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

✍ Scribed by Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Philip Manow

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 346
• Series: Routledge/EUI Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 9
List of tables......Page 10
List of contributors......Page 12
Series editors' preface......Page 14
Preface by......Page 16
Acknowledgements......Page 22
Abbreviations......Page 23
Introduction: studying varieties of welfare capitalism......Page 24
Business coordination, wage bargaining and the welfare state: Germany and Japan in comparative historical perspective......Page 50
Strategic bargaining and social policy development: unemployment insurance in France and Germany......Page 75
When labour and capital collude: the political economy of early retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA......Page 99
Welfare state regimes and industrial relations systems: the questionable role of path dependency theory......Page 128
Social partnership, welfare state regimes and working time in Europe......Page 148
The governance of the employment welfare relationship in Britain and Germany......Page 169
Between financial commitment, market liquidity and corporate governance: occupational pensions in Britain, Germany, Japan and the USA......Page 194
The forgotten link: the financial regulation of Japanese pension funds in comparative perspective......Page 213
The experience of negotiated reforms in the Dutch and German welfare states......Page 240
The challenge of de-industrialisation: divergent ideological responses to welfare state reform......Page 262
Employment and the welfare state: a continental dilemma......Page 293
The politics of elective affinities: a commentary......Page 310
Varieties of welfare capitalism: an outlook on future directions of research......Page 327
Index......Page 339