Comparative political economy : states, markets and global capitalism

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Clift, Ben, author.

ISBN:

9780230555167

9780230555174

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Clift, Ben, author.

Publication Information:

Basingstoke : Palgrave macmillan, 2014.

Physical Description:

xvii, 372 pages ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: The Focus and Rationale of the Book -- The aims of the book -- What is political economy? -- What is comparative political economy? -- Comparative political economy and the global dimension -- The rationale, organization and focus of the book -- How to use the book -- 2.Comparative Political Economy: Lineages from Classical Political Economy, Linkages to International Political Economy -- Introduction -- Disciplinary politics and classical political economy -- Why is the history of political economy so important for contemporary comparative political economy? -- Comparative political economy: the core insights -- Comparative political economy: linkages to international political economy -- Conclusion: conceptions of the market, disciplinarity and political economy -- 3.Capitalism and Classical Political Economy -- Introduction -- Classical political economy and capitalism -- Adam Smith and classical liberal political economy --

Contents note continued: Economic nationalist political economy -- Marxian political economy -- Conclusion -- 4.Disciplinary Politics and the Genealogy of Comparative Political Economy -- Introduction -- Disciplinary politics -- To generalize or not to generalize? The origins of the rift in political economy -- The debate on method in political economy: the German Historical School -- The debate on method in political economy: Marx and historical materialism -- The debate on method in political economy: marginalist political economy -- The Methodenstreit and comparative political economy -- Comparative political economy after the Methodenstreit -- Comparative political economy and debates over the role of the state in the economy: Keynes and Hayek -- Conclusion -- 5.Institutional Analysis and Comparative Political Economy -- Introduction -- The argument: capitalism, political economy and institutions -- Institutionalisms, path dependency and comparative capitalisms --

Contents note continued: Individuals and the institutional and social context: determinist temptations -- The functionalist temptation and institutional complementarity -- Institutional analysis and political economic change -- Historical institutionalism revisited: ideational institutionalism -- Institutionalism and capitalist convergence -- Conclusion: institutions and capitalism -- 6.Interest-based Analysis and Comparative Political Economy -- Introduction -- Using interests to explain outcomes: Marxism, corporatism, and corporate governance and trade policy coalitions -- What is `rational choice'? -- Public choice theory -- Reformulated rationalism: rethinking interest-based comparative political economy -- Conclusion -- 7.Ideational Analysis and Comparative Political Economy -- Introduction -- The power and contingency of economic ideas -- `New' political economy: ideas, structure and agency -- The power of economic ideas and the ideational turn in political economy --

Contents note continued: Constructivist political economy -- Critical political economy / Robert Cox -- Tools for comparative political economy analysis: policy paradigms -- Changing dominant economic orthodoxies: from the `liberal creed' to `embedded liberalism' -- Conclusion -- 8.The Comparative Political Economy of the State -- Introduction -- Conceptualizing the state and state/market relations -- The comparative political economy of the state -- State transformation and the politics of economic ideas -- The empirical assessment: advanced state capacities in a global economy -- Qualitative assessment: state forms and state transformation -- The Japanese developmental state -- Is China a capitalist developmental state? -- The transformation of state capacity: `new state activism' and the reinvention of control in the economy -- Conclusion -- 9.Comparative Capitalisms -- Introduction -- Classical political economy and comparative capitalisms --

Contents note continued: Varieties of Capitalism: interpreting the trajectory of capitalist restructuring -- How to compare capitalisms: using and abusing ideal types -- Ideas, embeddedness and institutional change within comparative capitalisms -- Tracing processes of capitalist change: the changing Japanese political economy -- Tracing processes of capitalist change: the American political economy -- Conclusion: interpreting capitalist restructuring -- not convergence but hybridization? -- 10.The Comparative Political Economy of Finance and Corporate Governance -- Introduction -- The comparative political economy of stakeholder and shareholder capitalism -- Building finance capitalism -- Global capitalism, internationalizing finance and national financial systems -- The comparative political economy of financialization -- What's left of national financial systems? Tracing processes of financial change -- France's changing financial system and corporate capitalism --

Contents note continued: Germany's changing financial system and corporate capitalism -- Conclusion -- 11.The Comparative Political Economy of Welfare -- Introduction -- Defining and analysing welfare restructuring -- Welfare capitalism and the politics of retrenchment -- Classical political economy and the political economy of the welfare state -- Comparative welfare states, comparative welfare capitalisms -- Globalization and welfare state retrenchment: a convergent `race to the bottom'? -- The compensation thesis -- Empirical adjudication: `welfare effort' and welfare spending -- Empirical adjudication: social rights and welfare state `recalibration' -- A new welfare capitalist settlement? -- Conclusion -- 12.The Comparative Method and Comparative Political Economy -- Introduction: disciplinary politics and comparative social science -- The building blocks of theory: epistemology and ontology -- The comparative method, political economy and disciplinary politics --

Contents note continued: Comparative political economy and methodological pluralism -- How to compare: the logic of comparative analysis -- The logic of comparative research design -- Conclusion -- 13.Conclusion -- Disciplinary politics and classical political economy -- Methodological pluralism and comparative political economy -- Comparative political economy: the core insights -- Recurrent substantive themes for 21st-century comparative political economy -- Comparative political economy: the road ahead -- Conclusion.

Subject Term:

Comparative economics.

Capitalism.

Political science.

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This major new text introduces the analytical tools required to understand and interpret 21st century advanced capitalism and its evolution in the wake of the global financial crisis. Placing Comparative Political Economy in the context of key concepts and theoretical debates in the long-established field of Political Economy, it maps the terrain, substantive focus and evolution of the comparative approach. Furthermore, it connects Comparative Political Economy systematically to the subfield of International Political Economy (IPE), making the case for cross-fertilisation between these closely related fields. Re-invigorating the debate in the wake of the global financial crisis and the dramatic political interventions that followed, this text offers an entirely fresh and holistic review of comparative political economy.

Ben Clift, a leading figure in the field, rethinks the supposed boundaries between comparative and international political economy, highlighting the how disciplines complement each other in an era where economic activity is increasingly shaped by political and social influence.

Upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates studying Comparative Political Economy or a subject related to Political Economy will find this book essential. As the topics and disciplinary themes covered by this text are broad, students of more general Politics or International Relations courses will also be well served by this text.