Elizabeth Sanders

• Cornell University

Historians and social scientists have for years identified the current era as a new capital-dominant Gilded Age on the basis of economic trends (particularly rising inequality, now at a higher peak than in the early twentieth century), the coalescence of political elites (this time on a neoliberal, rather than protectionist agenda), and speculation...

Donald Trump owes his election to post-1972 changes in party institutions and economic developments that were largely the result of presidential policies supported by both parties. Political scientists and pundits who relied on survey data and assumptions about motives and character of Trump supporters failed to understand the deep causes of the 20...

This article studies the context where a new attention to institutional analysis emerged in the social sciences during the 1970s. It also examines the distinctions between historical institutionalism and its closest competitors - rational choice and quantitative cross-sectional analysis - as well as the search for agents of institutional maintenanc...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Cornell University, May, 1978. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 282-292). Photocopy of typescript.