Beyond continuity : institutional change in advanced political economies. / edited by Wolfgang Streeck and Kathleen Thelen.
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TextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005Description: xviii, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0199280452 (alk. paper); 0199280460 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Institutional economics -- Case studies | Organizational change -- Europe -- Case studies | Capitalism -- Europe -- Case studies | Organizational change -- United States -- Case studies | Capitalism -- United States -- Case studiesDDC classification: 338.5/01 LOC classification: HB99.5.B488 Online resources: Table of contents only | Publisher description | Contributor biographical information | Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents : Introduction: Instituitional change in advanced political economies -- Policy drift:The Hidden politics of US welfare state retrenchment -- Changing dominant practice: making use of instiutional diversity in Hungary and the United Kingdom -- 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.
"This book examines current theories of institutional change. The chapters highlight the limitations of these theories. Instead a model emerges of contemporary political economies developing in incremental but cumulatively transformative processes"--Provided by publisher.
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