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Culture and Consensus in European Varieties of Capitalism

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230583436

ISBN: 978-1-349-36178-6

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Sep 22, 2015

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Introduction

Bruff, Ian

Pages: 1 –20

[As Nicola Smith (2006: 519) argues, ‘[t]he trajectory of contemporary European political economies remains the subject of enormous academic and political controversy.’ Nevertheless, while certainly true, one common theme in the discussions is the need for a consensus to exist across different...
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Culture in the Literatures

Bruff, Ian

Pages: 21 –46

[As stated in the previous chapter, the route to an adequate conceptualization of the role of consensus in the trajectories of European varieties of capitalism is via an adequate conceptualization of the role of culture. Therefore, this chapter will be concerned with culture. As can be seen from...
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An Alternative Framework: Gramsci’s “Common Sense”

Bruff, Ian

Pages: 47 –71

[The task of this chapter is to outline an alternative framework for analysing the role of culture in the trajectories of European varieties of capitalism. This framework utilizes the conceptual apparatus provided by Antonio Gramsci’s discussions of “common sense”, in which the sections of this...
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The Netherlands and Germany from the Varieties of Capitalism Perspective

Bruff, Ian

Pages: 72 –90

[This chapter provides an overview of the historical trajectories of the Dutch and German varieties of capitalism. The chapter is divided into two parts, the first concerning the Netherlands and the second dealing with Germany. 1945 is the starting point because it was after World War II that...
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The Netherlands and Wassenaar

Bruff, Ian

Pages: 91 –114

[Silke van Dyk’s article on consensus in the Netherlands in the 1982–2001 period argues that, especially given the hype in the 1990s about the Dutch “Polder model” — and, moreover, given the traditional view that the Netherlands is intrinsically a consensual or consociational democracy — there is...
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Germany and the Alliance for Jobs

Bruff, Ian

Pages: 115 –136

[This chapter demonstrates that in the Alliance for Jobs process there was little overlap between the different versions of common sense, limiting the potential for consensus to form through synthesis. More specifically, it was not possible for agreement about economic “reality” to be reached....
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Post-2001 Radicalization

Bruff, Ian

Pages: 137 –157

[Several factors combined to paint a rosy picture as European varieties of capitalism approached the new millennium. There was a return to higher economic and employment growth in many countries. Moreover, this did not accompany the dismantling of the welfare state or other aspects of the...
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Conclusion: “Critical” IPE?

Bruff, Ian

Pages: 158 –163

[This book has made the case for the superiority of a neo-Gramscian framework when analysing the trajectories of European varieties of capitalism. It has done so through engaging with the varieties of capitalism literature with regard to the role of consensus in these trajectories. I have argued...

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