Integrating Varieties of Capitalism and Welfare State Research: A Unified Typology of Capitalisms

List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Welfare State Research and Varieties of Capitalism 1.1 Welfare state research 1.1.1 Weaknesses of Esping-Andersen’s welfare regime typology 1.2 Varieties of capitalism 1.2.1 Complementarity 1.2.2 The coordination index 1.2.3 Weaknesses of Hall and Soskice’s varieties of capitalism typology 1.3 Why it makes sense to combine nations into regimes 2 Empirical Indicators and Existing Typologies 2.1 Verifying diversity empirically 2.2 Combining the country clusters of existing typologies 2.2.1 Three capitalisms: Schmidt’s typology 2.2.2 Four capitalisms: Boyer’s typology 2.2.3 Five capitalisms: Amable’s typology 2.2.4 Again five capitalisms: Ebbinghaus’ typology 2.2.5 Ever more diversity: Crouch and Streeck’s typology 2.3 Dealing with outlier countries 2.4 A methodological interlude – how to build typologies 3 A Unified Typology of Capitalisms 4 How Complementarities Stabilize Three Capitalisms 4.1 Welfare regimes and industrial relations 4.2 Welfare regimes and corporate governance 4.3 Welfare regimes and skills creation 4.4 Welfare regimes and employer associations 4.5 Varieties of capitalism and decommodification 4.6 Varieties of capitalism and retirement policy 4.7 Varieties of capitalism and power resources 4.8 Résumé: Are complementarities the answer? 5 Diversity’s Source: Three Policy Styles, Three Capitalisms 5.1 Liberal capitalism 5.1.1 The United Kingdom 5.1.2 The United States 5.1.3 Ireland 5.1.4 Canada 5.1.5 New Zealand 5.1.6 Australia 5.1.7 Summing up liberal capitalism 5.2 Conservatively coordinated capitalism 5.2.1 Germany 5.2.2 Austria 5.2.3 Switzerland 5.2.4 Belgium 5.2.5 France 5.2.6 The Netherlands 5.2.7 Italy 5.2.8 Spain 5.2.9 Portugal 5.2.10 Japan 5.2.11 Summing up conservatively coordinated capitalism 5.3 Social democratically coordinated capitalism 5.3.1 Sweden 5.3.2 Denmark 5.3.3 Finland 5.3.4 Norway 5.3.5 Summing up social democratically coordinated capitalism 5.4 Summary and limitations of the approach 6 What Can a Unified Typology Explain? 6.1 How a unified typology can explain more than existing typologies 6.2 How a unified typology can explain trajectories of liberalization Summary and Conclusion Notes References Appendix A Data used B Factor loadings Inde