This paper analyzes China’s political economy through the lens of the varieties of capitalism approach as formulated by Hall and Soskice (2001). It presents the current state of knowledge about China in each of the five spheres of the political economy included in the varieties of capitalism...

The term “neoliberalism” is encountered everywhere today. In popular leftist political rhetoric it is often simply a place-holder for “contemporary capitalism”, “austerity politics”, and “all that is bad in our world”, giving that rhetoric the appearance of a new diagnostic edge....

This essay reviews the development of approaches within the comparative capitalisms(CC) literature and points to three theoretical innovations which, taken together, define and distinguish these approaches as a group. First, national economies are characterized by distinct institutional...