The Politics of Advanced Capitalism [Hardcover]

This book takes stock of the major economic and political challenges advanced capitalist democracies face today.This book takes stock of the major economic and political challenges advanced capitalist democracies face today. It provides a synthetic view, allowing the reader to grasp the nature of key structural transformations and their consequences in terms of the politics of change, policy outputs, and outcomes.This book takes stock of the major economic and political challenges advanced capitalist democracies face today. It provides a synthetic view, allowing the reader to grasp the nature of key structural transformations and their consequences in terms of the politics of change, policy outputs, and outcomes.This book serves as a sequel to two distinguished volumes on capitalism: Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism (Cambridge, 1999) and Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism (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 book 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.1. Introduction: the politics of advanced capitalism Pablo Beramendi, Silja H?usermann, Herbert Kitschelt and Hanspeter Kriesi; Part I. Structural Transformations: 2. Prosperity and the evolving structure of advanced economies Carles Boix; 3. The origins of dualism David Rueda, Erik Wibbels and Melina Altamiral£r