The Politics of Advanced Capitalism

ISBN-13: 9781107099869 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 472 str.

Pablo Beramendi; Silja H'Ausermann; Herbert Kitschelt

Opis

This book serves as a sequel to two distinguished volumes on capitalism: Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism (1985). Both volumes took stock of major economic challenges advanced industrial democracies faced, as well as the ways political and economic elites dealt with them. However, during the last decades, the structural environment of advanced capitalist democracies has undergone profound changes: sweeping deindustrialization, tertiarization of the employment structure, and demographic developments. This book provides a synthetic view, allowing the reader to grasp the nature of these structural transformations and their consequences in terms of the politics of change, policy outputs, and outcomes. In contrast to functionalist and structuralist approaches, the book advocates and contributes to a 'return of electoral and coalitional politics' to political economy research.

Recenzje

'An excellent contribution to the important topic of comparing country responses to the economic turbulences of recent times: how models about power resources, path dependence, and power alignments can make senses out of divergence/convergence on inequality, unemployment, growth, mobility, gender, health, and education. Faced with the decline of manufacturing, the globalization of the supply chain, and the shrinking of low-wage manufacturing, countries use their investments in the various institutions of capitalism in differing ways. This book helps us understand this variance and is valuable for faculty and students alike.' Peter Gourevitch, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego

Spis treści

1. Introduction: the politics of advanced capitalism Pablo Beramendi, Silja Häusermann, Herbert Kitschelt and Hanspeter Kriesi; Part I. Structural Transformations: 2. Prosperity and the evolving structure of advanced economies Carles Boix; 3. The origins of dualism David Rueda, Erik Wibbels and Melina Altamirano; 4. Occupational structure and labor market change in Western Europe since 1990 Daniel Oesch; 5. Globalization, labor market risks, and class cleavage Rafaela Dancygier and Stefanie Walter; 6. The return of the family Gosta Esping-Andersen; Part II. Politics: 7. Party alignments: change and continuity Herbert Kitschelt and Philipp Rehm; 8. What do voters want? Dimensions and configurations in individual-level preferences and party choice Silja Häusermann and Hanspeter Kriesi; 9. Trade unions and the future of democratic capitalism Anke Hassel; Part III. Policies: 10. Post-industrial social policy Evelyne Huber and John Stephens; 11. The dynamics of social investment: human capital, activation, and care Jane Gingrich and Ben Ansell; 12. Stability and change in CMEs: corporate governance and industrial relations in Germany and Denmark Gregory Jackson and Kathleen Thelen; Part IV. Outcomes: 13. Constrained partisanship and economic outcomes Pablo Beramendi; 14. Happiness and the welfare state: decommodification and the political economy of subjective wellbeing Christopher J. Anderson and Jason D. Hecht; 15. Conclusion: advanced capitalism in crisis Pablo Beramendi, Silja Häusermann, Herbert Kitschelt and Hanspeter Kriesi.