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Warum lässt sich zehn Jahre nach Ausbruch der Eurokrise keine durchgreifende Besserung der Situation in Südeuropa feststellen? Und was sind die weiteren Perspektiven? Um diese Fragen zu beantworten, müssen wir zunächst den Charakter der Krise und seine Ursachen verstehen. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden dann die Reformen zur Stabilisierung des Euros eingeordnet und die weiteren Handlungsoptionen abgewogen.

Der Fokus unserer Forschung zum Populismus sollte nicht auf dem harten Kern rechter Parteien liegen, sondern auf jenen, die diese Parteien nur aus Protest wählen oder gar nicht mehr wählen. Wir sollten auch nicht den Fehler machen, die Unterstützung rechter Parteien als irrational und postfaktisch darzustellen. Kern unserer Forschung sollten jene ungleichen wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Strukturen sein, die zum Aufstieg rechter Parteien führen. ; The focus of our research on populism should not be on the inner circle of right wing parties, but on those that vote for these parties as a matter of protest or refuse to vote at all. We should also avoid the mistake of representing the support of right-wing parties as irrational and post-factual. At the core of our resarch should be those unequal economic and social structures that have led to the rise of right-wing parties in the first place.

For more than three decades, increasing financialisation has been a core feature of the European economy. This process does not only lead to economic instability, but also to social inequality. A driving force of financialisation in Europe are the internal market institutions of the European Union, aggravated through the introduction of the Euro and the programmes for rescuing the common currency. ; Durante más de tres décadas, la profundización del proceso de financiación ha constituido un elemento nuclear de la economía europea. Dicho proceso no solo ha generado inestabilidad económica, sino también desigualdad social. En Europa uno de los motores de dicha financiación ha sido el funcionamiento de las propias instituciones de la Unión Europea, agravado por la introducción del euro y por la aplicación de los programas de rescate de la moneda común. Dado que suele ser considerada como un escudo contra algunas de las consecuencias más negativas de la globalización, la Unión Europea debería constituirse en la institución preeminente a la hora de limitar el proceso de financiación, al objeto de favorecer una Europa más social. No obstante, tanto los fundamentos que la constituyen, como las relaciones de poder que operan dentro de la Unión, hacen que sea más probable que ésta se limite a facilitar el camino para una profundización tanto de la financiación como de la desigualdad social

The focus of this contribution is on the mode of capitalism within the industrialized sectors of "emerging markets". Particularly in the context of the rise of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) this question has gained considerable importance, also for the development of the world economy as a whole. The core question is whether the type of capitalism within these economies is similar to the capitalist variety of the triad, or diverges in more or less permanent ways. The article gives a preliminary answer to this question, by developing a rough sketch of a "BRIC" model of capitalism and illustrating this model with the case of Brazil. In terms of theory, the article extends the Comparative Capitalism (CC) perspective to the BRICs. On the one side, the focus is on the classical questions of CC, i.e. the determinants of economic development and the differences to other types of capitalism, on the other side the relationship between these varieties and social inequality. It argues that the "state-permeated market economies" of the BRICs rely on clans as a mode of social coordination. As demonstrated by the case of Brazil, this type of capitalism can be quite successful, but is based on a highly unequal distribution of economic and political resources.