Markets, Institutions, and Politics under Globalization: Industrial Adjustments in the United States and in Germany in the 1990s

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 88-113

  Kwon, Hyeong Ki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Industrial adjustments; Institutionalism; Neoliberals; Politics of multiple rationalities; Reflexivity; United States and German automobile industries

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347933017     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414003260128     Document Type: Review

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