This paper examines the relationship among economic context, political institutions, and the political dynamics of adjustment within national models of capitalism through an analysis of recent labor-market reform in France and Germany. It argues that a climate of economic austerity since the...

This paper suggests a two-dimensional concept of nonliberal capitalism: coordinated capitalism (as described in the varieties of capitalism framework) and organized capitalism. While the coordination function of institutions canalizes individual maximization strategies of firms in order to...

Deregulation, technological change, and the integration of markets increase the competitive pressures on forms of national and sectoral governance. The heart of the issue is whether the Continental, consensus-oriented model of capitalism is gravitating toward the Anglo-Saxon, market-oriented...

Unter dem Begriff der Hilfe zur Arbeit subsumiert das Bundessozialhilfegesetz die arbeitserzieherischen Instrumente der Sozialhilfe. Der Beitrag stellt zunächst die historische Verbindung von Fürsorge und Arbeitsdiszi-plinierung im Kontext der unterschiedlichen kapitalistischen Epochen dar, um...