Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism

Name: Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism
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ISBN: 9780521634960

ISBN-10: 0521634962

ISBN-13: 9780521634960

Edition: 1999

Authors: Herbert Kitschelt, Peter Lange, Gary Marks, John D. Stephens, Robert H. Bates

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In the 1980s, it was argued that powerful economic interests & social democratic parties created mixed economies promoting full employment & social equality. Here, the authors reexamine this account from today's perspective.

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List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/13/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 548
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.02" long x 1.42" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

John D. Stephens is the Gerhard E. Lenski, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.



Preface


Introduction



The International Setting for Political Economic Strategies



The global economy, 'post-Fordism,' and trade policy in advanced capitalist states Timothy McKeown



The internationalization of capital Beth Simmons



The making of a polity: the struggle over European integration Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks



The Dynamics of Domestic Political Economies



Divergent production regimes: coordinated and uncoordinated market economies in the 1980s and 1990s




The political economy of Europe in an era of interdependence




The welfare state in hard times




Trade Union Organization and industrial relations in the postwar era in twelve countries




Social democratic labor market institutions: a retrospective analysis




The declining significance of male workers: Trade Union responses to changing labor markets




Political Economy and Democratic Competition



Politics without class: postindustrial cleavages in Europe and America




European social democracy between electoral competition and political economy




Contemporary Christian democracy and the demise of the politics of mediation




The political economy of neoliberalism: Britain and the United States in the 1980s




Movements of the left, movements of the right: putting the mobilization of social movements into political context



Conclusion



Convergence and divergence in advanced capitalist democracies