Imbalance - Germany’s Political Economy after the Social Democratic Century

Germany is a central case for research on comparative political economy, which has inspired theorizing on national differences and historical trajectories. This book assesses Germany’s political economy after the end of the "social democratic" 20th century to rethink its dominant properties and create new opportunities for using the country as a powerful lens into the evolution of democratic capitalism. Documenting large-scale changes and new tensions in the welfare state, company strategies, interest intermediation, and macroeconomic governance, the volume makes the case for analysing contemporary Germany through the politics of imbalance rather than the long-standing paradigm of institutional stability. This conceptual reorientation around inequalities and disparities provides much-needed traction for clarifying the causal dynamics that govern ongoing processes of institutional recomposition. Delving into the politics of imbalance, the volume explicates the systemic properties of capitalism, multivalent policy feedback, and the organizational foundations of creative adjustment as key vantage points for understanding new forms of distributional conflict within and beyond Germany. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of German Politics.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2023
First published:	2021
Editors:	Tobias Schulze-Cleven • Sidney A. Rothstein
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Pages:	260
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-68356-6
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-367-68356-3
Barcode:	9780367683566

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