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Beyond continuity : institutional change in advanced political economies. / edited by Wolfgang Streeck and Kathleen Thelen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: xviii, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0199280452 (alk. paper)
  • 0199280460 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.5/01 22
LOC classification:
  • HB99.5.B488
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Contents:
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.
Summary: "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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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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