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Beyond Continuity

By Wolfgang Streeck

Beyond Continuity

By Wolfgang Streeck

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Debates surrounding institutional change have become increasingly central to Political Science, Management Studies, and Sociology, opposing the role of globalization in bringing about a convergence of national economies and institutions on one model to theories about 'Varieties of Capitalism'. This book brings together a distinguished set of contributors from a variety to examine current theories of institutional change. The chapters highlight the limitations of these theories, finding them lacking in the analytic tools necessary to identify the changes occurring at a national level, and therefore tend to explain many changes and innovations as simply another version of previous situations. Instead a model emerges of contemporary political economies developing in incremental but cummulatively transformative processes. The contributors shoe that a wide, but not infinite, variety of models of institutional change exist which can meaniingfully distinguished and analytically compared. They offer an empirically grounded typology of modes of institutional change that offer important insights on mechanisms of social and political stability, and evolution generally. Beyond Continuity provides a more complex and fundamental understanding of institutional change, and will be important reading for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Political Science, Management Studies, Sociology and Economics.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
312
Release Date:
2005-05-26
Publication Date:
2005-03-10
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199280452
ISBN13:
9780199280452
Weight:
634 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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