Conceptualizing Continuity and Change

Conceptualizing Continuity and Change

Political scientists studying institutional development face the challenge of accounting for both continuity and change over time. Models of path dependence based on increasing returns, inspired by the example of the QWERTY typewriter keyboard, have played an important role in the analysis of institutional continuity, but they have been criticized for their inability to accommodate change. In t...

Stroke: continuity and change.

Stroke has never been as challenging or as exciting. An aging population and the westernization of the world will yield increasing numbers of stroke patients. At the same time, growing recognition and expanding knowledge will enable us to do something about it. Awareness is a necessary prelude to action, and already much can be done to prevent and treat stroke. Organized stroke care, centered a...

Continuity and Change

a numerical relationship (Bode's Law). The visible stars, largely aggregated in a circumferential view as the " milky way," are a teeming multitude in various stages of evolution, self-luminous. They are suns, perhaps with non-luminous worlds rotating round them. The spectra of the stars comprise three groups : (i) Those in which hydrogen, helium, and magnesium are prominent, hydrogen predomina...

Conceptualizing cultures of violence and cultural change

Conceptualizing cultures of violence and cultural change

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