Re-forming capitalism:institutional change in the German political economy
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Oxford University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Oxford New York |
Publication Dates: | c2009. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xiii, 297 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780199556779 0199556776 |
Index Number: | F151 |
CLC: | F151.6 |
Call Number: | F151.6/S914 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-290) and index. Five sectors -- Industry-wide collective bargaining : shrinking core, expanding fringes -- Intermediary organization : declining membership, rising tensions -- Social policy : the rise and fall of welfare corporatism -- Public finance : the fiscal crisis of the postwar state -- Corporate governance : the decline of Germany Inc. -- Systemic change : five parallel trajectories -- From system to process -- Endogenous change : time, age, and the self-undermining of institutions -- Time's up : positive externalities turning negative -- Disorganization as liberalization -- Convergence, non-convergence, divergence -- "Economizing'' and the evolution of political-economic institutions -- Internationalization -- German unification -- History -- Bringing capitalism back in. Wolfgang Streeck, a leading figure in comparative political economy and institutional theory, addresses some of the key arguments in these fields: the role of history in institutional analysis, the dynamics of slow institutional change, and the recurrent difficulties of restraining the effects of capitalism on social order. |