Beschreibung:
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.
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.