Interest-seeking as sense-making: Ideas and business interests in the new deal

Archives Europeennes de Sociologie

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 277-311

  Münnich, Sascha ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Culture and Politics; Employers Ideology; Ideas and Interests; New Deal; Welfare State

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; ECONOMIC HISTORY; ECONOMIC POLICY; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; IDEOLOGY; INSURANCE SYSTEM; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; SOCIAL SECURITY; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNEMPLOYMENT; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855649611     PISSN: 00039756     EISSN: 14740583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003975611000117     Document Type: Article

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