The changing political economies of small West European countries / Uwe Becker (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Becker, Uwe, 1951-

Series:

Changing welfare states

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--Europe, Western.

Capitalism.

Europe, Western--Economic conditions--1945-.

Europe, Western.

Western Europe.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

237 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, The Netherlands : Amsterdam University Press, [2011]

Summary:

The literature on changing varieties of capitalism concentrates on the big economies, particularly the US, Germany and Japan. The Changing Political Economies of Small West European Countries sheds light on the group of smaller European countries that share a high degree of corporatism -Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. Most of them have recently been praised as alternative models to the liberal route as exemplified by the US. The authors put the small countries' political economies in comparative perspective and investigate the trajectories of their welfare systems, corporate governance, labour markets as well as industrial relations from about 1990 until the economic crisis in 2008. This volume also discusses typological questions, tracks the position of the small countries in the processes of European integration and asks whether their particular brands of capitalism might be a viable candidate for the European socio-economic model. Book jacket.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. The variety of capitalism in Sweden and Finland : continuity through change

3. Change and continuity in Danish and Norwegian capitalism : corporatism and beyond

4. Coming together but staying apart : continuity and change in the Austrian and Swiss varieties of capitalism

5. Liberal convergence, growing outcome divergence? Institutional continuity and changing trajectories in the 'low countries'

6. Small countries, big countries under conditions of Europeanisation and globalisation

7. The small corporate political economies as European socio-economic model?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-231) and index.

ISBN:

9789089643315

9089643311

9789048514540

9048514541

OCLC:

774921090