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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Compares and contrasts the development of welfare capitalism in France and Germany, through good times and bad, since the 1970s<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781592139675&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1518_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Recasting Welfare Capitalism</h1>
<H2>Economic Adjustment in Contemporary France and Germany</H2>
<h3>Mark I. Vail</h3>
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<BR> 248 pp
6x9
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</P><BLOCKQUOTE><I></i></i>"<I>This is an important and extremely well written book. Vail challenges the dominant theoretical approaches within comparative political economy. </I>Recasting Welfare Capitalism<I> is a comprehensive account, well researched, and exceptionally clear. It will reshape academic discussions of welfare state change."</I><BR><B>—Chris Howell</B>, Department of Politics, Oberlin College</I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<p><i>Recasting Welfare Capitalism</i>, employs a sophisticated and original theoretical approach to compare welfare states and political-economic adjustment in Germany and France. Mark Vail examines how and why institutional change takes place and what factors characterize economic evolution when moving from times of prosperity to more austere periods and back again. These respective evolutions involve interrelated changes in social and economic policies and are characterized by political relationships that are continuously renegotiated—often in unpredictable ways. </p>
<p>Covering the 1970s to the present, Vail analyzes social and economic reforms, including labor-policy, social-insurance, and antipoverty programs. He focuses on the tactics and actions of key political players and demolishes the stagnation argument that suggests that France and Germany have largely frozen political economies incapable of reform. The result is a compelling reconceptualization of change in both the welfare state and the broader political economy during an age of globalization.</p>
<BR> <h2>Reviews</h2>
<P><i>"</i>Recasting Welfare Capitalism<i> presents very illuminating and detailed analysis of contemporary political and economic adjustment strategies in Germany and France. In so doing, it debunks the widely shared perception that these countries have been moribund and plagued by political stalemate. Vail's insights stem from a creative theoretical shift away from contemporary institutionalism in political economic analysis to an emphasis on informal relational dynamics and ideas. His persuasive argument about the emergence of new relations and dynamics is grounded in elegant and historically informed case studies of crucial policy and relational realms." </i><BR><B>—Gary Herrigel</B>, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago </P>
<P><i>"Mark Vail’s </i>Recasting Welfare Capitalism<i> shows how French and German political actors navigated the difficult and contentious transitions from rapid postwar economic growth to the slower growth of the past three decades. By linking the usual welfare-state analytic categories to broader economic management issues, he highlights how actors and their ideas mattered for the gradual transformation of both sides of the welfare-capitalism model in France and Germany. This is one of the rare studies offering a comprehensive and insightful analysis of structures, actors, and policy changes across the whole postwar era." </i><BR><B>—Herman Schwartz</B>, Department of Politics, University of Virginia </P>
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<H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/2011_au1.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>Mark I. Vail</b> is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Tulane University. He is a contributor to <i>The State after Statism</i>, edited by Jonah D. Levy, and has published work in <i>Comparative Politics</i>, <i>The Journal of European Political Research</i>, and <i>West European Politics</i>, among other venues.</P></td></tr></table>
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