Beyond Continuity Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies

Name: Beyond Continuity Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies
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ISBN: 9780199280469

ISBN-10: 0199280460

ISBN-13: 9780199280469

Edition: 2005

Authors: Wolfgang Streeck, Kathleen Thelen

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Debates surrounding institutional change have become increasingly central to Political Science, Management Studies, and Sociology, opposing the role of globalization in bringing about a convergence of national economies and institutions on one model to theories about 'Varieties of Capitalism'. This book brings together a distinguished set of contributors from a variety of disciplines to examine current theories of institutional change. The chapters highlight the limitations of these theories, finding them lacking in the analytic tools necessary to identify the changes occurring at a national level, and therefore tend to explain many changes and innovation as simply another version of…

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List price: $68.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/12/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface




Introduction: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies




Policy Drift: The Hidden Politics of US Welfare State Retrenchment




Changing Dominant Practice: Making Use of Institutional Diversity in Hungary and the UK




Redeploying the State: Liberalization and Social Policy in France




Ambiguous Agreement Cumulative Change: French Social Policy in the 1990s




Routine Adjustment and Bounded Innovation: The Changing Political Economy of Japan




Change from Within: German and Italian Finance in the 1990s




Institutional Resettlement: The Case of Early Retirement in Germany




Contested Boundaries: Ambiguity and Creativity in the Evolution of German Codetermination




Adaptation, Recombination and Reinforcement: The Story of Antitrust and Competition Law in Germany and Europe