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Socio-Economic Review 2005 3(3):559-567; doi:10.1093/SER/mwi024
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Institutionalists at the limits of institutionalism: a constructivist critique of two edited volumes from Wolfgang Streeck and Kozo Yamamura

Gary Herrigel

Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, 5828 S. University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

Correspondence: E-mail: g-herrigel{at}uchicago.edu

The two books under review are terrific and amount, essentially, to benchmarks for any future scholarship on adjustment in Germany and Japan (especially in Germany). In what follows, I will briefly praise and then, in a more extended manner, criticize the volumes and the perspective on change in Germany and Japan that they embody. But the praise is genuine and should not be lost in the disproportionate space devoted to critique in this contribution.

Key Words: Germany • Japan • economic change • institutionalism

1 For additional examples of how these alternative traditions are informing reform experiments in Germany, see Herrigel and Wittke 2005.


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