Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Institutional Diversity of Capitalism -- 1.2 Institutional Complementarity -- 1.3 Institutions and Politics -- 1.4 Five Different Models of Capitalism -- 1.5 An Empirical Investigation of the Diversity of Capitalism -- 1.6 Institutional Change and Political Strategies in Europe -- 2 Institutions, Complementarity, and Hierarchy -- 2.1 Institutions and Economics -- 2.1.1 Why Institutions Matter -- 2.1.2 Elementsof a Theory of Institutions -- 2.1.3 Institutions and Conflict of Interest -- 2.1.4 Institutions as a Political-Economy Equilibrium -- 2.2 Institutional Complementarity -- 2.2.1 Interaction -- 2.2.2 Complementarity -- 2.3 Institutional Hierarchy -- 3 A Comparative Analysis of Capitalism -- 3.1 Historical and International Differentiation of Capitalism -- 3.2 Methodological Questions -- 3.3 Social Systems of Innovation and Production -- 3.4 Diversity of Capitalism -- 3.4.1 Elements of Differentiation Among Models -- Possible Institutional Complementaries -- 3.4.2 Five Typesof Capitalism -- 4 Institutional Diversity: An Analysis of Five Domains -- 4.1 Product Markets -- 4.2 The Wage-Labour Nexus -- 4.2.1 Employment Protection -- 4.2.2 Industrial Relations -- 4.2.3 Employment Policy -- 4.3 Financial Systems -- 4.4 Social Protection -- 4.5 Education -- 4.6 Conclusion -- 5 The Diversity of Economic Models -- 5.1 The Five Models of Capitalism -- 5.2 Diversity of Capitalism and Political Equilibria -- 5.2.1 Partisan Politics -- 5.2.2 Political Systems -- 5.3 Comparative Institutional Advantage? -- 5.3.1 An Analysis of Science/Technology/Industry Specialization -- 5.3.2 The New Economy -- 5.4 Economic Performance -- 6 Whither Continental European Capitalism? -- 6.1 The European Context -- 6.2 The Third Way and the Continental European Model.

6.2.1 A Crash Course on the Third Way -- 6.2.2 The Economics and Economic Policy of the Third Way -- 6.2.3 A Battle of Systems? -- 6.3 The Continental European Welfare-Labour Nexus -- 6.3.1 A Limited Welfare State Retrenchment -- 6.3.2 New Bargaining Patterns -- 6.3.3 No European Level Wage Bargaining -- 6.4 The Financial Sector -- 6.5 Conclusion -- Appendix: The Methodology behind the Statistical Analysis in Chapter4 -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.