Institutional change in cities and regions: a path dependency approach
本文提出一种路径依赖方法，用于理解经济发展背景下地方层面的制度变迁，并通过德国萨尔兰和英国蒂赛德两个城市区域的治理安排比较来阐释该方法。
This article aims to make significant advances in the development of a path dependency approach to understanding institutional change at the subnational level in the context of economic development. This approach allows for a differentiated treatment of various types of institutions. Moreover, the approach can also take account of the structures and processes at various levels of scale, as well as the role of agency in bringing about change. These points are illustrated and developed by an examination and comparison of institutional change in the governance arrangements in the city-regions of Saarland (Germany) and Teesside (United Kingdom) since the 1970s.