Pierson, P. (1993). When effect becomes cause: Policy feedback and political change. World Politics 45(4): 595–628. doi:10.2307/2950710.
Not read. The summary is drawn from the abstract or from what the work is standardly cited for. A reading should check it first.
Why this is here
The exchange cited it at turn U16 for policy feedback: a measure taken in an emergency builds constituencies and expectations that keep it in place after the emergency. The abstract supports the mechanism in general; the emergency application is the exchange’s. The later path-dependence argument is held as LIT-1372 and read in THEORY-885.