Continuity and Change in Contemporary CapitalismHerbert Kitschelt 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. |
Contents
THE GLOBAL ECONOMY POSTFORDISM AND TRADE POLICY IN ADVANCED CAPITALIST STATES | 11 |
THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF CAPITAL | 36 |
THE MAKING OF A POLITY THE STRUGGLE OVER EUROPEAN INTEGRATION | 70 |
THE DYNAMICS OF DOMESTIC POLITICAL ECONOMIES | 99 |
DIVERGENT PRODUCTION REGIMES COORDINATED AND UNCOORDINATED MARKET ECONOMIES IN THE 1980s AND 1990s | 101 |
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EUROPE IN AN ERA OF INTERDEPENDENCE | 135 |
THE WELFARE STATE IN HARD TIMES | 164 |
POSTWAR TRADEUNION ORGANIZATION AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN TWELVE COUNTRIES | 194 |
POLITICS WITHOUT CLASS POSTINDUSTRIAL CLEAVAGES IN EUROPE AND AMERICA | 293 |
EUROPEAN SOCIAL DEMOCRACY BETWEEN POLITICAL ECONOMY AND ELECTORAL COMPETITION | 317 |
CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY AND THE DEMISE OF THE POLITICS OF MEDIATION | 346 |
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NEOLIBERALISM BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES IN THE 1980s | 371 |
MOVEMENTS OF THE LEFT MOVEMENTS OF THE RIGHT PUTTING THE MOBILIZATION OF TWO NEW TYPES OF SOCIAL MOVEMEN... | 398 |
CONCLUSION | 425 |
CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE IN ADVANCED CAPITALIST DEMOCRACIES | 427 |
REFERENCES | 461 |
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Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism Herbert Kitschelt,Peter Lange,Gary Marks,John D. Stephens No preview available - 1999 |
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