Comparing Welfare Capitalism : Social Policy and Political Economy in Europe, Japan and the USA (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: Studying Varieties of Welfare Capitalism
Part I: The Origins and Development of Welfare Capitalism
2. Business Coordination, Wage Bargaining and Welfare State: Germany and Japan in Comparative Historical Perspective
3. Strategic Bargaining and Social Policy Development: Unemployment Insurance in France and Germany
4. When Labour and Capital Collude: the Political Economy of Early Retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA
Part II: Industrial Relations and Welfare State Regimes
5. Welfare State Regimes and Industrial Relations Systems: the Questionable Role of Path Dependency Theory
6. Social Partnership, Welfare State Regimes, and Working Time in Europe
7. The Governance of the Employment - Welfare Relationship in Britain and Germany
Part III: Pension Regimes and Financial Systems
8. Between Financial Commitment, Market Liquidity and Corporate Governance: Occupational Pensions in Britain, Germany, Japan and the USA
9. The Forgotten Link: the Financial Regulation of Japanese Pensions Funds in Comparative Perspective
Part IV: The Political Economy of Welfare State Reform
10. The Experience Negotiated Reforms in the Dutch and German Welfare States
11. The Challenge of De-industrialisation: Divergent Ideological Responses to Welfare State Reform
12. Employment and the Welfare State: a Continental Dilemma
Part V: Conclusions
13. The Politics of Elective Affinities: a Commentary
14. Varieties of Welfare Capitalism; an Outlook on Future Directions of Research