Structuring Politics - Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis

Klappentext These essays demonstrate how the 'historical institutional' approach to the study of politics reveals the nature of institutional change and its effect on policy making. Zusammenfassung These essays demonstrate how the 'historical institutional' approach to the study of politics reveals the nature of institutional change and its effect on policy making. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Historical institutionalism in comparative politics Kathleen Thelen and Sven Steinmo; 2. Labor market institutions and working class strength Bo Rothstein; 3. The rules of the game: the logic of health policy-making in France, Switzerland, and Sweden Ellen Immergut; 4. The movement from Keynesianism to monetarism Peter A. Hall; 5. Political structure, state policy, and industrial change: early railroad policy in the United States and Prussia Colleen A. Dunlavy; 6. Institutions and political change: working class formation in England and the United States, 1820-1896 Victoria C. Hattam; 7. Ideas and the politics of bounded innovation Margaret Weir; 8. The establishment of work-welfare programmes in the United States and Britain: politics, ideas, and institutions Desmond S. King.

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• Authors: Sven Steinmo, Sven (University of Colorado Steinmo, Sven Thelen Steinmo
• Assisted by: Frank Longstreth (Editor), Sven Steinmo (Editor), Kathleen Thelen (Editor), Kathleen Ann Thelen (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.1992
• EAN: 9780521428309
• ISBN: 978-0-521-42830-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education