Comparing Welfare Capitalism

Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Philip Manow

• 1. Introduction: Studying Varieties of Welfare CapitalismPart I: The Origins and Development of Welfare Capitalism2. Business Coordination, Wage Bargaining and Welfare State: Germany and Japan in Comparative Historical Perspective3. Strategic Bargaining and Social Policy Development: Unemployment Insurance in France and Germany4. When Labour and Capital Collude: the Political Economy of Early Retirement in Europe, Japan and the USAPart II: Industrial Relations and Welfare State Regimes5. Welfare State Regimes and Industrial Relations Systems: the Questionable Role of Path Dependency Theory6. Social Partnership, Welfare State Regimes, and Working Time in Europe7. The Governance of the Employment - Welfare Relationship in Britain and GermanyPart III: Pension Regimes and Financial Systems8. Between Financial Commitment, Market Liquidity and Corporate Governance: Occupational Pensions in Britain, Germany, Japan and the USA9. The Forgotten Link: the Financial Regulation of Japanese Pensions Funds in Comparative PerspectivePart IV: The Political Economy of Welfare State Reform10. The Experience Negotiated Reforms in the Dutch and German Welfare States11. The Challenge of De-industrialisation: Divergent Ideological Responses to Welfare State Reform12. Employment and the Welfare State: a Continental DilemmaPart V: Conclusions13. The Politics of Elective Affinities: a Commentary14. Varieties of Welfare Capitalism; an Outlook on Future Directions of Research