Liberalism in Illiberal States

Mark I. Vail is an Associate Professor of Political Science and a Faculty Fellow at the Murphy Institute of Political Economy at Tulane University. His focuses on the comparative political economy of advanced industrial countries, with a particular focus on social and economic policy in Western Europe. His first book, Recasting Welfare Capitalism, was published by Temple University Press in 2010. He has published work in a number of prominent venues, including Comparative Politics, Governance, The European Journal of Political Research, and West European Politics.

• Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Tables Introduction National Liberalisms in Illiberal States: Competing Conceptions of Economic Order in Contemporary EuropeChapter 2 National Liberalisms in Historical Perspective: Conceptions of State, Society, and Economy in Illiberal StatesChapter 3 Degrees of Freedom and Constraint: French Statist Liberalism and Economic Citizenship in the Shadow of MaastrichtChapter 4 Economic Adjustment through Group Subsidization: Managing the Social Market Economy under German Corporate LiberalismChapter 5 Group Capture and Political Sclerosis: The Failed Synthesis of Italian Clientelist LiberalismConclusion The Contested Politics of Economic Change in a Neoliberal Age