Integrating Varieties of Capitalism and Welfare State Research [electronic resource] : A Unified Typology of Capitalisms /
Schröder, Martin.author.
This book combines the two most important typologies of capitalist diversity; Esping-Andersen's welfare regime typology and Hall and Soskice's 'Varieties of Capitalism' typology, into a unified typology of capitalist diversity. The author shows empircally that certain welfare states bundle together with certain production systems.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Welfare State Research and Varieties of Capitalism""; ""1.1 Welfare state research""; ""1.1.1 Weaknesses of Esping-Andersen's welfare regime typology""; ""1.2 Varieties of capitalism""; ""1.2.1 Complementarity""; ""1.2.2 The coordination index""; ""1.2.3 Weaknesses of Hall and Soskice's varieties of capitalism typology""; ""1.3 Why it makes sense to combine nations into regimes""; ""2 Empirical Indicators and Existing Typologies""; ""2.1 Verifying diversity empirically""
""2.2 Combining the country clusters of existing typologies""""2.2.1 Three capitalisms: Schmidt's typology""; ""2.2.2 Four capitalisms: Boyer's typology""; ""2.2.3 Five capitalisms: Amable's typology""; ""2.2.4 Again five capitalisms: Ebbinghaus' typology""; ""2.2.5 Ever more diversity: Crouch and Streeck's typology""; ""2.3 Dealing with outlier countries""; ""2.4 A methodological interlude â€? how to build typologies""; ""3 A Unified Typology of Capitalisms""; ""4 How Complementarities Stabilize Three Capitalisms""; ""4.1 Welfare regimes and industrial relations""
""5.1.7 Summing up liberal capitalism""""5.2 Conservatively coordinated capitalism""; ""5.2.1 Germany""; ""5.2.2 Austria""; ""5.2.3 Switzerland""; ""5.2.4 Belgium""; ""5.2.5 France""; ""5.2.6 The Netherlands""; ""5.2.7 Italy""; ""5.2.8 Spain""; ""5.2.9 Portugal""; ""5.2.10 Japan""; ""5.2.11 Summing up conservatively coordinated capitalism""; ""5.3 Social democratically coordinated capitalism""; ""5.3.1 Sweden""; ""5.3.2 Denmark""; ""5.3.3 Finland""; ""5.3.4 Norway""; ""5.3.5 Summing up social democratically coordinated capitalism""; ""5.4 Summary and limitations of the approach""
""6 What Can a Unified Typology Explain?""""6.1 How a unified typology can explain more than existing typologies""; ""6.2 How a unified typology can explain trajectories of liberalization""; ""Summary and Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Appendix""; ""A. Data used""; ""B. Factor loadings""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book combines the two most important typologies of capitalist diversity; Esping-Andersen's welfare regime typology and Hall and Soskice's 'Varieties of Capitalism' typology, into a unified typology of capitalist diversity. The author shows empircally that certain welfare states bundle together with certain production systems.
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