TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boyer,Robert
AU  - Gould,Erica R.
AU  - Jackson,Gregory
AU  - Jurgens,Ulrich
AU  - Katzenstein,Peter J.
AU  - Kitschelt,Herbert
AU  - Krasner,Stephen D.
AU  - Kume,Ikuo
AU  - Streeck,Wolfgang
AU  - Thelen,Kathleen
AU  - Vitols,Sigurt
AU  - Vogel,Steven K.
AU  - Yamamura,Kozo
TI  - The End of Diversity?: Prospects for German and Japanese Capitalism 
T2  - Cornell Studies in Political Economy
SN  - 9780801488207
AV  - HC286.8.E49 2003 
U1  - 330.943 
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Political Science & Political History
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables and Figures --; Contributors --; Preface --; Introduction: Convergence or Diversity? Stability and Change in German and Japanese Capitalism --; Germany and Japan: Binding versus Autonomy --; Regional States: Japan and Asia, Germany in Europe --; Germany and Japan in a New Phase of Capitalism: Confronting the Past and the Future --; The Embedded Innovation Systems of Germany and Japan: Distinctive Features and Futures --; The Future of Nationally Embedded Capitalism: Industrial Relations in Germany and Japan --; Transformation and Interaction: Japanese, U.S., and German Production Models in the 1990S --; From Banks to Markets: The Political Economy of Liberalization of the German and Japanese Financial Systems --; Corporate Governance in Germany and Japan: Liberalization Pressures and Responses During the 1990S --; The Re-Organization of Organized Capitalism: How the German and Japanese Models are Shaping Their Own Transformations --; Competitive Party Democracy and Political-Economic Reform in Germany and Japan: Do Party Systems Make a Difference? --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - After the devastation of World War II, Germany and Japan built national capitalist institutions that were remarkably successful in terms of national reconstruction and international competitiveness. Yet both "miracles" have since faltered, allowing U.S. capital and its institutional forms to establish global dominance. National varieties of capitalism are now under intense pressure to converge to the U.S. model. Kozo Yamamura and Wolfgang Streeck have gathered an international group of authors to examine the likelihood of convergence-to determine whether the global forces of Anglo-American capitalism will give rise to a single, homogeneous capitalist system.The chapters in this volume approach this question from five directions: international integration, technological innovation, labor relations and production systems, financial regimes and corporate governance, and domestic politics. In their introduction, Yamamura and Streeck summarize the crises of performance and confidence that have beset German and Japanese capitalism and revived the question of competitive convergence. The editors ask whether the two countries, confronted with the political and economic exigencies of technological revolution and economic internationalization, must abandon their distinctive institutions and the competitive advantages these have yielded in the past, or whether they can adapt and retain such institutions, thereby preserving the social cohesion and economic competitiveness of their societies
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501711442
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