... Black political participation had been thwarted at the state level. Aligning with the framework that race is a political construction (Roberts, 2011), the expansion of schools as a place of Black equality was the textbook definition of the expansion of the citizen-subject. The accepted history...

...Tracy Dennison Historians and social scientists inhabit increasingly separate academic worlds. At the same time, history is assuming a more prominent role in quantitative social science, especially among researchers interested in economic growth and development over the long run. In this paper I...

...Sean Gailmard In this short paper I offer conceptualizations of history, theory, and their interplay under the aegis of political economy. My primary argument is that historical political economy (HPE) depends on theory for its success. First, notwithstanding empirical causal...

... history into the mainstream of social science. We argue, however, that some of the persistence literature has overcorrected for past oversights. We select canonical persistence studies to illustrate some common pitfalls in the literature and discuss potential ways around them. These include the failure...