evidence From Russia's Emancipation of the Serfs
The New Institutional Economics
How Do Campaign Spending Limits Affect Elections? Evidence from the United Kingdom 1885-2019
The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics
Office-Selling, Corruption, and Long-Term Development in Peru
The Non-Democratic Roots of Mass Education
Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide
No Strength in Numbers
The Death Camp Eldorado
Does Combat Experience Foster Organizational Skill? Evidence from Ethnic Cleansing during the Partition of South Asia
Newspapers and Parties
Swords and Plowshares
Building a New Imperial State
Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies
Mass Repression and Political Loyalty
Seeing Like a State
The Ulysses Principle
Comparative-Historical Methodology
States and Social Revolutions
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |