The Evolution of Modern States Sweden Japan and the United States 1st Edition by Sven Steinmo ISBN 0511771584 9780511771583

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ISBN 10: 0511771584

ISBN 13: 9780511771583

Author:  Sven Steinmo 

The Evolution of Modern States: Sweden, Japan, and the United States 1st Edition: The Evolution of Modern States is a significant contribution to the literatures on political economy, globalization, historical institutionalism, and social science methodology. The book begins with a simple question: Why do rich capitalist democracies respond so differently to the common pressures they face in the early twenty-first century? Drawing on insights from evolutionary theory, Sven Steinmo challenges the common equilibrium view of politics and economics and argues that modern political economies are best understood as complex adaptive systems. The book examines the political, social, and economic history of three different nations – Sweden, Japan, and the United States – and explains how and why these countries have evolved along such different trajectories over the past century. Bringing together social and economic history, institutionalism, and evolutionary theory, Steinmo thus provides a comprehensive explanation for differing responses to globalization as well as a new way of analyzing institutional and social change.

 

The Evolution of Modern States: Sweden, Japan, and the United States 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. Evolutionary Narratives

• A global standard?
• What went wrong?
• Political science
• Politics as evolution
• Evolutionary theory and historical institutionalism
• A note on common misperceptions
• The cases: three systems
  • Sweden: How Does a Bumblebee Fly?
  • Japan: A Hybrid Struggling to Adapt
  • The United States: Strong Nation, Weak State
• Conclusion

2. Sweden: The Evolution of a Bumble Bee
PART I

• A universalist welfare state
• Fiscal Churning
• The Social-Liberal Economy
  • Joseph Stiglitz argues similarly
• Economic Concentration

PART II

• The evolution of the Swedish model
  • The Electoral Origins of the Politics of Compromise
  • Saltsjöbad – The Historic Compromise
  • War and Its Advantages
  • Women, Employment, and Equality
  • Politicization and Decline of the Corporatist Bargain
  • Rethinking the Swedish Model
  • The Crisis of Swedish Capitalism

PART III

• Challenges at century’s end
  • The “Socialists” Adapt
  • Education in a Global Economy
  • Subversive neo-liberalism?
  • Adapting to Demographic Change
  • The Social Democratic Consensus
  • The Swedish Model and the Social Welfare State
• Conclusion: Still Flying, But is it Still a Bumble-Bee?

3. The Japanese Hybrid
PART I

• The Japanese model: Japan Inc.
  • Japan Inc.
  • The Dual Economy
  • “Welfare Through Work”
  • Political Structure: Politics without Ideology
  • Japan’s Small (Public) Welfare State
  • Taxation Japanese Style
  • Summing Up

PART II

• The evolution of the Japanese model
  • Occupation
  • Equality to Defend Democracy
  • Post-War Goal #1 – Economic Growth
  • Industrial (Not Social) Policy
  • An Island Nation: The Oil Shock
  • Japan as Number 1

PART III

• Challenges in a new century
  • After the Bubble Burst
  • Adopting the “Global Standard”
  • A Glass Half Empty
  • Tax Reform
  • The Koizumi Phenomenon
  • Increasing Inequality
  • Declining Trust
  • Reforms Not Taken
  • Gender Inequality
  • The Aging Society vs. a Homogenous Nation
  • Regime Change?
• Conclusion

4. The United States: Strong Nation – Weak State
PART I

• America’s “hidden” welfare state
  • America’s Unique Tax System
  • Targeting
  • The Free Market?

PART II

• The evolution of the American model
  • A System of Checks and Balances in the Land of Milk and Honey
  • The Emergence of a Modern Active State
  • Building America’s Welfare State
  • An Activist State Settles in
  • A People of Plenty
  • Big Government – Weak State
  • A Crisis of Confidence
  • “Government is the Problem, Not the Solution” Ronald Reagan
  • The Evolving World Economy
  • “The Era of Big Government is Over”
  • Tax Cut…Not Spend

PART III

• Challenges at century’s end
  • Americans and Attitudes Toward Government
  • From “Ask Not…” to “What Do I Get Out of This?”
• Conclusion

5. “And Yet It Moves”

• The end of neo-liberalism?
• Why globalization did not kill the welfare state
• Welfare state as insurance
• Do we need an evolutionary theory of politics?
• Ideas, agents, and institutional change
• The nation as an evolutionary unit?
• Institutions and evolution
• Divergence in a globalizing world

 

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