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In the early 1980s, many observers, argued that powerful organized
economic interests and social democratic parties created successful
mixed economies promoting economic growth, full employment, and a
modicum of social equality. The present book assembles scholars
with formidable expertise in the study of advanced capitalist
politics and political economy to reexamine this account from the
vantage point of the second half of the 1990s. The authors find
that the conventional wisdom no longer adequately reflects the
political and economic realities. Advanced democracies have
responded in path-dependent fashion to such novel challenges as
technological change, intensifying international competition, new
social conflict, and the erosion of established patterns of
political mobilization. The book rejects, however, the currently
widespread expectation that 'internationalization' makes all
democracies converge on similar political and economic institutions
and power relations. Diversity among capitalist democracies
persists, though in a different fashion than in the 'Golden Age' of
rapid economic growth after World War II.
Capitalist democracies have always displayed considerable diversity in their key political and economic institutions, such as the organization of economic interest groups and private enterprises, the public sector and the welfare state, as well as political parties and social movements. This book asks whether the challenges of new technologies, citizens' preferences, and growing political and economic interdependence in the 1980s and 1990s force all polities to adopt similar institutional reforms. The authors argue that established arrangements have become difficult to sustain, but that countries choose unique trajectories of reform, not a common approach. The diversity among capitalist democracies persists in a new fashion.
This Handbook offers a comprehensive treatment of transformations
of the state, from its origins in different parts of the world and
different time periods to its transformations since World War II in
the advanced industrial countries, the post-Communist world, and
the Global South. Leading experts in their fields, from Europe and
North America, discuss conceptualizations and theories of the state
and the transformations of the state in its engagement with a
changing international environment as well as with changing
domestic economic, social, and political challenges. The Handbook
covers different types of states in the Global South (from failed
to predatory, rentier and developmental), in different kinds of
advanced industrial political economies (corporatist, statist,
liberal, import substitution industrialization), and in various
post-Communist countries (Russia, China, successor states to the
USSR, and Eastern Europe). It also addresses crucial challenges in
different areas of state intervention, from security to financial
regulation, migration, welfare states, democratization and quality
of democracy, ethno-nationalism, and human development. The volume
makes a compelling case that far from losing its relevance in the
face of globalization, the state remains a key actor in all areas
of social and economic life, changing its areas of intervention,
its modes of operation, and its structures in adaption to new
international and domestic challenges.
The work includes a detailed historical account of the Manley
years, focusing on shifting relations between contending social
forces and on the interaction between economics and politics.
Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
The work includes a detailed historical account of the Manley
years, focusing on shifting relations between contending social
forces and on the interaction between economics and politics.
Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
This Handbook offers a comprehensive treatment of transformations
of the state, from its origins in different parts of the world and
different time periods to its transformations since World War II in
the advanced industrial countries, the post-Communist world, and
the Global South. Leading experts in their fields, from Europe and
North America, discuss conceptualizations and theories of the state
and the transformations of the state in its engagement with a
changing international environment as well as with changing
domestic economic, social, and political challenges. The Handbook
covers different types of states in the Global South (from failed
to predatory, rentier and developmental), in different kinds of
advanced industrial political economies (corporatist, statist,
liberal, import substitution industrialization), and in various
post-Communist countries (Russia, China, successor states to the
USSR, and Eastern Europe). It also addresses crucial challenges in
different areas of state intervention, from security to financial
regulation, migration, welfare states, democratization and quality
of democracy, ethno-nationalism, and human development. The volume
makes a compelling case that far from losing its relevance in the
face of globalization, the state remains a key actor in all areas
of social and economic life, changing its areas of intervention,
its modes of operation, and its structures in adaption to new
international and domestic challenges.
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