Comparing Welfare Capitalism: Social Policy and Political Economy in Europe, Japan and the USA

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ISBN: 9780415255714 | 0415255716
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 10/26/2001

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This book challenges the popular thesis of a downward trend in the viability of welfare states in competitive market economies. With approaches ranging from historical case studies to cross-national analyses, the contributors explore various aspects of the relationships between welfare states, industrial relations, financial government and production systems.

List of figures

viii

List of tables

List of contributors

Series editors' preface

xiii

Preface

Wolfgang Streeck

Acknowledgements

xxi

Abbreviations

xxii

Introduction: studying varieties of welfare capitalism

(26)

Bernhard Ebbinghaus

Philip Manow

PART I The origins and development of welfare capitalism

Business coordination, wage bargaining and the welfare state: Germany and Japan in comparative historical perspective

(25)

Philip Manow

Strategic bargaining and social policy development: unemployment insurance in France and Germany

(24)

Isabela Mares

When labour and capital collude: the political economy of early retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA

(29)

Bernhard Ebbinghaus

PART II Industrial relations and welfare state regimes

Welfare state regimes and industrial relations systems: the questionable role of path dependency theory

105

(20)

Colin Crouch

Social partnership, welfare state regimes and working time in Europe

125

(21)

Hugh Compston

The governance of the employment-welfare relationship in Britain and Germany

146

(25)

Anke Hassel

PART III Pension regimes and financial systems

Between financial commitment, market liquidity and corporate governance: occupational pensions in Britain, Germany, Japan and the USA

171

(19)

Gregory Jackson

Sigurt Vitols

The forgotten link: the financial regulation of Japanese pension funds in comparative perspective

190

(27)

Margarita Estevez-Abe

PART IV The political economy of welfare state reform

The experience of negotiated reforms in the Dutch and German welfare states

217

(22)

Anton Hemerijck

Philip Manow

The challenge of de-industrialisation: divergent ideological responses to welfare state reform

239

(31)

Anne Wren

Employment and the welfare state: a continental dilemma

270

(17)

Fritz W. Scharpf

PART V Conclusions

The politics of elective affinities: a commentary

287

(17)

Michael Shalev

Varieties of welfare capitalism: an outlook on future directions of research

304

(12)

Bernhard Ebbinghaus

Philip Manow

Index

316

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Comparing Welfare Capitalism: Social Policy and Political Economy in Europe, Japan and the USA

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