2010/01/01 by Johannes Marx, Marx, Johannes
Business, Management and Accounting · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Analyse #Eigentumsrecht #GATT #Geschichtswissenschaft #Innovation Policy and R&D #Intellectual Property and Patents #Methodologie #Patent #Pfadabhängigkeit #Politikwissenschaft #Private Equity and Venture Capital #Sozialwissenschaft #Theorie #UNO #Urheberrecht #WTO #analysis #copyright #geistiges Eigentum #institutional change #institutioneller Wandel #intellectual property #international organization #international relations #internationale Beziehungen #internationale Organisation #methodology #patent #path dependence #political lawsuit #political science #politischer Prozess #right of ownership #science of history #social science #sociological theory #soziologische Theorie #supranational relations #supranationale Beziehungen #theory
paper · pdf · doi:10.12759/hsr.35.2010.3.175-199
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In the last decade the historic dimension of politics has become more and more important in political science. There are a growing number of articles dealing with questions of political dynamics and political processes. Nevertheless, the interdisciplinary dialogue is rare between history and political science. This article examines first the characteristics of both disciplines and asks for a common methodological ground analyzing political processes. It is argued that the analysis of political processes should be theory-driven, looking for social mechanisms like path dependency and based on agency. The usefulness of this method will be demonstrated by analyzing the international regulation of Intellectual Property Rights. It will be reasoned that external changes in the environment of the international institutions (WIPO and GATT) triggered changes in the development of the path along which the protection of IPRs evolved and switched the modus of institutional change from path dependency to open change and vice versa.