Table of Contents

Bob Hancke: Introducing the Debate Part 1: Capitalist Diversity 1: Peter A. Hall and David Soskice: An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism 2: Colin Crouch: Typologies of Capitalism 3: Wolfgang Streeck and Kathleen Thelen: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies Part 2: Debating Varieties of Capitalism 4: Peter Hall and Daniel W. Gingerich: Varieties of Capitalism and Institutional Complementarities in the Macro-Economy: An Empirical Analysis 5: Lane Kenworthy: Institutional Coherence and Macroeconomic Performance 6: Steven Casper, Mark Lehrer, and David Soskice: Can High-Technology Industries Prosper in Germany? Institutional Frameworks and the Evolution of the German Software and Biotechnology Industries 7: Mark Zachary Taylor: Empirical Evidence Against Varieties of Capitalism's Theory of Technological Innovation Part 3: Rethinking Varieties of Capitalism 8: Peter Hall and Kathleen Thelen: Institutional Change in Varieties of Capitalism 9: Bob Hancke, Martin Rhodes, and Mark Thatcher: Beyond Varieties of Capitalism

About the Author

Bob Hancke is a Reader in European Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Previous appointments were at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, at the J.F. Kennedy School and the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI in Florence, and as a doctoral researcher at MIT. He wrote Large Firms and Institutional Change (Oxford University Press, 2002), co-edited Beyond Varieties of Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2007) and participated in the project that led to Varieties of Capitalism edited by Peter Hall and David Soskice (Oxford University Press, 2001). His research interests are the political economy of advanced capitalist societies, the relation between institutions and macro-economic policy, and labour relations.