Growth Strategies and Welfare Reforms How Nations Cope with Economic Transitions

by Hassel, Anke; Palier, Bruno

• ISBN13: 9780198947486
• ISBN10: 0198947488
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780198947509
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2026-01-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

How have advanced capitalist democracies dealt with deindustrialization? Did financialization affect these economies to the same degree? How does digitalization transform them? How do governments deal with the polycrises of Covid-19, inflation, and climate change? What roles did welfare systems and reforms play in these adaptations?

This book seeks to answer these questions by exploring the economic and social trajectories of advanced political economies in Europe, the United States, China, and Russia in the twenty-first century. It focuses on the interaction between national growth and welfare regimes, government growth strategies, and welfare state reforms to explain these countries' differing developments from the 1990s to the mid 2020s. The chapters offer theoretical, typological, and empirical comparisons between advanced capitalist countries, alongside detailed national case studies, in order to further understand their general economic and social features and their developments.

Growth Strategies and Welfare Reforms features contributions from leading scholars in comparative political economy and comparative welfare state research, and presents a sophisticated theoretical approach, drawing on but also moving beyond varieties of capitalism and growth model approaches.

Author Biography

Anke Hassel, Professor of Public Policy, Hertie School,Bruno Palier, CNRS Research Director, Political Science Department, Sciences Po, Centre d'études européennes

Anke Hassel is Professor of Public Policy at the Hertie School. From 2016 to 2019 she was the Scientific Director of the WSI at the Hans Böckler Foundation. Anke Hassel has extensive international experience and scientific expertise in the fields of the labour market, social partnership, codetermination, and the comparative political economy of developed industrial nations. She was an expert in the fact-finding committee on growth, prosperity and quality of life in the German Bundestag (2012-13); the expert commission on the future of the Hans Böckler Foundation (2015-17) and chairwoman of the expert group on Workers' Voice and Good Corporate Governance in Transnational Companies in Europe (2015-2018). She is the co-editor of Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies (with Bruno Palier; OUP 2021) and How to Do Public Policy (with Kai Wegrich; OUP 2022)


Bruno Palier is CNRS Research Director at Sciences Po, Centre d'études européennes. He was trained in social science and has a PhD in Political Science. His research explores welfare state reforms around the world. He was director of the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP) between 2014 and 2020. He is the co-editor of the two volumes of The World Politics of Social Investment (with Julian Garritzmann and Silja Häusermann; OUP 2022) and Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies (with Anke Hassel; OUP 2021).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Economies in transition, Anke Hassel and Bruno Palier2. Germany: Adjustments of an export-led growth regime, Anke Hassel and Donato Di Carlo3. Growth strategies and welfare reforms in Denmark, Jette Steen Knudsen and Christian Ibsen4. Central and Eastern European growth regimes: Trajectories of change and continuity, Sonja Avlijas5. The fractious coupling of asset-based welfarism and Anglo-liberal growth in the United Kingdom, Colin Hay and Cyril Benoit6. The French disconnection: The mismatch between an export-led strategy and a domestic demand-led growth and welfare regime, Francesco Fioritto and Bruno Palier7. When growth strategies fail: Economic stagnation and social exclusion in the Italian case, Luigi Burroni, Emmanuele Pavolini, and Dario Raspanti8. Size, scope, and status: Why the American growth and welfare regime remains exceptional, Herman Mark Schwartz9. Beyond energy rents: Conflicting growth strategies, constrained welfare state, and a non-dynamic growth regime in Russia, Katharina Bluhm, Ewa Dabrowska, and Martin Brand10. Can welfare reforms propel another growth regime in China?, Robert Boyer and Olivier Boylaud11. Growth and emerging economies: The rise of remittances-based growth regimes, transnational skill formation, and welfare in Kosovo, Linda Wanklin12. Growth and decarbonization: National capacities meet global imperatives, Daniel Driscoll and Mark Blyth13. Growth and welfare regimes: A quantitative comparative analysis, Sinisa Hadziabdic, Anke Hassel, and Bruno Palier