Diversity and the dynamics of capitalism

Amable, Bruno

doi:10.4337/ejeep.2018.02.13

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“…Social blocs advance different political strategies (especially, sets of economic policies, see Amable 2018Amable , 2019a). These differences emerge from the specific characteristics of the social groups that compose each bloc, rendering ideology an epiphenomenon in the context of material conflict and compromise.…”

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From social bloc to historical bloc: Politics, social relations and ideology in political economy

Avigur-Eshel

Filc

2022

Capital & Class

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The way that the economy, politics and ideology interact to maintain stability or bring about change is a central concern for political economy. The social bloc perspective, as elaborated by Amable and Palombarini, provides a promising framework with which to address this question due to its attempt to combine an emphasis on the economic structure with a more central role for politics and ideology. This article argues, however, that the social bloc perspective still retains a rather functional understanding of these two concepts. We contend that a neo-Gramscian approach focusing on hegemonic struggles and adopting a complex conceptualisation of class can overcome these functionalist tendencies, because it perceives politics and ideology as crucial factors in the formation of social groups and the emergence and actions of social blocs. We further claim that a neo-Gramscian approach has broader applicability. To ground our claims empirically, we analyse a case which cannot be accounted for by the social bloc perspective. This is a case in which two social blocs composing different social groups with rivalling worldviews shared some meaningful ideological beliefs and cooperated politically to realise them.

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“…Ideology, according to this approach, is an epiphenomenon of the emergence of social blocs. Politicians employ 'political strategies' (Amable 2018(Amable , 2019a to consolidate social blocs, define what is a legitimate concern of public policy, and meet challenges from social groups outside the bloc.…”

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From social bloc to historical bloc: Politics, social relations and ideology in political economy

Avigur-Eshel

Filc

2022

Capital & Class

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Welfare models and demand-led growth regimes before and after the financial and economic crisis

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Meloni

Tridico

2020

Review of International Political Economy

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Recently, several interesting attempts have been made at connecting comparative political economy (CPE) approaches, as the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) theory, with post-Keynesian (PK) research on different demand-led growth regimes in modern capitalism, and for the period of finance-dominated capitalism since the early 1980s in particular. However, we find several problems in the way Kaleckian and PK approaches are interpreted and integrated in modern CPE approaches. Therefore, we first clarify several ambiguities and misunderstandings of PK demand-led growth regimes and their empirical indicators in the recent CPE literature, and, following the recent PK literature, we provide a theoretically consistent and empirically applicable classification of demand and growth regimes under the conditions of finance-dominate capitalism. Second, instead of using the traditional VoC dual classification, we link and confront the PK demand and growth regimes with the recent evolution of Esping-Andersen's (1990) taxonomy which considers five welfare models. Third, we examine the relationships between demand-led growth regimes and welfare models, both before and after the 2007-9 global crisis. For this purpose, we share the qualitative taxonomy suggested by Hay and Wincott (2012), and additionally we quantitatively assess the degree of welfare of each country and its evolution by means of a 'principal component analysis' (PCA), which allows us to synthesize four socioeconomic indicators in a multidimensional measure of welfare.

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Balancing the scales: labour incorporation and the politics of growth model transformation

Bondy

Maggor²

2023

New Political Economy

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Diversity and the dynamics of capitalism

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

From social bloc to historical bloc: Politics, social relations and ideology in political economy

From social bloc to historical bloc: Politics, social relations and ideology in political economy

Welfare models and demand-led growth regimes before and after the financial and economic crisis

Balancing the scales: labour incorporation and the politics of growth model transformation

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