The Political Economy of the Japanese Financial Big Bang: Institutional Change in Finance and Public Policymaking (review)

2008 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
William W. Grimes
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
The Political

Power and Wealth in Rural China: The Political Economy of Institutional Change By Susan H. Whiting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 348p. $59.95.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 252-253
Author(s):  
Benedict Stavis
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Rural China ◽  
The Political ◽  
Rural Industry ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Social Science Theory ◽  
Science Theory ◽  
Sophisticated Analysis

While this book does not quite cover the broad range promised by its title, it does offer a sophisticated analysis of the privatization of rural industry in China, thick in social science theory and rich with empirical data.

scholarly journals Varieties of Capitalism and Institutional Complementarities in the Political Economy: An Empirical Analysis

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter A. Hall ◽  
Daniel W. Gingerich
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Institutional Reform ◽  
Varieties Of Capitalism ◽  
The Political ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Comparative Capitalism ◽  
The Impact

This article provides a statistical analysis of core contentions of the ‘varieties of capitalism’ perspective on comparative capitalism. The authors construct indices to assess whether patterns of co-ordination in the OECD economies conform to the predictions of the theory and compare the correspondence of institutions across subspheres of the political economy. They test whether institutional complementarities occur across these subspheres by estimating the impact of complementarities in labour relations and corporate governance on growth rates. To assess the durability of varieties of capitalism, they report on the extent of institutional change in the 1980s and 1990s. Powerful interaction effects across institutions in the subspheres of the political economy must be considered if assessments of the economic impact of institutional reform in any one sphere are to be accurate.

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