Varieties of Capitalism

What are the most important differences among national economies? Is globalization forcing nations to converge on an Anglo-American model? What explains national differences in social and economic policy? This pathbreaking work outlines a new approach to these questions. It highlights the role of business in national economies and shows that there is more than one path to economic success. The book sets a new intellectual agenda for everyone interested in relations between politics,
economics, and business.

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West European Politics ... this volume and its associated literature, will become the paradigm of explanation for the next decade.

British Journal of International Relations. Contains some first-rate analysis.

Progress in Human Geography This volume offers a new approach to understanding the institutional differences and similarities among the developed economies.

American Political Science Review A milestone in the development of the subdiscipline of comparative political economy ... There is no doubt that Varieties of Capitalism will prove to be a landmark text. It is a very important collection, of value to all students in the field.

American Political Science Review In a collection of consistently high-quality pieces, there are particularly valuable comparative chapters on industrial relations, training systems, and corporate governance.

Financial Adviser Written for the informed, non-specialist observer ... a useful and wide-ranging book.

Sir Geoffrey Owen, Financial Times This is an academic book in the sense that it draws on recent advances in economic and political theory - non-economists may find some chapters hard going - but it is also firmly based on an analysis of how companies really behave ... an important and carefully argued book.

New Statesman Quoted as one of the six books to change the world.

John Sloan, Financial Adviser Careers Extra It is a useful and wide-ranging book.

Professor F.W. Scharpf, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne This book has been well worth waiting for. It demonstrates the wealth of insights that could be achieved through Soskice's innovative research program that began to change the agenda of Comparative POlitical Economy more than a decade ago. The volume combines a definitive restatement of the varieties of capitalism approach with illuminative applications to the range of research areas covered by it with some fascinating theoretical extensions. Excellent!

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1. An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism; PART I: GENERAL THEMES AND DIVERSE APPLICATIONS; 2. Varieties of Labor Politics in the Developed Democracies; 3. Institutional and Sectoral Interactions in Monetary Policy and Wage-Price Bargaining; 4. Social Protection and the Formation of Skills: A Reinterpretation of the Welfare State; 5. Firms and the Welfare State: When, Why, and How Does Social Policy Matter to Employers?; 6. The Domestic Sources of Multilateral Preferences: Varieties of Capitalism in the European Community; PART II: CASE-STUDIES IN PUBLIC POLICY, CONTINUITY, AND CHANGE; 7. Business, Government, and Labour Market Policy in Britain and Germany; 8. Employers, Public Policy, and the Politics of Decentralized Cooperation in Germany and France; 9. Revisiting the French Model: Coordination and Restructuring in French Industry; PART III: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, FIRM STRATEGY, AND THE LAW; 10. Varieties of Corporate Governance: Comparing Germany and the UK; 11. Macro-Varieties of Capitalism and Micro-Varieties of Strategic Management in European Airlines; 12. The Legal Framework for Corporate Governance: The Influence of Contract Law on Company Strategies in Germany and the United States; 13. Legal Irritants: How Unifying Law Ends Up in New Divergences; 14. National Varieties of Standardization

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