Imbalance: Germany’s Political Economy after the Social Democratic Century

Schulze-Cleven, Tobias; Rothstein, Sidney A.

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Imbalance: Germany’s Political Economy after the Social Democratic Century

Schulze-Cleven, T., & Rothstein, S. A. (Eds.). (2021). Imbalance: Germany’s Political Economy after the Social Democratic Century. London: Routledge.

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Schulze-Cleven, Tobias¹, Editor
Rothstein, Sidney A.^{2, 3}, Editor

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1Center for Global Work and Employment, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA, ou_persistent22
2Politische Ökonomie von Wachstumsmodellen, MPI for the Study of Societies, Max Planck Society, ou_2489691
3Department of Political Science, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, USA, ou_persistent22

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Abstract: Germany is a central case for research on comparative political economy, which has inspired theorizing on national differences and historical trajectories. This book assesses Germany’s political economy after the end of the "social democratic" 20th century to rethink its dominant properties and create new opportunities for using the country as a powerful lens into the evolution of democratic capitalism.

Documenting large-scale changes and new tensions in the welfare state, company strategies, interest intermediation, and macroeconomic governance, the volume makes the case for analysing contemporary Germany through the politics of imbalance rather than the long-standing paradigm of institutional stability. This conceptual reorientation around inequalities and disparities provides much-needed traction for clarifying the causal dynamics that govern ongoing processes of institutional recomposition. Delving into the politics of imbalance, the volume explicates the systemic properties of capitalism, multivalent policy feedback, and the organizational foundations of creative adjustment as key vantage points for understanding new forms of distributional conflict within and beyond Germany.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of German Politics.

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Language(s): eng - English

Dates: Date issued: 2021

Publication Status: Issued

Pages: xiii, 260

Publishing info: London : Routledge

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1 Beyond Stability: Rethinking Germany's Political Economy
Sidney A. Rothstein and Tobias Schulze-Cleven

2 Germany After the Social Democratic Century: The Political Economy of Imbalance
Sidney A. Rothstein and Tobias Schulze-Cleven

3 Going Up-Skill: Exploring the Transformation of the German Skill Formation System
Niccolo Durazzi and Chiara Benassi

4 Regulating the Transition From Work to Retirement: Towards a New Distribution of Responsibilities Between the State, Social Partners and Companies?
Ute Klammer

5 Strong Firms, Weak Banks: The Financial Consequences of Germany's Export-Led Growth Model
Benjamin Braun and Richard Deeg

6 Financial Market Capitalism and Labour in Germany. Merits and Limits of a Sociological Concept
Thomas Haipeter

7 The Transnational Activities of German Trade Unions and Works Councils: From Foreign Policy to Active Engagement
Stephen J. Silvia

8 Employer Resistance to Works Councils: Evidence from Surveys amongst Trade Unions
Martin Behrens and Heiner Dribbusch

9 The Political Economy of the SPD Reconsidered: Evidence from the Great Recession
Björn Bremer

10 From Sick Man of Europe to the German Economic Power House. Two Narratives: Ordoliberalism versus Euro-Currency Regime
Brigitte Young

11 Inequality in Germany: A Macroeconomic Perspective
Jan Behringer, Nikolaus Kowall, Thomas Theobald and Till Van Treeck

12 Surplus Germany
Wade Jacoby

13 Debating Lessons from Germany After the Social Democratic Century
Walther Müller-Jentsch and Britta Rehder and Sidney A. Rothstein and Tobias Schulze-Cleven

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Identifiers: ISBN: 978-0-367-68354-2
ISBN: 978-1-003-13710-8

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