The Changing Political Economies of Small West European Countries (Amsterdam University Press - Changing Welfare States Series)

✍ Scribed by Uwe Becker

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

The Changing Political Economies of Small West European Countries......Page 2
Table of Contents......Page 6
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 10
1 Introduction......Page 12
2 The Variety of Capitalism in Sweden and Finland Continuity Through Change......Page 46
3 Change and Continuity in Danish and Norwegian Capitalism: Corporatism and Beyond......Page 74
4 Coming Together But Staying Apart Continuity and Change in the Austrian and Swiss Varieties of Capitalism......Page 100
5 Liberal Convergence, Growing Outcome Divergence? Institutional Continuity and Changing Trajectories in the ‘Low Countries’......Page 126
6 Small Countries, Big Countries under Conditions of Europeanisation and Globalisation......Page 150
7 The Small Corporatist Political Economies as European Socio-Economic Model?*......Page 174
About the Authors......Page 200
Bibliography......Page 204
Index......Page 234