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This volume provides an analytical framework that links welfare states to party systems, combining recent contributions to the comparative political economy of the welfare state and insights from party and electoral politics.

Partial contents: The rise of transnational monopolies; A new form of capital; Transnational finance capital; Transnational capital and national states; Transnational forms of state monopoly capitalism.

THIS ARTICLE EXPLORES HOW WELL JOSEPH A. SCHUMPETER'S, "CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM AND DEMOCRACY" STANDS UP AFTER 50 YEARS. IT SUGGESTS THAT THE CLIMATE IN WHICH RECENT ESSAYS APPEAR IS QUITE DIFFERENT FROM THE ONE TO WHICH SCHUMPETER WAS REACTING. IT EXPLORES: CAPITALISM AND THE INTELLECTUALS; REQUIREMENTS FOR DEMOCRACY; POLITICAL PARTIES AND ELECTORAL SYSTEMS; REEVALUATING SCHUMPETER'S ANALYSIS; AND THE CONTINUING CHALLENGES TO CAPITALISM. IT CONCLUDES THAT ALTHOUGH SOCIALISM IS NOW A DIRTY WORD, THE CONTEST BETWEEN THESE TWO ORIENTATIONS IS BY NO MEANS OVER. PROFOUND POLITICAL CONFLICT--WHICH IS TO SAY, HISTORY--WILL SURELY CONTINUE.

Philip Manow is Professor of Comparative Political Economy, University of Bremen. His research interests include comparative welfare state research, the German political system, European integration and Political Theory. Publications include In the King's Shadow. The Political Anatomy of Democratic Representation (Polity Press, 2010) and Religion, Class Coalitions and Welfare States, Cambridge Studies on Social Theory, Religion and Politics (co-authored with Kees van Kersbergen, CUP, 2009). Bruno Palier is CNRS Research Director at Sciences Po, Centre d'etudes europeennes. He is studying welfare reforms in Europe. He is co-director of LIEPP (Laboratory for interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies)