The changing political economies of small West European countries / / Uwe Becker (ed.).

• Superior document: Changing welfare states
• TeilnehmendeR: Becker, Uwe, 1951-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Changing welfare states.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (237 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).

This important volume sheds light on a group of smaller European countries, often overlooked in economic discussions, that share a high degree of corporatism - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. The contributors to this book investigate the various trajectories of these countries' economies, with particular consideration devoted to their welfare systems, corporate governance, and labor markets from the early 1990s to the economic crisis of 2008. Importantly, 'The Changing Political Economies of Small West European Countries' also investigates various nations as possible socio-economic models for pan-European capitalism.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. The variety of capitalism in Sweden and Finland : continuity through change -- 3. Change and continuity in Danish and Norwegian capitalism : corporatism and beyond -- 4. Coming together but staying apart : continuity and change in the Austrian and Swiss varieties of capitalism -- 5. Liberal convergence, growing outcome divergence? Institutional continuity and changing trajectories in the "low countries" -- 6. Small countries, big countries under conditions of Europeanisation and globalisation -- 7. The small corporate political economies as European socio-economic model?