Beyond Comparative Statics: Historical Institutional Approaches to Stability and Change In the Political Economy of Labor

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Thelen, Kathleen ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capitalism; Comparative statics; Labour market; Political economy; Pragmatic constructivist

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923609454     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199233762.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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