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This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing on developments in industrial relations, vocational education and training, and labor market policy. It finds that there are in fact distinct varieties of liberalization associated with very different distributive outcomes. Most scholarship equates liberal capitalism with inequality and coordinated capitalism with higher levels of social solidarity. However, this study explains why the institutions of coordinated capitalism and egalitarian capitalism coincided and complemented one another in the 'Golden Era' of postwar development in the 1950s and 1960s, and why they no longer do so. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, this study reveals that the successful defense of the institutions traditionally associated with coordinated capitalism has often been a recipe for increased inequality due to declining coverage and dualization. Conversely, it argues that some forms of labor market liberalization are perfectly compatible with continued high levels of social solidarity and indeed may be necessary to sustain it.
Labor market --- Labor policy --- Industrial relations --- Capitalism --- Marché du travail --- Travail --- Travail, Politique du --- Relations industrielles --- Capitalisme --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Politique gouvernementale --- Libéralisme économique --- Politique du travail --- Solidarité --- #SBIB:316.334.2A470 --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Labor --- State and labor --- Economic policy --- Employees --- Market, Labor --- Supply and demand for labor --- Markets --- Arbeidssociologie: het sociaal-economisch overheidsbeleid: algemeen --- Government policy --- Supply and demand --- Marché du travail --- Relations professionnelles --- Solidarité. --- Etats-Unis --- Allemagne --- Danemark --- Suède --- Pays-Bas
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The institutional arrangements governing skill formation are widely seen as a key element in the institutional constellations defining 'varieties of capitalism' across the developed democracies. This book explores the origins and evolution of such institutions in four countries - Germany, Britain, the United States and Japan. It traces cross-national differences in contemporary training regimes back to the nineteenth century, and specifically to the character of the political settlement achieved among employers in skill-intensive industries, artisans, and early trade unions. The book also tracks evolution and change in training institutions over a century of development, uncovering important continuities through putative 'break points' in history. Crucially, it also provides insights into modes of institutional change that are incremental but cumulatively transformative. The study underscores the limits of the most prominent approaches to institutional change, and identifies the political processes through which the form and functions of institutions can be radically reconfigured over time.
World history --- anno 1800-1999 --- United States --- Germany --- Great Britain --- Japan --- Employees --- Occupational training --- Training of --- Training --- Politics --- Personnel --- Formation professionnelle --- Case studies. --- Case studies --- Formation --- Cas, Etudes de --- #SBIB:316.334.1O212 --- #SBIB:316.334.1O222 --- #SBIB:316.334.1O350 --- #SBIB:35H433 --- Job training --- Manpower development and training --- Manpower training programs --- Vocational training --- Laborers --- Workers --- Onderwijsbeleid: nationaal --- Organisatie van het onderwijs: regionaal --- Onderwijs en economie --- Beleidssectoren: onderwijs- en onderzoeksbeleid --- Education --- Education and training services industry --- Practice firms --- Persons --- Industrial relations --- Personnel management --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Employees - Training of - Europe - Case studies --- Employees - Training of - United States - Case studies --- Employees - Training - Japan - Case studies --- Occupational training - Europe - Case studies --- Occupational training - United States - Case studies --- Occupational training - Japan - Case studies --- United States of America
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This book contributes to emerging debates in political science and sociology on institutional change. Its introductory essay proposes a new framework for analyzing incremental change that is grounded in a power-distributional view of institutions and that emphasizes ongoing struggles within but also over prevailing institutional arrangements. Five empirical essays then bring the general theory to life by evaluating its causal propositions in the context of sustained analyses of specific instances of incremental change. These essays range widely across substantive topics and across times and places, including cases from the United States, Africa, Latin America, and Asia. The book closes with a chapter reflecting on the possibilities for productive exchange in the analysis of change among scholars associated with different theoretical approaches to institutions.
Sociology of organization --- Organization theory --- Organizational change. --- Institutional economics. --- Changement organisationnel --- Institutionnalisme --- Organizational change --- Institutional economics --- #SBIB:324H70 --- #SBIB:35H300 --- 352.367 --- Economics --- Change, Organizational --- Organization development --- Organizational development --- Organizational innovation --- Management --- Organization --- Manpower planning --- Politieke verandering: algemeen --- Organisatieleer: algemene werken --- Social Sciences --- Political Science
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"This book examines current theories of institutional change. The chapters highlight the limitations of these theories. Instead a model emerges of contemporary political economies developing in incremental but cumulatively transformative processes"--Provided by publisher.
Economic policy and planning (general) --- Europe --- Institutional economics --- Organizational change --- Capitalism --- Institutionnalisme --- Changement organisationnel --- Capitalisme --- Case studies. --- Cas, Etudes de --- #SBIB:324H70 --- #SBIB:35H305 --- 316.4 --- AA / International- internationaal --- 321.2 --- 331.31 --- 330.48 --- NBB congres --- -Organizational change --- -Capitalism --- -338.501 --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Change, Organizational --- Organization development --- Organizational development --- Organizational innovation --- Management --- Organization --- Manpower planning --- Politieke verandering: algemeen --- Organisatieleer: organisatieverandering --- Sociale processen --- Economisch beleid van de overheid. --- Economisch beleid. --- Neo-klassiekers en andere post-keynesiaanse theorieën. Public choice. Institutionalisten. Home economics. Analyseschool van de transactiekosten. --- 316.4 Sociale processen --- 338.501 --- Economisch beleid van de overheid --- Neo-klassiekers en andere post-keynesiaanse theorieën. Public choice. Institutionalisten. Home economics. Analyseschool van de transactiekosten --- Economisch beleid --- Institutional change --- Advanced political economies --- E-books --- Institutional economics - Case studies --- Organizational change - Europe - Case studies --- Capitalism - Europe - Case studies --- Organizational change - United States - Case studies --- Capitalism - United States - Case studies
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Against the backdrop of an explosion of interest in new techniques for data collection and theory testing, this volume provides a fresh programmatic statement about comparative-historical analysis. It examines the advances and distinctive contributions that CHA has made to theory generation and the explanation of large-scale outcomes that newer approaches often regard as empirically intractable. An introductory essay locates the sources of CHA's enduring influence in core characteristics that distinguish this approach, such as its attention to process and its commitment to empirically grounded, deep case-based research. Subsequent chapters explore broad research programs inspired by CHA work, new analytic tools for studying temporal processes and institutional dynamics, and recent methodological tools for analyzing sequences and for combining CHA work with other approaches. This volume is essential reading for scholars seeking to learn about the sources of CHA's enduring influence and its contemporary analytical and methodological techniques.
Sociological theory building --- Methods in social research (general) --- Social sciences --- Research --- Methodology. --- Methodology
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This volume brings together original essays by scholars working on a diverse range of empirical issues, but whose work is in each case informed by a 'historical institutional' approach to the study of politics. By bringing these pieces together, the volume highlights the methodological and theoretical foundations of this approach and illustrates the general contributions it has made to comparative politics. The essays demonstrate the potential of the approach to illuminate a broad range of issues such as how and why institutions change, how political ideas are filtered through institutional structures in the formation of specific policies, and how institutional structure can have unintended effects on the shaping of policy. The reader is provided with both a thorough understanding of the method of analysis and an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of the approach.
Comparative government --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Gouvernement comparé --- Government [Comparative ] --- Institutional economics --- Institutionalisme --- Institutions politiques -- Études comparatives --- Institutions politiques comparées --- Institutions sociales --- Nouvelle économie --- Political systems [Comparative ] --- Politique comparée --- Régimes politiques --- Social institutions --- Sociale instellingen --- Vergelijkend bestuur --- Économie institutionnaliste --- Économie institutionnelle --- 316.334.3 --- 316.32.001.36 --- 321.008 --- Politieke sociologie --- Comparatieve sociologie. Vergelijkende sociologie --- Organisatieaspecten van de staat. Politiek systeem. Politieke structuur. Politieke besluitvorming --- Comparative government. --- Institutional economics. --- Social institutions. --- 321.008 Organisatieaspecten van de staat. Politiek systeem. Politieke structuur. Politieke besluitvorming --- 316.32.001.36 Comparatieve sociologie. Vergelijkende sociologie --- 316.334.3 Politieke sociologie --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Political science --- Institutions, Social --- Social systems --- Sociology --- Social structure --- Economics --- Social Sciences --- Political Science
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This volume brings together leading political scientists to explore the distinctive features of the American political economy. The introductory chapter provides a comparatively informed framework for analyzing the interplay of markets and politics in the United States, focusing on three key factors: uniquely fragmented and decentralized political institutions; an interest group landscape characterized by weak labor organizations and powerful, parochial business groups; and an entrenched legacy of ethno-racial divisions embedded in both government and markets. Subsequent chapters look at the fundamental dynamics that result, including the place of the courts in multi-venue politics, the political economy of labor, sectional conflict within and across cities and regions, the consolidation of financial markets and corporate monopoly and monopsony power, and the ongoing rise of the knowledge economy. Together, the chapters provide a revealing new map of the politics of democratic capitalism in the United States.
Income distribution --- Wealth --- Political aspects --- Affluence --- Distribution of wealth --- Fortunes --- Riches --- Business --- Economics --- Finance --- Capital --- Money --- Property --- Well-being --- Distribution of income --- Income inequality --- Inequality of income --- Distribution (Economic theory) --- Disposable income
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