Varieties Of Capitalism And The Political Economy Of Differentiated Integration In Europe

Author : Rafał Riedel
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1035319314
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Varieties of Capitalism and the Political Economy of Differentiated Integration in Europe written by Rafał Riedel and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this forward-thinking book, Rafał Riedel and Jakub Anusik explore the dynamics and determinants of one of the most salient issues facing contemporary Europe: differentiated integration. Going beyond static models of differentiated integration in Europe built on legal-institutional criteria, Riedel and Anusik capture the dynamism of the system by employing both a political economy perspective and the varieties of capitalism framework. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Author : Georg Menz
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019156415X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Varieties of Capitalism and Europeanization written by Georg Menz and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europeanization has often been conceived as a top-down process, necessitating implementation and adjustment at the national level. However, Europeanization can also be conditioned by bottom-up national initiatives. While recent endeavors in comparative political economy have emphasized the resilience of coordinated market economies, few detailed empirical studies have examined to date exactly how different European systems of political-economic governance cope with and respond to an European impetus for liberalization. This original study of the impact of the EU-induced liberalization of service provision on member states argues that innovative national re-regulatory strategies may be implemented in response to Europeanization. In permitting any company registered in an EU member state to provide services throughout Europe, new possibilities were created for the transnational posting of workers from low-wage to high-wage countries. However, high-wage countries could re-regulate the wage levels applicable to such employees. The exact nature of such response strategy is coloured by the respective institutional power that labour market interest associations like trade unions and employer associations command. Therefore, different institutionalised varieties of capitalism generate distinct re-regulations of the Single European Market. Drawing on detailed case studies of ten European countries, this volume bridges the gap between the rapidly unfolding scholarly debate on Europeanization and varieties of capitalism. It argues that both strongly neocorporatist systems of political-economic governance and statist systems are capable of creating swift, comprehensive and thorough national re-regulations. This applies to Austria and France, but also Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Belgium, and Luxembourg. By contrast, countries with less strongly embedded neocorporatist structures, in which due to organizational deficiencies trade unions face difficulties blocking employer demands, create liberal response strategies, permitting a stratification of wage levels. Hence, both Germany and the Netherlands implemented liberal business-friendly re-regulations. The volume makes the case for important amendments to existing accounts of Europeanization and varieties of capitalism. Scholars of Europeanization need to incorporate bottom-up re-regulation into their conceptual framework, particularly in response to 'negative integration'. Recent strides in comparative political economy have placed great emphasis on continued divergence, yet this study suggests that even within the presumably unified group of 'non-liberal' coordinated market economies important institutional differences produce very distinct responses in the face of European liberalization.

Author : Bastiaan van Apeldoorn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134521618
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration written by Bastiaan van Apeldoorn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an analysis of the transnational social forces in the making of a new European socio-economic order that emerged out of the European integration process during the 1980s and 1990s. Arguing that the political economy of European integration must be put within the context of a changing global capitalism, Van Apeldoorn examines how European change is linked to global change and how transnational actors mediate these changes.

Author : Alison Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100037372X
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is the European Union Capable of Integrating Diverse Models of Capitalism? written by Alison Johnston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2009 European sovereign debt crisis and the EU’s policy response to it have prompted scholars to re-think whether diverse national models of capitalism can thrive within the European Union (EU). Are some national economic systems better suited to adapt to European integration than others, and if so, why? Contributions within this volume provide a qualified yes to these questions raised, concluding that the EU favors export-led growth models while it penalizes and discourages domestic consumption-oriented growth paths, particularly those that are financed by debt-accumulation. The book questions whether the EU is capable of integrating these diverse capitalist regimes. This volume adds a comparative capitalism perspective to EU integration scholarship in order to demonstrate that ever-closer union is not capable of accommodating diversity in national economic institutions. Chapters in this volume provide an innovative framework for understanding what factors related to European integration impede the economic and political integration of diverse European market economies. While recent comparative capitalism literature highlights that European monetary integration has favored export-led growth regimes, contributions in this volume outline that the EU’s prioritization of export-led growth over domestic-demand led growth is present in other facets of integration, including EU accession, financial integration, the free movement of people, fiscal governance and the Europe 2020 growth strategy. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of New Political Economy.

Author : Bob Hancké
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191525685
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Varieties of Capitalism written by Bob Hancké and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-05-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1990s, Europe's economies have been facing several new challenges: the single market programme, the collapse of the Berlin wall and eastward enlargement, and monetary unification. Building on the influential Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) perspective, first elaboarted in detail in the book Varieties of Capitalism (OUP, 2001), this book critically analyzes these developments in the European political economy and their effects on the continental European economies. Leading political economists from Europe and the US debate how VoC can help understand the political-economic challenges that Europe is facing today and how understanding these new challenges can in turn enrich and enhance the VoC perspective. Thematically, the contributions to this volume are organised in four sections: * how the macro-economics of EMU have influenced different European models of capitalism, * how the Single Market programme was received in the different institutional regimes in European capitalism, * how welfare and labour market reforms are debated and implemented, * how European capitalism travelled east after 1989. Preceding this is a spirited defence of the VoC approach by Peter Hall, and an introduction from the volume editors, considering the approach, and proposing extensions and amendments. This book demonstrates that the VoC approach remains, as the editors put it in their introduction, a rich seam to mine, capable of accommodating new developments, and theoretically flexible enough to produce new and innovative hypotheses and arguments.

Author : Richard Deeg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317625633
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Models of Capitalism in Europe and the U.S. written by Richard Deeg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume analyzes the long-term trajectories of change in the capitalist models of the UK, Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, and the United States. The case studies identify critical junctures and key periods of change in order to show how institutions are shaped by different sets of socio-political compromises and public policy. The case studies follow a common methodology, comparing change and linkages across six core institutional domains, thus facilitating a comparative understanding of the patterns and drivers of institutional change, as well as how liberalisation impacts countries in similar and dissimilar ways. The historical perspective of the cases highlights the transformative effects of relatively slow and incremental changes. These case studies also make an innovative contribution to examining the linkages between four levels of institutions that regulate the economy – the international, macro (national), meso, and micro. The volume reveals both a common trend toward more liberal forms of capitalism but also variations on this overarching trajectory. Markets themselves create their own dynamics, which have varied effects on firms and other economic actors in historically diverse institutional contexts. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

Author : Robert Delorme
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Diversity written by Robert Delorme and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays deal with the reconstruction of political economy as an evolutionary science. Four themes dominate the book: theoretical foundations; policy-making; empirical enquiry; and modelling. Other issues addressed include industrial/marketing restructuring and ecological sustainability.

Author : Vivien A. Schmidt
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019103939X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Futures of European Capitalism written by Vivien A. Schmidt and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-08-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this path-breaking book, the author argues that European countries' political-economic policies, practices, and discourses have changed profoundly in response to globalization and Europeanization, but they have not converged. Although national policies may now be more similar, especially where they follow from common European policies, they are not the same. National practices, although moving in the same general direction toward greater market orientation, continue to be differentiable into not just one or even two but three varieties of capitalism. And national discourses that generate and legitimate changes in policies and practices not only remain distinct, they matter. The book is a tour de force which combines sophisticated theoretical insights and innovative methods to show that European countries generally, but in particular Britain, France, and Germany (for which the book provides lengthy case studies), have had very different experiences of economic adjustment, and will continue to do so into the future.

Author : Ayşe Buğra
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783473134
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Capitalism in Turkey written by Ayşe Buğra and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Capitalism in Turkey explores the changing relationship between politics, religion and business through an analysis of the contemporary Turkish business environment.

Author : Orfeo Fioretos
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801461194
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Reconstructions written by Orfeo Fioretos and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth-century Europe was an intense laboratory of capitalist experimentation. Confronted with economic booms and crises, technological revolutions, and economic globalization, Western Europe’s governments constantly explored alternative ways of managing domestic economic systems and international commerce. Bridging comparative and international political economy, Creative Reconstructions compellingly expands our understanding of the historic relationship between varieties of capitalism and international cooperation. Orfeo Fioretos’ pathbreaking analysis places multilateral institutions at the center of the study of capitalism. He highlights the role played by governments’ multilateral strategies in shaping the national trajectories of capitalism in Great Britain, France, and Germany. Fioretos shows that membership in international organizations such as the European Union and its precursors was an integral innovation in the domestic management of capitalism that came to play a central, if varied, role in shaping the evolution of modern market economies. Spanning six decades from the postwar period to the global crisis of 2008, Creative Reconstructions details the opportunities and constraints that multilateral engagements entailed for reforms in national financial, corporate governance, industrial relations, and innovation systems. In vivid analytical narratives, Fioretos shows how multilateral institutions served to reinforce and at times to undermine ambitious domestic reform programs. Creative Reconstructions deepens our understanding of modern capitalism in Europe and offers valuable lessons for regions beyond its borders.