Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity write by Kathleen Thelen. This book was released on 2014-03-31. Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing on developments in three arenas - industrial relations, vocational education and training, and labor market policy. While confirming a broad, shared liberalizing trend, it finds that there are in fact distinct varieties of liberalization associated with very different distributive outcomes. Most scholarship equates liberal capitalism with inequality and coordinated capitalism with higher levels of social solidarity. However, this study explains why the institutions of coordinated capitalism and egalitarian capitalism coincided and complemented one another in the "Golden Era" of postwar development in the 1950s and 1960s, and why they no longer do so. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, this study reveals that the successful defense of the institutions traditionally associated with coordinated capitalism has often been a recipe for increased inequality due to declining coverage and dualization. Conversely, it argues that some forms of labor market liberalization are perfectly compatible with continued high levels of social solidarity and indeed may be necessary to sustain it.
Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity
Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity write by Kathleen Ann Thelen. This book was released on 2014. Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing on developments in three arenas - industrial relations, vocational education and training, and labor market policy. While confirming a broad, shared liberalizing trend, it finds that there are in fact distinct varieties of liberalization associated with very different distributive outcomes. Most scholarship equates liberal capitalism with inequality and coordinated capitalism with higher levels of social solidarity. However, this study explains why the institutions of coordinated capitalism and egalitarian capitalism coincided and complemented one another in the "Golden Era" of postwar development in the 1950s and 1960s, and why they no longer do so. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, this study reveals that the successful defense of the institutions traditionally associated with coordinated capitalism has often been a recipe for increased inequality due to declining coverage and dualization. Conversely, it argues that some forms of labor market liberalization are perfectly compatible with continued high levels of social solidarity and indeed may be necessary to sustain it"--
Varieties of Capitalism
Varieties of Capitalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Varieties of Capitalism write by Kathleen Thelen. This book was released on 2012. Varieties of Capitalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This essay reviews recent literature on varieties of capitalism, drawing on insights from existing studies to propose a new, more differentiated way of thinking about contemporary changes in the political economies of the rich democracies. The framework offered here breaks with the "continuum models" on which much of the traditional literature has been based, in which countries are arrayed along a single dimension according to their degree of "corporatism" or, more recently, of "coordination." In so doing, it reveals combinations--continued high levels of equality with significant liberalization, and declining solidarity in the context of continued significant coordination- -that existing theories rule out by definition. I argue that these puzzling combinations cannot be understood with reference to the usual dichotomous, structural variables on which the literature has long relied, but require instead greater attention to the coalitional foundations on which politicaleconomic institutions rest. A coalitional approach reveals that institutions that in the past supported the more egalitarian varieties of capitalism survive best not when they stably reproduce the politics and patterns of the Golden Era but rather when they are reconfigured--in both form and function--on the basis of significantly new political support coalitions. Description: The lecture was delivered on 18 January 2012.
Varieties of Capitalism
Varieties of Capitalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Varieties of Capitalism write by Peter A. Hall. This book was released on 2001. Varieties of Capitalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Applying the new economics of organisation and relational theories of the firm to the problem of understanding cross-national variation in the political economy, this volume elaborates a new understanding of the institutional differences that characterise the 'varieties of capitalism' worldwide.
Institutional Change in the Public Sphere
Institutional Change in the Public Sphere - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Institutional Change in the Public Sphere write by Fredrik Engelstad. This book was released on 2017-04-24. Institutional Change in the Public Sphere available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The main focus of the book is institutional change in the Scandinavian model, with special emphasis on Norway. There are many reasons to pay closer attention to the Norwegian case when it comes to analyses of changes in the public sphere. In the country’s political history, the arts and the media played a particular role in the processes towards sovereignty at the beginning of the 20th century. On a par with the other Scandinavian countries, Norway is in the forefront in the world in the distribution and uses of Internet technology. As an extreme case, the most corporatist society within the family of the “Nordic Model”, it offers an opportunity both for intriguing case studies and for challenging and refining existing theory on processes of institutional change in media policy and cultural policy. It supplements two recent, important books on political economy in Scandinavia: Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity (Kathleen Thelen, 2014), and The Political Construction of Business Interests (Cathie Jo Martin and Duane Swank, 2013). There are further reasons to pay particular attention to the Scandinavian, and more specifically the Norwegian cases: (i) They are to varying degrees neo-corporatist societies, characterized by ongoing bargaining over social and political reform processes. From a theoretical perspective this invites reflections which, to some extent, are at odds with the dominant conceptions of institutional change. Neither models of path dependency nor models of aggregate, incremental change focus on the continuous social bargaining over institutional change. (ii) Despite recent processes of liberalization, common to the Western world as a whole, corporatism implies a close connection between state, public sphere, cultural life, and religion. This also means that institutions are closely bundled, in an even stronger way than assumed for example in the Varieties of Capitalism literature. Furthermore, we only have scarce insight in the way the different spheres of corporatism are connected and interact. In the proposed edited volume we have collected historical-institutional case studies from a broad set of social fields (a detailed outline of contents and contributors is attached): • Critical assessments of Jürgen Habermas’ theory of the public sphere • Can the public sphere be considered an institution? • The central position of the public sphere in social and political change in Norway • Digital transformations and effects of the growing PR industry on the public sphere • Institutionalization of social media in local politics and voluntary organizations • Legitimation work in the public sphere • freedom of expression and warning in the workplace • “Return of religion” to the public sphere, and its effects
