The Politics of Advanced Capitalism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107492622)

This book serves as a sequel to two distinguished volumes on capitalism: Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism (Cambridge, 1999) and Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism (1985). Both volumes took stock of major economic challenges advanced industrial democracies faced, as well as the ways political and economic elites dealt with them. However, during the last decades, the structural environment of advanced capitalist democracies has undergone profound changes: sweeping deindustrialization, tertiarization of the employment structure, and demographic developments. This book provides a synthetic view allowing the reader to grasp the nature of these structural transformations and their consequences in terms of the politics of change, policy outputs, and outcomes. In contrast to functionalist and structuralist approaches, the book advocates and contributes to a "return of electoral and coalitional politics" to political economy research.

Author: Pablo Beramendi
ISBN-10: 1107492629
ISBN-13: 9781107492622
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/23/2015
Pages: 471
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2016