Replication Data for: Historical Political Economy: Past, Present, and Future

This dataset comprises data on all articles in the new field of historical political economy (HPE) published in from 2010 to 2021 in eight top journals in political science: the American Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, the Journal of Politics, the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, and World Politics. We define political economy as work that either uses formal theory or empirically tests falsifiable arguments using quantitative methods. We classify work that uses the tools of political economy as HPE if it substantially or exclusively examines politics prior to 1945: the end of the Second World War, the onset of the Cold War, the moment when the Bretton Woods system came into effect, and the start of decolonization in Africa and Asia. We make an exception for China, where important institutional changes occurred after the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949 and the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976. The dataset includes full citation, time period, region and country of study, topic, and keywords. We also code each article as one of three types: work that seeks to understand the past for its own sake, work that uses history as a way to understand the present, and work that uses history as a setting to investigate important theoretical issues.

本数据集收录了2010至2021年间，发表于8种政治科学顶级期刊的历史政治经济学（Historical Political Economy, HPE）新兴领域的全部论文数据，这8种期刊分别为：《美国政治科学杂志》（American Journal of Political Science）、《美国政治科学评论》（American Political Science Review）、《英国政治科学杂志》（British Journal of Political Science）、《比较政治研究》（Comparative Political Studies）、《比较政治学》（Comparative Politics）、《政治学刊》（Journal of Politics）、《政治科学季刊》（Quarterly Journal of Political Science）以及《世界政治》（World Politics）。本研究将政治经济学界定为两类研究：一是运用形式化理论开展的研究，二是采用定量方法对可证伪命题进行实证检验的研究。对于运用政治经济学研究工具的文献，若其研究主体为1945年之前的政治议题（即第二次世界大战结束、冷战开启、布雷顿森林体系生效，以及亚非非殖民化启动这几个时间节点之前的时段），则将其归类为历史政治经济学研究。但针对中国情况设有例外：1949年中华人民共和国成立后及1966至1976年“文化大革命”期间，中国发生了重大制度变革，此类研究可纳入本数据集。本数据集包含完整的引文信息、研究时段、研究区域与国家、研究主题及关键词。此外，本数据集将每篇论文划分为三类：以纯粹理解过往历史为目的的研究、以历史为路径理解当下现实的研究，以及以历史为场景探究重要理论问题的研究。