02098cam a22002294a 4500 110926s2012 enka b 001 0 eng 9780415671507 SDU HB501 V299 2012 Varieties of capitalism, types of democracy and globalization / edited by Masanobu Ido. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012. 226 p. : ill. Routledge advances in international political economy HKBU library YT2025 M09 "This book combines two strands of international political economy; examining how capitalism and democracy shape and are shaped by each other. Although until now considered separately, this path-breaking book proposes an innovative view of a political-economic system that inextricably links the model of capitalism to the type of democracy, where continuation is mutually reinforced. Advanced countries have achieved post-war affluence by adopting one of two contrasting models of capitalism; liberal market economies or coordinated market economies, and two opposing types of democracies: consensus or majoritarian democracies. Expert contributors in the field consider the question of whether and how globalization is transforming the post-war political economic systems of advanced countries such as Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan, as well as the question of how it is shaping democracy and capitalism combinations in former socialist countries in Eastern Europe and the new "capitalist" China. The book examines various topics, including party system change, a political dilemma of the established party, and corporate governance reforms, to posit an original an innovative theory of international political economy Variety of Capitalism, Types of Democracy and Globalization will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative politics, political economy and globalization."-- Capitalism. Democracy. Globalization. Ido, Masanobu, 1957- 205500 GBE lcc 107515 107515 0 0 lcc 0 HB0501 V299 02012 0 CGB 281078 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-09-08 2 0 HB501 V299 2012 1000363560 2025-09-08 00:00:00 C.1 2025-09-08 GBE