Introduction : Institutional change in advanced political economies / Wolfgang Streeck and Kathleen Thelen -- Policy drift : the hidden politics of US welfare state retrenchment / Jacob S. Hacker -- Changing dominant practice : making use of institutional diversity in Hungary and the United Kingdom / Colin Crouch and Maarten Keune -- Redeploying the state : liberalization and social policy in France / Jonah D. Levy -- Ambiguous agreement, cumulative change : French social policy in the 1990s / Bruno Palier -- Routine adjustment and bounded innovation : the changing political economy of Japan / Steven K. Vogel -- Change from within : German and Italian finance in the 1990s / Richard Deeg -- Institutional resettlement : the case of early retirement in Germany / Christine Trampusch -- Contested boundaries : ambiguity and creativity in the evolution of German codetermination / Gregory Jackson -- Adaptation, recombination, and reinforcement : the story of antitrust and competition law in Germany and Europe / Sigrid Quack and Marie-Laure Djelic
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