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Baccaro and Howell place class actors and class power at the center of their argument. Since the end of the 1970s, we have witnessed “a marked shift in the balance of class power,” as “weakened and divided trade unions face resurgent and radicalized employers.”13 In making this case, Baccaro and Ho…

Different countries have different “Trajectories of Neoliberal Transformation.” Liberalization takes place as institutional deregulation, institutional derogation, and institutional conversion, and in each country, we find a different mix of these mechanisms. Yet in all countries, liberalization in…

By contrast, VoC’s overarching message is institutional diversity and resilience. Rather than accepting the Thatcherite teleology, Hall and Soskice suggested that contemporary capitalism had stabilized around distinct institutional models — Liberal Market Economies (LMES) such as the United States …

state institutions (the military, in particular) appear to enjoy limitless autonomy, causal influence, and ontological primacy as the sole constitutive force in the political and social realm

they apprehend only parts of the whole — the variegated structural and institutional currents