Menz, Georg. 2017. Comparative Political Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199579983 [Book]

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This new and comprehensive volume covering the subfield of comparative political economy provides a detailed overview over its intellectual roots, clarifies its contents, and introduces the readers to key debates while identifying new and exciting avenues for future research. Ideas, interests, and institutions have traditionally been the main focus points of this field, but the volume argues that culture provides an additional and often neglected area, providing the 'glue' that keeps national models of capitalism hanging together. The volume also develops pathways beyond the varieties of capitalism paradigm. Building on a thorough and rigorous review of comparative capitalisms and a synthesis of the research strands that have built the bedrock of this subfield, Comparative Political Economy explores the individual components of national models of capitalism and argues that these elements deserve closer scrutiny. Their permutations have been considerable over the past thirty years, and their study permits valuable insights both empirically and theoretically. The empirical coverage of the book includes chapters covering industrial relations, labour markets, systems of education and training, finance, welfare state, and debt. In the conclusion, research pathways forward are identified and the impact of energy security issues and environmental factors on the study of comparative capitalisms will be assessed.

Item Type:	Book
Keywords:	Political economy, Comparative politics
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Politics
Date:	30 November 2017
Item ID:	24786
Date Deposited:	02 Nov 2018 16:44
Last Modified:	02 Nov 2018 16:44
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/24786

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