246 The Politics of Advanced Capitalism

Friday, July 10, 2015: 9:00 AM-10:45 AM
J208 (13 rue de l'Université)
Beramendi, Pablo, Silja Häusermann, Herbert Kitschelt and Hanspeter Kriesi (2015). The Politics of Advanced Capitalism. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.

This edited volume is a sequel to two distinguished predecessors: Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism (CUP, 1999), itself a follow up on the earlier Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism(OUP, 1985). Both volumes took stock of major economic challenges advanced industrial democracies faced, as well as the ways political and economic elites dealt with them. However, during the last decades, the structural environment of advanced capitalist democracies has undergone profound changes: sweeping deindustrialization, tertiarization of the employment structure and demographic developments.

This volume provides a synthetic view allowing the reader to grasp the nature of these structural transformations, and their consequences in terms of the politics of change, policy outputs and outcomes. In contrast to functionalist and structuralist approaches, the book advocates and contributes to a “return of electoral and coalitional politics” to political economy research.

Organizer:
Silja Häusermann
Chair:
Silja Häusermann
Discussants:
Jonas Pontusson , Peter A Hall , Bruno Palier , Michael Becher , Jonathan Hopkin and Pablo Beramendi
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