Contemporary approaches to varieties to capitalism are often criticized for neglecting issues of institutional change. This paper develops an approach to institutional change more extended than the one provided in Hall and Soskice (in Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of...

In recent years, neo-Brandeisian legal scholars have revived the ideas of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis who championed state regulation that preserved market competition and economic liberty in the face of concentrated private power. While the resulting intellectual ferment has opened up...

This essay reviews recent literature on varieties of capitalism, drawing on insights from existing studies to propose a new, more differentiated way of thinking about contemporary changes in the political economies of the rich democracies. The framework offered here breaks with the “continuum...

This article uses the German case as the main point of reference for exploring the new dynamics of labor politics in northern Europe in a changing global economy. In contrast to the prevailing wisdom that employers are strengthened by increased capital mobility, we argue that globalization...