A Workshop Based on:

Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Philip Manow (eds.)
Comparing Welfare Capitalism
Social Policy and Political Economy in Europe, Japan and the USA
Routledge/EUI Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
London, New York: Routledge, 2001

This book challenges the popular thesis of a downward trend in the viability of welfare states in competitive market economies. With approaches ranging from historical case studies to cross-national analyses, the contributors explore various aspects of the relationships between welfare states, industrial relations, financial government and production systems. Building upon and combining comparative studies of both the varieties of capitalism and the worlds of welfare state regimes, the book considers issues such as: the role of employers and< unions in social policy, the interdependencies between financial markets and pension systems, the current welfare reform process. It sheds new light on the tenuous relationship between social policies and market economies and provides thought-provoking reading for students and scholars of Comparative Politics, Public Policy, the Welfare State and Political Economy.

The workshop is open to faculty and grad students. Those interested in attending should contact the European Union Center (eucenter@intl-institute.wisc.edu) to get access to the password-protected chapters.

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Participants in the October 2001 workshop

Faculty

Bernhard Ebbinghaus (Visiting Professor, Max Plank Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany)

Myra Marx Ferree (Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

K. Orfeo Fioretos (Assistant Professor of Political Science,, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Gary Herrigel (Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago)

Peter Swenson (Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University)

Kathleen Thelen (Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University)

Jonathan Zeitlin (Professor of History, Sociology, and Industrial Relations, and Co-Director of the European Union Center, UW-Madison), Moderator

Graduate Students

Josh Whitford (Doctoral Student, Sociology, UW-Madison)

Darya Vassina (Doctoral Student, Industrial Relations, UW-Madison)