TY  - BOOK
AU  - Streeck,Wolfgang
AU  - Thelen,Kathleen Ann
TI  - Beyond continuity : institutional change in advanced political economies.
SN  - 0199280452 (alk. paper)
AV  - HB99.5.B488  
U1  - 338.5/01 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Institutional economics
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Organizational change
KW  - Europe
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - United States
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004025247.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0640/2004025247-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2004025247-b.html
ER  -