In this paper, we argue that Ireland's post-crisis economic recovery in Europe was driven by
foreign direct investment (FDI) from Silicon Valley, and while this growth model was made …

The 2008 financial crisis hit few places harder than the Euro periphery. Faced with high
levels of public debt, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain were each compelled to …

This paper analyses the political origins of diverse peripheral growth models in Europe,
focusing on debt-based consumption-led growth model in Southern Europe and FDI-based …

Fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which brought the end of socialist system in the
Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC), eight former members of the Eastern Bloc …

In Europe's political economy the East-Central and South-Eastern European (ECSEE)
occupy a distinct niche to their global (mostly Asian) rivals. In this global distribution of …

Since the 2008 financial crisis, capitalist development in the UK has been marked by both
continuity and change. Whilst the Coalition government effectively re-established the UK's …

This article argues that the quiet politics of informal business-state interaction explains the
political determinants of growth regimes. Building on the business power literature within the …

Lucio Baccaro is Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.
His research focuses on the political economy of labor markets and growth models, and …

This chapter shows that welfare reforms are institutionally and politically linked to countries'
growth strategies, ie the policies implemented by governments to boost growth and jobs …

Comparative political economy usually treats Italy and Spain as similar, even “most similar,”
cases. For Varieties of Capitalism, they are both “mixed” models of capitalism, neither …