The article reviews the “Varieties of Capitalism”(VoC) approach and its large impact on the
field of comparative political economy. It situates the approach within the field, and stresses …

This chapter critically examines the analytical foundations and some of the empirical claims
of the Varieties-of-Capitalism (VoC) School of comparative political economy. Virtually, the …

This chapter introduces an approach to capitalist variety in transition economies in order to
make a renewed case for typological theories of economic performance. We argue that …

The 'varieties of capitalism'(VoC) perspective, as it has come to be known, has been much
lauded and rightly heralded as the newly ascendant paradigm in the comparative political …

Perhaps it is simply a generational artifact, but every 10 years or so certain positions in the
field of comparative political economy become canonical. I suspect that The Varieties of …

The paper argues that contemporary capitalism must be studied as a society rather than an
economy, and contemporary society as capitalist society. Capitalism is defined as a specific …

The importance of the themes raised by the'varieties of capitalism'literature is apparent in the
range of commentaries it has inspired, represented here by the diverse essays of Robert …

The European political economy is facing a host of entirely new challenges, arising from
both external forces and internal conflicts and contradictions. These include a novel …

Scholars of comparative capitalism, from Shonfield's (1965) forward, have assured us that
there are different forms of capitalism to choose from. Each variant has its own peculiar …

Abstract The Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) literature's difficulties in accounting for the full
diversity of national capitalisms and in explaining institutional change result at least in part …