Full Description
The literature on changing varieties of capitalism concentrates on the big economies, particularly the US, Japan and Germany. This important volume sheds light on the group of smaller European countries that share a high degree of corporatism - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. Most of them have recently been praised as alter native models to the route exemplified by the US. The authors investigate the trajectories of these countries welfare systems, corporate governance, labour markets and industrial relations from about 1990 until the economic crisis in 2008. The volume also tracks their position in the processes of European integration and asks whether their particular brands of capitalism might be a viable candidate for the European socio-economic model.
Contents
The Changing Political Economies of Small West European Countries - 2[-]Table of Contents - 6[-]Preface and Acknowledgements - 10[-]1 Introduction - 12[-]2 The Variety of Capitalism in Sweden and Finland Continuity Through Change - 46[-]3 Change and Continuity in Danish and Norwegian Capitalism: Corporatism and Beyond - 74[-]4 Coming Together But Staying Apart Continuity and Change in the Austrian and Swiss Varieties of Capitalism - 100[-]5 Liberal Convergence, Growing Outcome Divergence?Institutional Continuity and Changing Trajectories in the'Low Countries' - 126[-]6 Small Countries, Big Countries under Conditions of Europeanisation and Globalisation - 150[-]7 The Small Corporatist Political Economies as European Socio-Economic Model?* - 174[-]About the Authors - 200[-]Bibliography - 204[-]Index - 234
