Full title: The political construction of business interests : coordination, growth, and equality / Cathie Jo Martin, Boston University, Duane Swank, Marquette University, Wisconsin.

Author/creator: Swank, Duane, Martin, Cathie J.

Date: 2012..

Call Numbers: N338.9/455

Record Identifier: 74VvgX4pWOEb

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xv, 307 pages ; 24 cm., , , , Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Collective political engagement and the welfare state; 2. The political origins of coordinated capitalism; 3. The political origins of Danish employers' associations; 4. British experiments in national employers' organization; 5. Sectional parties, divided business in the United States; 6. The origins of sector coordination in Germany; 7. Twenty-first century breakdown: challenges to coordination in the post-industrial age; 8. Institutional sources of firms' preferences for the welfare state; 9. Employers, coordination, and active labor market policy in post-industrial Denmark; 10. Employers, coordination, and active labor market policy in post-industrial Britain; 11. The failure of coordination and rise of dualism in Germany; 12. The political foundations of redistribution and equality; Conclusion: 13. Social solidarity after the crisis of finance capitalism.

Publishers: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Notes: Cambridge studies in comparative politics. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 338.9

MMS ID: 991012306009702626