Five sectors -- Industry-wide collective bargaining : shrinking core, expanding fringes -- Intermediary organization : declining membership, rising tensions -- Social policy : the rise and fall of welfare corporatism -- Public finance : the fiscal crisis of the postwar state -- Corporate...

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)

How can we determine when an existing institutional path or trajectory is ending and being replaced with a new one? How does such a process take place? How can we distinguish between institutional innovation within an existing trajectory and a switchover to a new trajectory or path? This paper...