02782cam a22004094a 4500 13761987 OSt 20210414113929.0 041026s2005 enka b 001 0 eng 2004025247 0199280452 (alk. paper) 0199280460 (pbk. : alk. paper) DLC DLC DLC pcc e------ n-us--- HB99.5.B488 338.5/01 22 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. Institutional economics Case studies. Organizational change Europe Case studies. Capitalism Europe Case studies. Organizational change United States Case studies. Capitalism United States Case studies. Streeck, Wolfgang, 1946- Thelen, Kathleen Ann. Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004025247.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0640/2004025247-d.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2004025247-b.html 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 747 8247 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 REF 2012-04-23 0 HB99.5.B488 1835/12 2012-04-23 00:00:00 1 2012-04-23 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 REF 2012-04-23 0 HB99.5.B4881 1836/12 2012-04-23 00:00:00 2 2012-04-23 BK