Herbert Kitschelt / Peter Lange / Gary Marks / D. Stephens (eds.)

Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism

Herausgeber: Kitschelt, Herbert; Marks, Gary; Lange, Peter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Capitalist democracies have always displayed considerable diversity in their key political and economic institutions, such as the organization of economic interest groups and private enterprises, the public sector and the welfare state, as well as political parties and social movements. The book asks whether the challenges of new technologies, citizens preferences, and growing political and economic interdependence in the 1980s and 1990s force all polities to adopt similar institutional reforms. The authors argue that established arrangements have become difficult to sustain, but that countries choose unique trajectories of reform, not a common approach. The diversity among capitalist democracies persists in a new fashion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 548
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 879g
• ISBN-13: 9780521634960
• ISBN-10: 0521634962
• Artikelnr.: 21726986

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Introduction; Part I. The International Setting for Political
Economic Strategies: 1. The global economy, 'post-Fordism,' and trade
policy in advanced capitalist states Timothy McKeown; 2. The
internationalization of capital Beth Simmons; 3. The making of a polity:
the struggle over European integration Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks; Part
II.The Dynamics of Domestic Political Economies: 4. Divergent production
regimes: coordinated and uncoordinated market economies in the 1980s and
1990s David Soskice; 5. The political economy of Europe in an era of
interdependence Peter A. Hall; 6. The welfare state in hard times Evelyne
Huber, and Leonard Ray; 7. Trade Union Organization and industrial
relations in the postwar era in twelve countries Miriam Golden, Michael
Wallerstein, and Peter Lange; 8. Social democratic labor market
institutions: a retrospective analysis Karl Ove Moene and Michael
Wallerstein; 9. The declining significance of male workers: Trade Union
responses to changing labor markets Jytte Klausen; Part III. Political
Economy and Democratic Competition: 10. Politics without class:
postindustrial cleavages in Europe and America Gøsta Epsing-Andersen; 11.
European social democracy between electoral competition and political
economy Herbert Kitschelt; 12. Contemporary Christian democracy and the
demise of the politics of mediation Kees van Kersbergen; 13. The political
economy of neoliberalism: Britain and the United States in the 1980s
Desmond King and Stewart Wood; 14. Movements of the left, movements of the
right: putting the mobilization of social movements into political context
Hans Peter Kriesi; Conclusion: 15. Convergence and divergence in advanced
capitalist democracies Herbert Kitschelt, Peter Lange, Gary Marks, and John
D. Stephens.