Wyn Grant is Professor of Politics and Chairman of the Department of Politics and International Studies, at the University of Warwick. Jan Nekkers is a Political Scientist at the Wiardi Beckman Institute. Frans van Waarden is a Researcher at the University of Konstanz and the University of Leyden.

• Part 1 Crisis, corporatism and continuity, Frans van Waarden. Part 2 Countries at war: continuity and change in British business associations, Wyn Grant; the state and war production in Canada - 1939-1945, William D.Coleman and Kim Richard Nossal; the USA: World War II and the retreat from new deal era corporatism, Gregory Hooks; political design and systems of interest intermediation. Germany between the 1930s and the 1950s, Hajo Weber. Part 3 Occupied countries: The Netherlands - state corporatism against the state, David Barnouw and Jan Nekkers; the policy of the lesser evil - corporatist economic organization in Belgium; Denmark - occupation without an occupation regime, Ole P.Kristensen; business and corporatism in Vichy-France, Adrian Rossiter; conquest and corporatism, Cornelis J.Lammers. Part 4 Neutral countries: corporatism and neutrality - Sweden during World War II, Hans De Geer. Part 5 Wartime economic mobilization and state-business relations. A comparison of nine countries, Frans van Waarden.

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