Beyond Continuity Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies

Debates about institutional change have become central to political science, management studies and sociology. This book examines current theories of change, and brings together a group of contributors from a range of backgrounds.

The chapters argue that these theories lack the analytical tools needed to identify changes at national level, and tend to read new developments as versions of earlier situations. They set this against the Varieties of Capitalism approach and the idea of convergence.

The authors propose that contemporary political economies develop through gradual but cumulatively transformative processes, and that a broad but finite range of models of change can be distinguished and compared. Published by OUP Oxford. ISBN-13: 9780199280469.