Varieties of Capitalism: And Then There Was One?

Howell, Chris; Hall, Peter A.; Soskice, David; Streeck, Wolfgang; Yamamura, Kozo; Coates, David

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“…Anzumerken bleibt, dass der funktionalismus der bifurcated convergence-these auch von Autoren zurückgewiesen wurde, die der VoC-schule im engeren sinne zugerechnet werden können (siehe beispielsweise Hancké et al 2007b, s. 12-14;vergleiche auch Höpner 2005;Howell 2003;streeck 2005 und viele andere). Die these hat zwei hohe Plausibilitätshürden zu nehmen.…”

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“Varieties of Capitalism” as a School of Comparative Policy Research

Höpner

2009

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Zusammenfassung: Der Beitrag knüpft an die von Manfred G. schmidt entwickelte unterscheidung von schulen der vergleichenden staatstätigkeitsforschung an und schlägt eine erweiterung der unterschiedenen schulen um die "spielarten des Kapitalismus"-Literatur (Varieties of Capitalism, VoC) vor. Dieser Literaturzweig zielte ursprünglich auf Analyse der institutionellen Grundlagen der Wettbewerbskraft von unternehmen und Volkswirtschaften. Wie der Beitrag im einzelnen darlegt, haben sich die sechs Grundannahmen dieser Literatur zu einer Perspektive verdichtet, aus der systematisch distinkte Hypothesen zur vergleichenden staatstätigkeitsforschung folgen. Dies wird anhand von drei Beispielen gezeigt: anhand der "revisionistischen" Wohlfahrtsstaatsdebatte, anhand neuerer Forschung zur geschlechtsspezifischen Segregation und anhand von thesen zu den produktionsregimebezogenen Voraussetzungen erfolgreicher makroökonomischer steuerung. Der Beitrag schließt mit einer Diskussion der Implikationen der vorgeschlagenen erweiterung für die vergleichende staatstätigkeitsforschung.Schlüsselwörter: Vergleichende staatstätigkeitsforschung · Vergleichende Politische Ökonomie · spielarten des Kapitalismus "Varieties of Capitalism" as a School of Comparative Policy ResearchAbstract: this article refers to Manfred G. schmidt's distinction between different schools of comparative policy research and proposes expanding the list of schools by including the varieties of capitalism (VoC) literature as a distinct school. Originally, VoC aimed at examining the institutional foundations of the level of competitiveness of firms and nations. As the article shows, the six basic concepts of VoC condensed into a perspective that allows for deduction of hypotheses in comparative policy research. the article provides three illustrations: the new "revisionist" debate on the welfare state, new research on gender-specific segregation, and theses on the production regime-oriented preconditions of successful macroeconomic policy. the article ends with a discussion about the implications for future comparative policy research.

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“Varieties of Capitalism” as a School of Comparative Policy Research

Höpner

2009

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“…For example, until the 1980s arguably the UK displayed elements of the CME model, such as multi-employer collective bargaining in many industrial sectors. After the election of the Thatcher government in 1979, the UK moved closer to the LME ideal type (Howell 2003). However, in the context of prolonged economic stagnation in the UK following the global economic recession of 2008-09, there are early indications that employers and unions in a few industries in the UK may be moving back towards CME-type arrangements for regulating ER (Heery et al 2017).…”

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Beyond National Systems, Towards a ‘Gig Economy’? A Research Agenda for International and Comparative Employment Relations

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Employ Respons Rights J

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This journal (Volume 29, Issue 3, 2017) included four review essays that focussed on the 6th edition of the book International and Comparative Employment Relations: National Regulation, Global Changes (Bamber et al. 2016). This article reflects on these essays. It begins to develop a novel multi-scalar analytical framework for comparing employment relations internationally, which includes the influence of the institutional dynamics of industrial sectors and global production networks as well as national systems. It also discusses three aspects of the gig economy. Further it proposes a research agenda that would look beyond Varieties of Capitalism approaches, to embrace a more dynamic and diverse array of regulatory systems, including the gig economy and other developments in the world of work and employment relations.

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“…Despite the many criticisms of VoC (too little attention to politics, too functionalist; see, for example, Howell 2003) the VoC framework is the starting point for much of the comparative political economy literature today. We welcome this development and want to focus on two issues that we think merit more attention: the importance of human capital formation for varieties of capitalism (VoC) research and the need for a deeper understanding of differences among coordinated market economies.…”

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confidence: 99%