The "Cuban safety-valve theory" explains sustained survival of Cuban socialism in part through the high levels of emigration, following Hirschman's model of "exit' undermining 'voice". The article argues that this remains insufficient in two important ways. Taking a closer look at the crisis...

This article discusses the roots and the development of the Social Democratic preference for corporate governance liberalization. I show that the preference for competition is a pre-strategic, fundamental preference. German organized capitalism, in the sense of competition-limiting company...

In a recent article, Caporaso and Tarrow have argued that the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) is increasingly moving in a social policy direction that will ultimately put European politics on a “Polanyian” course. We take issue with their claim and distinguish three...

The end of Cuban exceptionalism has been much announced since 1989, but a decade and a half later state socialism on the island is still enduring. Transition studies have been criticized for focusing on success stories. Exploring the deviant case of Cuba's "non-transition" from a comparative...

As a Socialist country undergoing rapid social and economic transition, China presents a revealing case study on the role of ideology in the process of institutional change. Based on Douglass North's theory of institutional change and on David Beetham's theory of political legitimation, this...