“…Thus far, the main focus has been on seven countries: Austria, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, the U.K. and the U.S. (see Bowles and Boyer, 1995;Stockhammer and Onaran, 2004;Naastepad, 2006;Naastepad and Storm, 2006-7;2 Ederer and Stockhammer, 2007;Stockhammer and Ederer, 2008;Vogel, 2008, 2009;Onaran et al, 2011;Stockhammer et al, 2011). From these studies, the broad picture emerges that the "demand regime in large and medium-sized 1 "In fact, the long-run trend is but a slowly changing component of a chain of short-period situations; it has no independent entity …" (Kalecki, 1968, p. 263).…”