Economists Handbook or Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism

Economist's Handbook: A Research and Writing Guide

Author: Thomas Wyrick

This text is written for senior undergraduate and first-year graduate students. It systematically develops the skills and proficiencies students need to practice economics after graduation. These skills range from locating and interpreting economic data to writing reports to conducting larger-scale economic studies. Appendices provide supporting material and information about the economics discipline. Can be used as a main text or as a supplement in upper division courses.

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Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism

Author: Herbert Kitschelt

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.

Table of Contents:

	List of Contributors
	Preface
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	The International Setting for Political-Economic Strategies
1	The Global Economy, Post-Fordism, and Trade Policy in Advanced Capitalist States	11
2	The Internationalization of Capital	36
3	The Making of a Polity: The Struggle over European Integration	70
Pt. II	The Dynamics of Domestic Political Economies
4	Divergent Production Regimes: Coordinated and Uncoordinated Market Economies in the 1980s and 1990s	101
5	The Political Economy of Europe in an Era of Interdependence	135
6	The Welfare State in Hard Times	164
7	Postwar Trade-Union Organization and Industrial Relations in Twelve Countries	194
8	Social Democratic Labor Market Institutions: A Retrospective Analysis	231
9	The Declining Significance of Male Workers: Trade-Union Responses to Changing Labor Markets	261
Pt. III	Political Economy and Democratic Competition
10	Politics without Class: Postindustrial Cleavages in Europe and America	293
11	European Social Democracy between Political Economy and Electoral Competition	317
12	Contemporary Christian Democracy and the Demise of the Politics of Mediation	346
13	The Political Economy of Neoliberalism: Britain and the United States in the 1980s	371
14	Movements of the Left, Movements of the Right: Putting the Mobilization of Two New Types of Social Movements into Political Context	398
Pt. IV	Conclusion
15	Convergence and Divergence in Advanced Capitalist Democracies	427
	References	461
	Index	511