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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Becker, Uwe, 1951- editor.

Series:

Changing welfare states.

Changing welfare states

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--Europe, Western.

Capitalism.

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

Europe, Western.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This important volume sheds light on a group of smaller European countries, often overlooked in economic discussions, that share a high degree of corporatism - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. The contributors to this book investigate the various trajectories of these countries' economies, with particular consideration devoted to their welfare systems, corporate governance, and labor markets from the early 1990s to the economic crisis of 2008. Importantly, 'The Changing Political Economies of Small West European Countries' also investigates various nations as possible socio-economic models for pan-European capitalism.

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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

1-283-23183-2

9786613231833

90-485-1454-1

OCLC:

749264432