Professor Colin Crouch is chair of the Institute of Governance and Public Management at the Business School of Warwick University. He is also the External Scientific member of the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies at Cologne. He is chairman, and former joint editor, of The Political Quarterly, and immediate past-president of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). His most recent books include: (edited, with Streeck, W.) Political Economy of Modern Capitalism: The Future of Capitalist Diversity (Sage, 1997); Are Skills the Answer? (with David Finegold and Mari Sako, OUP, 1999); Social Change in Western Europe (OUP, 1999); (with others) Local Production Systems in Europe: Rise or Demise (OUP, 2001); Postdemocrazia (Laterza, 2003) (in English as Post-Democracy (Polity, 2004)); and (with others) Changing Governance of Local Economies: Response of European Local Production Systems (OUP, 2004).

• 1. Neo-Institutional Analysis and Comparative Capitalism ; 2. Typologies of Capitalism ; 3. Wahlverwandschaft, Complementarity, and the Theoretical Utlitity of Institutional Untidiness ; 4. Innovation and Path Dependence ; 5. A Strategy for the Analysis of Institutional Governance and innovation ; 6. Recombinant Governance Mechanisms: Cases ; 7. Conclusions: A Reformed Neo-institutionalist Research Programme

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