The Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) has become the dominant approach in comparative
political economy and enjoys wide application and attention in disciplines outside of political …

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 …

Industrial relations systems have long been classified into different groups, such as the
Anglo-Saxon, the Scandinavian, or the continental European model. Similarly, welfare states …

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 …

In the post-2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) era, literature on comparative capitalism,
particularly that focusing on delineating distinctive institutional structures of different versions …

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 '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 …

Abstract When Peter Hall and David Soskice wrote their introduction to the now widely cited
collection of essays they published in 2001 under the title Varieties of Capitalism: The …

The chapters in this volume are the results and elements of a lively debate among a diverse
group of political economists about the state and purpose of Comparative Capitalisms (CC) …

An institutional perspective was central to much early industrial relations (IR) research in
North America. At its best, this perspective focused on the rules and norms underpinning …