Comparing Welfare Capitalism: Social Policy and Political Economy in Europe, Japan and the USA

by Ebbinghaus,Bernhard

• ISBN13: 9780415255714
• ISBN10: 0415255716
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book challenges the popular thesis of a downward trend in the viability of welfare states in competitive market economies. With approaches ranging from historical case studies to cross-national analyses, the contributors explore various aspects of the relationships between welfare states, industrial relations, financial government and production systems.

Table of Contents

List of figures	viii
List of tables	ix
List of contributors	xi
Series editors' preface	xiii
Preface	xv
Wolfgang Streeck
Acknowledgements	xxi
Abbreviations	xxii
Introduction: studying varieties of welfare capitalism	1	(26)
Bernhard Ebbinghaus
Philip Manow
PART I The origins and development of welfare capitalism
Business coordination, wage bargaining and the welfare state: Germany and Japan in comparative historical perspective	27	(25)
Philip Manow
Strategic bargaining and social policy development: unemployment insurance in France and Germany	52	(24)
Isabela Mares
When labour and capital collude: the political economy of early retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA	76	(29)
Bernhard Ebbinghaus
PART II Industrial relations and welfare state regimes
Welfare state regimes and industrial relations systems: the questionable role of path dependency theory	105	(20)
Colin Crouch
Social partnership, welfare state regimes and working time in Europe	125	(21)
Hugh Compston
The governance of the employment-welfare relationship in Britain and Germany	146	(25)
Anke Hassel
PART III Pension regimes and financial systems
Between financial commitment, market liquidity and corporate governance: occupational pensions in Britain, Germany, Japan and the USA	171	(19)
Gregory Jackson
Sigurt Vitols
The forgotten link: the financial regulation of Japanese pension funds in comparative perspective	190	(27)
Margarita Estevez-Abe
PART IV The political economy of welfare state reform
The experience of negotiated reforms in the Dutch and German welfare states	217	(22)
Anton Hemerijck
Philip Manow
The challenge of de-industrialisation: divergent ideological responses to welfare state reform	239	(31)
Anne Wren
Employment and the welfare state: a continental dilemma	270	(17)
Fritz W. Scharpf
PART V Conclusions
The politics of elective affinities: a commentary	287	(17)
Michael Shalev
Varieties of welfare capitalism: an outlook on future directions of research	304	(12)
Bernhard Ebbinghaus
Philip Manow
Index	316