State and Economy seminar

Reinventing welfare regimes:

Employers and the implementation of active social policy

Cathie Jo Martin is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Boston University. She is the author of
Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politcs of Humane Capital Investment, published in 2000 by Princeton University.

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Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies

Kathleen Thelen is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University

The presentation I will make is going to draw on two recent publications. They are:

Kathleen Thelen, How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States and Japan (Cambridge University Press 2004)

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Wolfgang Streeck and Kathleen Thelen, introduction (chapter 1) of Streeck and Thelen (eds.), Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies (Oxford University Press 2005).