Systemic Cycle and Institutional Change

This book explores endogenous institutional change and the global, cyclical, and power-based drivers that underpin it. A metatheoretical framework is presented to highlight the influence of path dependence, systemic cycle driven power relations, and institutional design on the development of labor institutions. The framework is applied to the USA, Germany, and China to provide a comparative economic perspective.

Systemic Cycle and Institutional Change: Labor Markets in the USA, Germany and China aims to examine endogenous institutional change through analyzing the systemic cycle and bringing together global and national conceptions of capitalism. It is relevant to students and researchers interested in comparative economics, political economy, and labor economics.

Contains case studies to ground theoretical discussions within empirical examples Highly illustrated with graphs and tables to highlight trends and allow for direct comparisons Provides a historically inspired framework for examining institutional change and shifts in power resources.

Autorentext

Josip Lucev is a political scientist at Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb.

Inhalt

1. World-systems analysis and the systemic cycle.- 2. Institutions and institutional change.- 3. Framework oriented interpretations of the systemic cycle and institutional theory.- 4. A Systemic Cycle Oriented Framework of Institutional Change.- 5. Labor Market in United States of America.- 6. Labor Market in Germany.- 7. Labor Market in PR China.- 8. The Three Cases and their Patterns.- 9. Conclusions.<p