This paper provides a historical overview of comparative political economy as an interdisciplinary field of study anchored in political science and focused on advanced capitalist states. We argue that this field of inquiry has reached an impasse and that a more sustained engagement with...

The growth models perspective analyzes the role of social blocs in crafting countries' economic policies, but its treatment of business power as purely structural prevents it from addressing an important question in the politics of digital transformation: How have new sectors with miniscule...

The discipline of comparative political economy (CPE) relies heavily on aggregate, country-level economic indicators. However, the practices of multinational corporations have increasingly undermined this approach to measurement. The problem of indicator drift is well-documented by a growing...

Dieser Beitrag analysiert Deutschlands exportorientiertes Wachstumsmodell in den Jahren 1991 bis 2019. Er richtet sich speziell an Leserinnen und Leser mit Interesse an politökonomischen Problemstellungen, aber ohne spezielle Vorkenntnisse über Forschungsansätze der Vergleichenden Politischen...

While research on the economic characteristics of growth models across countries is now extensive, research on the politics of growth models is still in its infancy, even though governments routinely pursue different strategies to generate growth. In particular, we lack evidence on (1) whether...