Institutional change in varieties of capitalism
Institutional change in varieties of capitalism
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DOI：
10.1093/ser/mwn020
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Thelen, Kathleen
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作者：
Hall, Peter A.;Thelen, Kathleen
当代对待资本主义多样性的方法经常被批评为忽视了制度变革的问题。本文提出了一种比Hall和Soskice(《资本主义的变种：比较优势的制度基础》，牛津大学出版社，2001年)提供的更广泛的制度变迁方法，但与其资本主义变种的视角是一致的。它首先概述了一种制度稳定的方法，这表明制度的持久性不仅取决于它们的总福利效应，而且取决于它们向基本的社会或政治联盟提供的分配利益；不仅取决于这种均衡的帕累托最优质量，而且取决于行为者通过其测试现有制度限度的持续动员过程。然后，它对制度变化进行了分析，强调了从这种争论中脱颖而出的叛逃、重新解释和改革的方式，并根据欧洲政治经济的最新发展评估了这一说法的准确性。文章最后概述了这一视角对当代政治经济学自由化分析的影响。
Contemporary approaches to varieties to capitalism are often criticized for neglecting issues of institutional change. This paper develops an approach to institutional change more extended than the one provided in Hall and Soskice (in Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage, oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001) but congruent with its varieties-of-capitalism perspective. It begins by outlining an approach to institutional stability, which suggests that the persistence of institutions depends not only on their aggregate welfare effects but also on the distributive benefits that they provide to the underlying social or political coalitions; and not only on the Pareto-optimal quality of such equilibria but also on continuous processes of mobilization through which the actors test the limits of the existing institutions. It then develops an analysis of institutional change that emphasizes the ways in which defection, reinterpretation and reform emerge out of such contestation and assesses the accuracy of this account against recent developments in the political economies of Europe. The paper concludes by outlining the implications of this perspective for contemporary analyses of liberalization in the political economy.