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Beyond continuity : institutional change in advanced political economies. / edited by Wolfgang Streeck and Kathleen Thelen. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. - xviii, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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.

ISBN: 0199280452 (alk. paper) 0199280460 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2004025247

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Institutional economics--Case studies.
Organizational change--Europe--Case studies.
Capitalism--Europe--Case studies.
Organizational change--United States--Case studies.
Capitalism--United States--Case studies.

LC Class. No.: HB99.5.B488

Dewey Class. No.: 338.5/01