Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism

by Edited by Herbert Kitschelt , Peter Lange , Gary Marks , John D. Stephens

• ISBN13: 9780521624466
• ISBN10: 0521624460
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In the early 1980s, many observers, argued that powerful organized economic interests and social democratic parties created successful mixed economies promoting economic growth, full employment, and a modicum of social equality. The present book assembles scholars with formidable expertise in the study of advanced capitalist politics and political economy to reexamine this account from the vantage point of the second half of the 1990s. The authors find that the conventional wisdom no longer adequately reflects the political and economic realities. Advanced democracies have responded in path-dependent fashion to such novel challenges as technological change, intensifying international competition, new social conflict, and the erosion of established patterns of political mobilization. The book rejects, however, the currently widespread expectation that 'internationalization' makes all democracies converge on similar political and economic institutions and power relations. Diversity among capitalist democracies persists, though in a different fashion than in the 'Golden Age' of rapid economic growth after World War II.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix	(6)
Preface	xv
Introduction	1	(10)
Herbert Kitschelt
Peter Lange
Gary Marks
John D. Stephens
PART I: THE INTERNATIONAL SETTING FOR POLITICAL-ECONOMIC STRATEGIES	11	(90)
1 The Global Economy, Post-Fordism, and Trade Policy in Advanced Capitalist States	11	(25)
Timothy J. McKeown
2 The Internationalization of Capital	36	(34)
Beth A. Simmons
3 The Making of a Polity: The Struggle over European Integration	70	(31)
Liesbet Hooghe
Gary Marks
PART II: THE DYNAMICS OF DOMESTIC POLITICAL ECONOMIES	101	(192)
4 Divergent Production Regimes: Coordinated and Uncoordinated Market Economies in the 1980s and 1990s	101	(34)
David Soskice
5 The Political Economy of Europe in an Era of Interdependence	135	(29)
Peter A. Hall
6 The Welfare State in Hard Times	164	(30)
John D. Stephens
Evelyne Huber
Leonard Ray
7 Postwar Trade-Union Organization and Industrial Relations in Twelve Countries	194	(37)
Miriam A. Golden
Michael Wallerstein
Peter Lange
8 Social Democratic Labor Market Institutions: A Retrospective Analysis	231	(30)
Karl Ove Moene
Michael Wallerstein
9 The Declining Significance of Male Workers: Trade-Union Responses to Changing Labor Markets	261	(32)
Jytte Klausen
PART III: POLITICAL ECONOMY AND DEMOCRATIC COMPETITION	293	(134)
10 Politics without Class: Postindustrial Cleavages in Europe and America	293	(24)
Gosta Esping-Andersen
11 European Social Democracy between Political Economy and Electoral Competition	317	(29)
Herbert Kitschelt
12 Contemporary Christian Democracy and the Demise of the Politics of Mediation	346	(25)
Kees van Kersbergen
13 The Political Economy of Neoliberalism: Britain and the United States in the 1980s	371	(27)
Desmond King
Stewart Wood
14 Movements of the Left, Movements of the Right: Putting the Mobilization of Two New Types of Social Movements into Political Context	398	(29)
Hanspeter Kriesi
PART IV: CONCLUSION	427	(34)
15 Convergence and Divergence in Advanced Capitalist Democracies	427	(34)
Herbert Kitschelt
Peter Lange
Gary Marks
John D. Stephens
References	461	(50)
Index	511