Understanding change: models, methodologies, and metaphors

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New York: Palgrave-Macmillan (2006)
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Distinguished researchers from across the globe assess, in a rare example of successful cross-disciplinary engagement, the explanatory power of chaos theory, new evolutionary theory, path dependency, neo-institutional economics, multiple modernities and historical institutionalism. The book provides an exciting panorama of state of the art thinking and new avenues to combining the power of various traditions of thought.

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Historical-institutionalism in political science and the problem of change.Ellen M. Immergut
Models, Methodologies, and Metaphors on the Move.  (pages 1-36)Andreas Wimmer
Chaos in social systems: assessment and relevance.  (pages 51--58)L. Douglas Kiel
Analyzing path dependence: lessons from the social sciences.  (pages 129--139)James Mahoney
Path dependence and historical contingency in biology.  (pages 140--157)Eörs Szathmary

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