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Temporally Recursive Regression and Social Historical Inquiry: An Example of Cross-Movement Militancy Spillover*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2010

Larry Isaac ,
Larry Christiansen ,
Jamie Miller  and
Tim Nickel
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Our focus here is on time-series regression as a formal analytic tool in social historical inquiry. We have three interrelated purposes. First, we argue that conventional time-series regression is typically ill–suited for social historical inquiry because ahistorical assumptions and conventions regarding time undermine the historical character of social “process–as–analyzed”. Second, we present a modified time-series approach – temporally recursive regression – that takes time seriously and provides a more adequate analytic vehicle for social historical inquiry. Finally, we illustrate the promise of temporally recursive regression by using it to analyze how workplace militancy in post–war America was fueled by massive insurgency waves during successive phases of the civil rights movement.

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International Review of Social History , Volume 43 , supplement S6: New methods for social history , December 1998 , pp. 9 - 32
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Copyright © Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis 1998

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