Introduction: Studying varieties of welfare capitalism

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

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1-26

  Ebbinghaus, Bernhard ^a   Manow, Philip ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85139614862     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203166826-1     Document Type: Chapter

References (103)

1. Albert, M. (1993). Capitalism against Capitalism. London: Whurr Publishers.
2. Baldwin, P. (1990). The Politics of Social Solidarity. Class Bases of the European Welfare States 1875-1975. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3. Berger, S. and Dore, R. (eds) (1996). National Diversity and Global Capitalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
4. Borchert, J. (1998). ‘Ausgetretene Pfade? Zur Statik und Dynamik wohlfahrtsstaatlicher Regime’, in S. Lessenich and I. Ostner (eds), Welten des Wohlfahrtskapitalimus. Der Sozialstaai in vergleichender Perspektive. Frankfurt: Campus, 137-76.
5. Boyer, R. (1996). ‘The convergence hypothesis revisited: Globalization but still the cen¬tury of nations?’, in S. Berger and R. Dore (eds), National Diversity and Global Capitalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 29-59.
6. Castles, F. G. (1995). ‘Welfare state development in Southern Europe’, West European Politics 18(2), 291-313.
7. Castles, F. G. and Mitchell, D. (1993). ‘Worlds of welfare and families of nations’, in F. G. Castles (ed.), Families of Nations: Patterns of Public Policy in Western Democracies. Aldershot: Dartmouth, 93-128.
8. Cooper, R. W. (1999). Coordination Games. Complementarities and Macroeconomics. New York: Cambridge University Press.
9. Crouch, C. (1993). Industrial Relations and European Stale Traditions. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
10. Crouch, C. (1996). ‘Revised diversity: From the neo-liberal decade to beyond Maastricht’, in J. Van Ruysseveldt and J. Visser (eds), Industrial Relations in Europe. Traditions and Transitions. London: Sage, 358-75.
11. Crouch, C., Finegold, D. and Sako, M. (1999). Are Skills the Answer? The Political Economy of Skill Creation in Advanced Industrial Countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
12. Crouch, C. and Streeck, W. (eds) (1997). Political Economy of Modern Capitalism. Mapping Convergence and Diversity. London: Sage.
13. Culpepper, P. and Finegold, D. (eds) (1999). The German Skill Machine. New York: Berghahn Books.
14. De Swaan, A. (1988). In Care of the State. Health Care, Education and Welfare in Europe and the USA in the Modern Era. Cambridge: Polity Press.
15. DiMaggio, P. J. and Powell, W. W. (1983). ‘The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomor¬phism and collective rationality in organizational fields’, American Sociological Review 48(2), 147-60.
16. Dore, R. (1973). British Factory-Japanese Factory: The Origins of National Diversity in Industrial Relations. London: Allen & Unwin.
17. Dore, R. (1997). ‘The distinctiveness of Japan’, in C. Crouch and W. Streeck (eds), Political Economy of Modern Capitalism. Mapping Convergence and Diversity, London: Sage, 19-32.
18. Ebbinghaus, B. (1999). ‘Does a European social model exist and can it survive?’, in G. Huemer, M. Mesch and F. Traxler (eds), The Role of Employer Associations and Labour Unions in the EMU. Institutional Requirements for European Economic Policies. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1-26.
19. Esping-Andersen, G. (1990). Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
20. Esping-Andersen, G. (1992). ‘The emerging realignment between labour movements and welfare states’, in M. Regini (ed.), The Future of Labour Movements. London: Sage, 133-59.
21. Esping-Andersen, G. (1993). ‘Welfare states and the economy’, in N. J. Smelser and R. Swedberg (eds), The Handbook of Economic Sociology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 711-32.
22. Esping-Andersen, G. (ed.) (1996a). Welfare States in Transition. National Adaptations in Global Economies. London: Sage.
23. Esping-Andersen, G. (1996b). ‘Welfare states without work: The impasse of labour shed¬ding and familialism in Continental Europe’, in G. Esping-Andersen (ed.), Welfare States in Transition. National Adaptations in Global Economies. London: Sage, 66-87.
24. Esping-Andersen, G. (1997). ‘Hybrid or unique? The Japanese welfare state between Europe and America’, Journal of European Social Policy 7(3), 179-89.
25. Esping-Andersen, G. (1999). Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
26. Esping-Andersen, G. and Korpi, W. (1984). ‘Social policy as class politics in post-war cap¬italism: Scandinavia, Austria and Germany’, in J. H. Goldthorpe (ed.), Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 179-208.
27. Estevez-Abe, M., Iversen, T. and Soskice, D. (1999). ‘Social protection and the formation of skills: A reinterpretation of the welfare state’, APSA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 1-5 September 1999.
28. Ferrera, M. (1996). ‘The “Southern Model” of welfare in Social Europe’, Journal of European Social Policy 6(1), 17-37.
29. Flora, P. (1986). ‘Introduction’, in P. Flora (ed.), Growth to Limits. The Western European Welfare States Since World War II. Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark. Berlin: De Gruyter, 12-36.
30. Goldthorpe, J. H. (ed.) (1984). Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
31. Goodin, R. E., Headey, B., Muffels, R. and Dirven, H.-J. (1999). The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
32. Goodman, R. and Peng, I. (1996). ‘The East Asian welfare states: Peripatetic learning, adaptive change, and nation-building’, in G. Esping-Andersen (ed.), Welfare Stales in Transition. National Adaptations in Global Economies. London: Sage, 192-224.
33. Gould, A. (1993). Capitalist Welfare Systems. A Comparison of Japan, Britain and Sweden. London: Longman.
34. Granovetter, M. (1985). ‘Economic action and social structures: The problem of embed¬dedness’, American Journal of Sociology 91(3), 481-510.
35. Hall, P. A. (1986). Governing the Economy. Cambridge: Polity Press.
36. Hall, P. A. (1997). ‘The role of interests, institutions, and ideas in the comparative politi¬cal economy of the industrialized nations’, in M. I. Lichbach and A. S. Zuckerman (eds), Comparative Politics. Rationality, Culture, and Structure. New York: Cambridge University Press, 174-207.
37. Hall, P. A. and Soskice, D. (1999). ‘An introduction to varieties of capitalism’, unpub¬lished manuscript, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA/Social Science Research Center, Berlin.
38. Hall, P. A. and Soskice, D. (eds) (forthcoming). Varieties of Capitalism. The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage, New York: Oxford University Press.
39. Hassel, A. and Ebbinghaus, B. (2000). ‘From means to ends: Linking wage moderation and social policy reform’, in G. Fajertag and P. Pochet (eds), Social Pacts in Europe: New Dynamics. Brussels: ETUI, 61-84.
40. Hollingsworth, J. R. and Boyer, R. (eds) (1997a). Contemporary Capitalim. The Embeddedness of Institutions. New York: Cambridge University Press.
41. Hollingsworth, J. R. and Boyer, R. (1997b). ‘Coordination of economic actors and social systems of production’, in J. R. Hollingsworth and R. Boyer (eds), Contemporary Capitalim. The Embeddedness of Institutions. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1-47.
42. Hollingsworth, J. R., Schmitter, P. C. and Streeck, W. (eds) (1994). Governing Capitalist Economies. Performance and Control of Economic Sectors. New York: Oxford University Press.
43. Huber, E. and Stephens, J. D. (1999). ‘Welfare state and production regimes in the era of retrenchment’, Occasional Papers, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, NJ.
44. Immergut, E. M. (1998). ‘The theoretical core of the New Institutionalism’, Politics and Society 26(1), 5-34.
45. Iversen, T., Pontusson, J. and Soskice, D. (eds) (2000). Unions, Employers, and Central Banks. Macroeconomic Coordination and Institutional Change in Social Market Economies. New York: Cambridge University Press.
46. Jacobs, D. (1998). ‘Social welfare systems in East Asia: A comparative analysis including private welfare’, CASE paper CASE/10, Center for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics.
47. Kastendiek, H. (1990). ‘Convergence or a persistent diversity of national politics?’, in C. Crouch and D. Marquard (eds), The Politics of 1992. Beyond the Single European Market. Oxford: B. Blackwell, 68-84.
48. Kitschelt, H., Lange, P., Marks, G. and Stephens, J. D. (1999). ‘Convergence and diver¬gence in advanced capitalist democracies’, in H. Kitschelt, P. Lange, G. Marks and J. D. Stephens (eds), Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 427-60.
49. Kohl, J. (1993). ‘Der Wohlfahrtsstaat in vergleichender Perspektive. Anmerkungen zu Esping-Andersen’s “The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism” ’, Zeitschrift fir Sozialreform 39(2), 67-82.
50. Kolberg, J. E. (ed.) (1992). The Study of Welfare State Regimes. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
51. Kolberg, J. E. and Esping-Andersen, G. (1991). ‘Welfare states and employment regimes’, in J. E. Kolberg (ed.), The Welfare State as Employer. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 3-35.
52. Lange, P. and Meadwell, H. (1991). ‘Typologies of democratic systems: Form political inputs to political economy’, in H. J. Wiarda (ed.), New Directions in Comparative Politics, revised edn. Boulder, CO: Westview, 82-117.
53. Lehmbruch, G. and Schmitter, P. C. (eds) (1982). Patterns of Corporatist Policy-Making. London: Sage.
54. Leibfried, S. (1994). ‘Sozialstaat oder Wohlfahrtsgesellschaft. Thesen zu einem japanischen- deutschen Sozialpolitikvergleich’, Soziale Welt 45(4), 389-410.
55. Levi, M. (2000). ‘The economic turn in comparative politics’, Comparative Political Studies 33(6/7), 822-44.
56. Locke, R. M. and Thelen, K. (1995). ‘Apples and oranges revisited: Contextualized com¬parisons and the study of comparative labor politics’, Politics and Society 23(3), 337-67.
57. Manow, P. (2000). ‘Comparative institutional advantages of welfare state regimes and new coalitions in welfare state reforms’, in P. Pierson (ed.), The New Politics of Welfare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 146-64.
58. March, J. G. and Olsen, J. P. (1984). ‘The New Institutionalism: Organizational factors in political life’, American Political Science Review 78, 734-49.
59. Mares, I. (1998). ‘Negotiated risks: Employers’ role in social policy development’, unpub¬lished Ph.D. thesis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Department of Government.
60. Marshall, T. H. (1950). Citizenship and Social Class. The Marshall Lectures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
61. Martin, C. J. (2000). Stuck in Neutral. Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
62. Martin, C. J. and Swank, D. (1999). ‘Employers and the welfare state’, APSA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 1-5 September 1999.
63. Mayntz, R. and Scharpf, F. W. (eds) (1995). Gesellschaftliche Selbstregelung und politische Steuerung. Frankfurt: Campus.
64. Milgrom, P. and Roberts, J. (1994). ‘Complementarities and systems: Understanding Japanese economic organization’, Estudios Economicos 9, 3-42.
65. Offe, C. (1993). ‘Zur Typologie von sozialpolitischen “Regimes” ’, Zeitschrift fur Sozialreform 39(2), 83-6.
66. Okun, A. M. (1975). Equality and Efficiency: The Big Trade-Off. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
67. Pierson, P. (1993). ‘When effect becomes cause: Policy feedback and political change’, World Politics 45, 595-628.
68. Pierson, P. (1995). ‘The scope and nature of business power. Employers and the American welfare state, 1900-1935’, Arbeitspapier 14, Bremen: Zentrum fur Sozialpolitik, University of Bremen.
69. Pierson, P. (1996). ‘The New Politics of the Welfare State’, World Politics 48(2), 143-79.
70. Pierson, P. (1997). ‘Increasing returns, path dependence and the study of politics’, EUI Jean Monnet Chair Papers 44, Florence: European University Institute.
71. Pierson, P. (1998). ‘Irresistible forces, immovable objects: Post-industrial welfare states confront permanent austerity’, Journal of European Public Policy 5(4), 539-60.
72. Pierson, P. (2000). ‘Three worlds of welfare state research’, Comparative Political Studies 33(6/7), 791-821.
73. Piore, M. J. and Sabel, C. F. (1984). The Second Industrial Divide. Possibilities for Prosperity. New York: Basic Books.
74. Polanyi, K. (1944). The Great Transformation. The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Boston: Beacon Press.
75. Powell, W. W. (1990). ‘Neither market nor hierarchy: Network forms of organization’, Research in Organizational Behaviour 12, 295-336.
76. Ragin, C. C. (1987). The Comparative Method. Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
77. Rein, M. and Rainwater, L. (eds) (1986). Public/Private Interplay in Social Protection. A Comparative Study. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
78. Rhodes, M. and van Apeldoorn, B. (1997). ‘Capitalism versus capitalism in Western Europe’, in M. Rhodes, P. Heywood and V. Wright (eds), Developments in West European Politics. London: Macmillan, 171-89.
79. Rieger, E. (1998). ‘Soziologische Theorie und Sozialpolitik im entwickelten Wohlfahrtsstaat’, in S. Lessenich and I. Ostner (eds), Welten des Wohlfakrtskapitalismus. Der Sozialstaat in vergleichender Perspektive. Frankfurt: Campus, 59-90.
80. Rokkan, S. (1999). In P. Flora, S. Kuhnle and D. Urwin (eds), State Formation, Nation- Building and Mass Politics in Europe. The Theory of Stein Rokkan. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
81. Scharpf, F. W. (1997). Games Real Actors Play. Actor-Centered Institutionalism in Policy Research. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
82. Schmidt, V. A. (1996). From State to Market? The Transformation of French Business and Government. New York: Cambridge University.
83. Schmitter, P. C. and Lehmbruch, G. (eds) (1981). Trends Toward Corporatist Intermediation. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
84. Shalev, M. (ed.) (1996). The Privatization of Social Policy? Occupational Welfare and the Welfare State in America, Scandinavia and Japan. London: Macmillan.
85. Shepsle, K. A. (1986). ‘Institutional equilibrium and equilibrium institutions’, in H. F. Weisberg (ed.), Political Science: The Science of Politics. New York: Agathon Press, 51-81.
86. Shonfield, A. (1965). Modern Capitalism. The Changing Balance of Public and Private Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
87. Soskice, D. (1991). ‘The institutional infrastructure for international competitiveness: A comparative analysis of the UK and Germany’, in A. B. Atkinson and R. Brunetta (eds), Economics for the New Europe. London: Macmillan.
88. Soskice, D. (1999). ‘Divergent production regimes: Coordinated and uncoordinated mar¬ket economies in the 1980s and 1990s’, in H. Kitschelt et al. (eds), Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 101-34.
89. Stinchcombe, A. L. (1968). Constructing Social Theories. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.
90. Streeck, W. (1997). ‘Beneficial constraints: On the economic limits of rational volun¬tarism’, in J. R. Hollingsworth and R. Boyer (eds), Contemporary Capitalism. The Embeddedness of Institutions. New York: Cambridge University Press, 197-219.
91. Streeck, W. and Schmitter, P. C. (1985a). ‘Community, market, state-and associations? The prospective contribution of interest governance to social order’, in W. Streeck and P. C. Schmitter (eds), Private Interest Government. Beyond Market and State. London: Sage, 1-29.
92. Streeck, W. and Schmitter, P. C. (eds) (1985b). Private Interest Government. Beyond Market and State. London: Sage.
93. Swenson, P. (1991). ‘Labor and the limits of the welfare state: The politics of intraclass conflict and cross-class alliances in Sweden and West Germany’, Comparative Politics 23, 379-99.
94. Swenson, P. (1997). ‘Arranged alliance: Business interests in the New Deal’, Politics & Society 25, 66-116.
95. Swenson, P. (1999). ‘Varieties of capitalist interests and illusions of labor power: Employers in the making of the Swedish and American welfare states’, Paper for the ‘Conference on Distribution and Democracy’, Yale University, Department of Political Science, 12-14 November 1999.
96. Swenson, P. (forthcoming). Captitalism Against Markets: Employers in the Making of Labour Markets and Welfare States. New York: Oxford University Press.
97. Titmuss, R. M. (1958). Essays on the Welfare State. London: Allen & Unwin.
98. Titmuss, R. M. (1974). Social Policy. An Introduction. London: Allen & Unwin.
99. Van Kersbergen, K. (1995). Social Capitalism. A Study of Christian Democracy and the Welfare State. London: Routledge.
100. Visser, J. (1990). In Search of Inclusive Unionism. Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations 18, Deventer: Kluwer.
101. Williamson, O. E. (1975). Markets and Hierarchies. Analysis and Antitrust Implications. New York: Free Press.
102. Williamson, O. E. (1981). ‘The economic of organization: The transaction cost approach’, American Journal of Sociology 87(3), 548-77.
103. Zysman, J. (1994). ‘How institutions create historically rooted trajectories of growth’, Industrial and Corporate Change 3(1), 243-83.