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KNOWLEDGE REGIMES AND COMPARATIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY John L. Campbell Department of Sociology Dartmouth College and International Center for Business and Politics Copenhagen Business School and Ove K. Pedersen International Center for Business and Politics Copenhagen Business School February 2007 Thanks go to Michael Allen, John Hall, Vivien Schmidt, Wolfgang Streeck, and the editors for comments, and to Scott Schonfeld for research assistance. Address correspondence to: John Campbell, 123 Silsby Hall, Department of Sociology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755 USA, (John.L.Campbell@Dartmouth.Edu),or Ove K. Pedersen, International Center for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Steen Blichers Vej 22, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark (op.cbp@cbs.dk). KNOWLEDGE REGIMES AND COMPARATIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY Comparative political economy has been dominated since the 1970s by two waves of research. The first one examined how different types of policy-making regimes affect policy making and, in turn, national economic competitiveness (e.g., Katzenstein 1978). The second one studied how different types of production regimes affect national competitiveness (e.g., Hall and Soskice 2001). Absent from all of this is much discussion about knowledge regimes. Knowledge regimes are sets of actors, organizations, and institutions that produce and disseminate policy ideas that affect how policy-making and production regimes are organized and operate in the first place. Knowledge regimes are important because