Title
The Impact of Globalisation
M13025 (20 credits)
Level
3
Taught
Autumn Semester 2010
Module Convenor: Prof. Andreas Bieler
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CONTENTS
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Summary of Content: ......................................................................................... 3
Educational Aims: .............................................................................................. 3
Learning Outcomes: ........................................................................................... 3
Module Evaluation: ............................................................................................. 4
Lecture/Seminar Titles: ....................................................................................... 5
Week 1: ......................................................................................................... 5
Week 2: ......................................................................................................... 5
Week 3 ........................................................................................................ 10
Week 4 ........................................................................................................ 11
Week 5 ........................................................................................................ 13
Week 6 ........................................................................................................ 16
Week 7: ....................................................................................................... 17
Week 8: ....................................................................................................... 20
Week 9: ....................................................................................................... 22
Week 10....................................................................................................... 25
Week 11....................................................................................................... 28
Method and Frequency of Class: ......................................................................... 28
Method of Assessment: ..................................................................................... 29
Reading Information: ........................................................................................ 29
Coursework Support: ........................................................................................ 30
Guidance to Essay Writing: ................................................................................ 30
Assessed Essay Titles: ...................................................................................... 30
Example of Past Exam Paper: ............................................................................ 31
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Summary of Content:
Globalisation has been widely debated in International Political Economy. This module
has the task to assess its impact on European politics and integration. First, various
definitions of globalisation will be introduced, before its impact on individual European
countries and the European Union as a whole is analysed. Is there a general
institutional and policy convergence of states due to globalisation, or do states
respond in different ways? Does globalisation leave room for alternative economicpolitical models? Is European integration a defensive response to globalisation or
simply part and parcel of the processes of global structural change? What are the likely
characteristics of the future economic-political model of the EU? These are some of the
questions, which will be addressed in the module.
Educational Aims:
The aims of the module are:
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to introduce students to different theoretical approaches to globalisation and
structural change;
to develop an understanding of the phenomenon of globalisation at advanced
theoretical and empirical level;
to provide an understanding of the specific impact of globalisation on large and
small European countries;
to clarify the relation between European integration and global structural change;
Learning Outcomes:
i)
Knowledge and understanding:
On completion of the module, students should be in a position to
 demonstrate a particular knowledge in the area of globalisation and its impact on
European countries and the EU (to be assessed by a 3000 word essay and a twohour exam);
 develop an awareness of the possibilities and limits imposed by globalisation on
national and regional politics;
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Intellectual skills:
think about the global economy and its impact on countries and the EU in a
reflective and critical way;
the ability to link empirical material to theoretical approaches;
the capacity to concentrate on core points and the ability to speak freely on the
basis of a set of notes (to be assessed in oral presentations in class);
Professional/Practical skills:
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iv)
absorb and disseminate large quantities of data in a clear and concise manner;
have the confidence to discuss issues of an abstract theoretical nature as well as
linking these debates to concrete empirical examples (to be practised in tutorial
discussions);
Transferable & Key skills:
Through active participation in the module students will acquire
 the research skills necessary for carrying out comparative research;
 the capacity to engage in a structured and well informed discussion about complex
questions (to be practised in class discussions);
 the ability to write in a structured and concise way under time pressure (to be
assessed in the exam);
 the skill to write a thought through, well argued longer piece of work (to be
assessed in the 3000 word essay);
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IT skills:
the ability to deliver a professional, word-processed document with accompanying
bibliography and footnotes;
the skill to draw information and documents from the WebCT internet website and
use E-mail to communicate with module convenor;
Module Evaluation:
Evaluation and feedback are crucial to the success of any module. The School wants
students to have their say on Politics modules. Therefore modules are formally
evaluated on a biennial basis, so please use this opportunity to have your say. If you
have any other comments or queries regarding this module, please contact the Module
Convenor.
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Lecture/Seminar Titles:
Week 1:
1. Lecture - Introduction: outline of the module programme.
2. Seminar on economic
liberalism compared.
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policy
paradigms:
Keynesianism
and
neo-
What are the most important Keynesian and neo-liberal economic policies?
What is their respective underlying rationale?
Literature:
Gamble, Andrew (2001) ‘Neo-Liberalism’, Capital and Class, No.75: 127-34.
Gamble, Andrew (2006) ‘Two Faces of Neo-liberalism’, in Richard Robison (ed.) The
Neo-Liberal Revolution: Forging the Market State. Basingstoke: Palgrave. PP.20-35.
Hart-Landsberg, Martin (2006) ‘Neoliberalism: Myths and Reality’, Monthly Review,
Vol.57/11; http://www.monthlyreview.org/0406hart-landsberg.htm
Harvey, David (2006) ‘Neo-liberalism and the restoration of class power’, in David
Harvey (ed.) Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a theory of uneven geographical
development. London: Verso. PP.7-68.
Overbeek, Henk (1999), ‘Globalisation and Britain’s Decline’, in R. English and M.
Kenny (eds) Rethinking British Decline. London: Palgrave, 1999. PP.231-56.
Peck, J. and A. Tickell, 'Neoliberalising Space', Antipode, 34/3 (2002): 380-404.
Plehwe, D., B. Walpen and G. Neunhöffer (2006) ‘Introduction: Reconsidering
neoliberal hegemony’, in D. Plehwe, B. Walpen and G. Neunhöffer (eds.) Neoliberal
Hegemony: A Global Critique. London/New York: Routledge. PP.1-24.
Robison, Richard (2006) ‘Neo-liberalism and the Market State: What is the Ideal
Shell?’, in Richard Robison (ed.) The Neo-Liberal Revolution: Forging the Market State.
Basingstoke: Palgrave. PP.3-19.
Week 2:
1. Lecture on Theories of International Relations/International Political
Economy and the analysis of globalisation and the role of the state.
Themes:
 the core assumptions of neo-realism;
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the core assumptions of liberal IR/IPE approaches;
core assumptions of a neo-Gramscian perspective;
the post-war order of embedded liberalism;
[special reference: Ruggie, John Gerard (1982) ‘International regimes, transactions,
and change: embedded liberalism in the postwar economic order’, International
Organization, Vol.36/2: 379-415.]
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IR/IPE theories and the definition of globalisation;
Globalisation and the State: the terminal retreat of the state?
I. IR/IPE Theories:
Essential Reading:
Bieler, Andreas (2006) The struggle for a social Europe: Trade unions and EMU in
times of global restructuring. Manchester: Manchester University Press. PP.24-39 and
47-54.
Bieler, Andreas and Adam David Morton (2004) ‘A Critical Theory Route to Hegemony,
World Order and Historical Change: neo-Gramscian Perspectives in International
Relations’, Capital & Class, No.82: 85-113.
Bruff, Ian (2005) ‘Making Sense of the Globalisation Debate when Engaging in Political
Economy Analysis’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol.7/2: 26180.
Donnelly, Jack (2009) ‘Realism’, in Scott Burchill et al (eds.) Theories of International
Relations (fourth edition). Basingstoke: Palgrave. Chapter 2.
Zacher, Mark W./Matthew, Richard A. (1995) ‘Liberal International Theory: Common
Threads, Divergent Strands’, in Charles W. Kegley (ed.) Controversies in International
Relations Theory: Realism and the Neoliberal Challenge. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
PP.107-50.
Further reading:
Realism/Neo-realism:
Grieco, Joseph M. (1988) ‘Anarchy and the Limits of Cooperation: A Realist Critique of
the Newest Liberal Institutionalism’, International Organization, Vol.42/3: 485-507.
Waltz, Kenneth N. (1979) Theory of International Politics. Reading, Mass.: AddisonWesley.
Waltz, Kenneth N. (1995) ‘Realist Thought and Neorealist Theory’, in Charles W.
Kegley (ed.) Controversies in International Relations Theory: Realism and the
Neoliberal Challenge. New York: St. Martin’s Press. PP.67-82. [short loan]
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Liberalism:
Keohane, Robert O./Nye, Joseph S. (1977, second edition 1989) Power and
Interdependence: World Politics in Transition. Boston: Little Brown. Chapters 1 and 2.
Keohane, Robert O. (1984) After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World
Political Economy. Princeton/NJ: Princeton University Press. Chapters 1-3.
Keohane, Robert O. (1989) International Institutions and State Power. Boulder et al:
Westview Press. Chapter 4.
Putnam, R.D. (1988) ‘Diplomacy and domestic politics: the logic of two-level games’,
International Organization, Vol.42/3: 427-60.
Neo-Gramscian perspectives:
Cox, Robert W. (1981/1996) ‘Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond
International Relations Theory’, in Robert W. Cox with Timothy Sinclair (eds.)
Approaches to World Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. PP.85-123.
Cox, Robert W. (1983/1996) ‘Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations: An
Essay on Method’, in Robert W. Cox with Timothy Sinclair (eds.) Approaches to World
Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. PP.124-43.
Gill, Stephen (ed.) (1993) Gramsci, historical materialism and international relations,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Morton, A. (2007) Unravelling Gramsci: Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the
Global Political Economy. London: Pluto Press. [Especially Chapters 2 and 5.]
Overbeek, Henk (2000) ‘Transnational historical materialism: theories of transnational
class formation and world order’, in Ronen Polan (ed.) Global Political Economy:
Contemporary theories. London: Routledge. PP.168-83.
II. Literature on IR/IPE Theories and the definition of globalisation, ordered according
to theoretical approach:
Neo-realist analyses:
Gilpin, Robert (2000) The Challenge of Global Capitalism. Princeton: Princeton
University Press.
Gilpin, Robert (2001) Global Political Economy: Understanding the International
Economic Order. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Waltz, Kenneth N. (2000) ‘Globalization and American Power’, The National Interest,
No.59: 46-56.
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Liberal analyses:
Held, David/McGrew, Anthony/Goldblatt, David/Perraton, Jonathan (1999) Global
Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture. Cambridge: Polity. Introduction and
Chapters 3, 4 and 5.
Keohane, Robert O. (2002) Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World.
London: Routledge. Especially Chapter 9.
Scholte, Jan Aart (2005) Globalization: a critical introduction (second edition).
Basingstoke: Palgrave. Especially Chapters 1 to 5.
Wolf, Martin (2005) Why Globalization Works. Yale: Yale University Press.
Neo-Gramscian analyses:
Cox, Robert W. (1987) Production, Power And World Order: Social Forces in the
Making of History, New York: Columbia University Press. Part III.
Gill, Stephen (1995) ‘Globalisation, Market Civilisation and Disciplinary Neoliberalism’,
Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 24(3): 399-423.
Gill, Stephen (2007) Power and Resistance in the New World Order (second edition).
London Palgrave. Chapters 7-10.
Robinson, William I. (2004) A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class, and
State in a Transnational World. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.
Rupert, Mark (2000) Ideologies of Globalisation: Contending Visions of a New World
Order. London: Routledge. Especially Chapter 3.
III. Literature on IR/IPE Theories and the role of states in globalisation, ordered
according to theoretical approach:
Neo-realist analyses:
Hirst, Paul and Grahame Thompson (1999) Globalization in Question: The
International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance (second edition).
Cambridge: Polity. Chapters 6 and 9.
Weiss, Linda (1998) The Myth of the Powerless State: Governing the Economy in a
Global Era. Cambridge: Polity. Chapters 1 and 2, but especially 6 and 7.
Weiss, Linda (ed.) (2003) States in the Global Economy: Bringing Domestic
Institutions Back In. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1 and 14.
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Liberal analyses:
Cerny, Philip G. (2000) ‘Restructuring the Political Arena: Globalization and the
Paradoxes of the Competition State’, in Randall D. Germain (ed.) Globalization and its
Critics: Perspectives from Political Economy. Basingstoke: Palgrave. PP.117-38.
Cerny, Philip G. (2006) ‘Political Globalization and the Competition State’, in Richard
Stubbs and Geoffrey R.D. Underhill (eds.) Political Economy and the Changing Global
Order (third edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 26.
Higgott, Richard/Underhill, Geoffrey/Bieler, Andreas (eds.) (2000) Non-State Actors
and Authority in the Global System. London/New York: Routledge.
Ohmae, K. (1990) The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked
Economy. London: Collins.
Ohmae, K. (1995) The End of the Nation State: The Rise of Regional Economies.
London: Harper Collins.
Strange, Susan (1996) The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World
Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 4.
Work informed by neo-Gramscian perspectives and related approaches:
Bieler, Andreas and Adam David Morton (2003) ‘Globalisation, the State and Class
Struggle: A ‘Critical Economy’ Engagement with Open Marxism’, British Journal of
Politics and International Relations, Vol.5/4: 467-99.
Coates, David (2000) Models of Capitalism: Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era.
Cambridge: Polity. Chapter 8.
Panitch, L. (1994) ‘Globalisation and the State’, in R. Miliband and L. Panitch (eds)
Between Globalism And Nationalism. The Socialist Register 1994. London: The Merlin
Press. PP.60-93.
[reprinted as ‘Rethinking the Role of the State’, in James Mittelman (ed.) (1996)
Globalization: Critical Reflections. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner. PP.83-113.]
Panitch, Leo (2000) ‘The New Imperial State’, New Left Review (II), No. 2: 5-20.
Robinson, William I. (2004) A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class, and
State in a Transnational World. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.
2. Tutorial
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Which approach explains best globalisation and the role of the state?
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Week 3
1. Lecture on Models of Capitalism: divergence or convergence of national
economic-political systems?
Themes:
 convergence or divergence in the global economy;
 different models of capitalism;
Essential reading:
Becker, Uwe (2009) Open Varieties
Performances. Basingstoke. Palgrave.
of
Capitalism:
Continuity,
Change
and
Bieler, Andreas (2006) The struggle for a social Europe: Trade unions and EMU in
times of global restructuring. Manchester: Manchester University Press. PP.68-71.
Bruff, Ian (2008) Culture and Consensus in European varieties of capitalism. London:
Palgrave. Chapters 2 and 3.
Coates, D. (2000) Models of Capitalism: Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era.
Cambridge: Polity. PP.6-11.
Crouch, Colin (2005) ‘Models of Capitalism’, New Political Economy, Vol.10/4: 439-56.
Hall, P.A. and D.W. Gingerich (2009) ‘Varieties of Capitalism and Institutional
Complementarities in the Political Economy: An Empirical Analysis’, British Journal of
Political Science, Vol.35/3: 449-82.
Hall, P.A. and K. Thelen (2009) ‘Institutional Change in Varieties of Capitalism’, SocioEconomic Review, Vol.7/1: 7-34.
Hay, C. (2004) ‘Common trajectories, variable paces, divergent outcomes? Models of
European capitalism under conditions of complex economic interdependence’, Review
of International Political Economy, 11/2: 231-62.
Jackson, G. and R. Degg (2008) ‘From Comparing Capitalisms to the Politics of
Institutional Change’, Review of International Political Economy, Vol.15/4: 680-709.
Lane, Christel and Geoffrey Wood (2009) ‘Capitalist diversity and diversity within
capitalism’, Economy and Society, Vol.38/4: 531-51.
Further reading:
Albert, M. (1992) Capitalism vs. Capitalism. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows.
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Amable, B. (2003) The Diversity of Modern Capitalism. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Coates, David (1999) ‘Models of Capitalism in the New World Order: the UK Case’,
Political Studies, Vol.47/4: 643-660.
Hall P. and Soskice, D. (eds) (2001) Varieties of Capitalism. Oxford: Oxford University
Press. Introduction.
Hancké, Bob, Martin Rhodes and Mark Thatcher (eds.) (2007) Beyond Varieties of
Capitalism: Conflict, Contradictions, and Complementarities in the European Economy.
Oxford: Oxford University Press. [See, for example, chapter by Hall]
Menz, G. (2005) Varieties of Capitalism and Europeanization: National Response
Strategies to the Single European Market, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Perraton, Jonathan and Ben Clift (2003) Where are National Capitalisms now?
Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Schmidt, Vivien A. (2002) The Futures of European Capitalism. Oxford: Oxford
University Press. PP.107-46.
Streeck, Wolfgang and Kathleen Thelen (eds.) (2005) Beyond Continuity: Institutional
Change in Advanced Political Economies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2. Tutorial
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In times of globalisation, is there still space for different models of capitalism?
Week 4
1. Lecture on Britain in the global economy: any change under New
Labour?
Themes:
 early capitalism: the development of the British economic-political model;
 the impact of Thatherism in the 1980s and early 1990s;
 globalisation and the role of New Labour;
Essential reading:
Baker, Andrew (2006) ‘The Political Economy of the UK Competition State: Committed
Globalism, Selected Europeanism’, in Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey R.D. Underhill
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(eds.) Political Economy and the Changing Global Order (third edition). Oxford: Oxford
University Press. Chapter 29.
Bieler, Andreas (2006) The struggle for a social Europe: Trade unions and EMU in
times of global restructuring. Manchester: Manchester University Press. PP.55-6 and
71-76.
Brown, William and David Nash (2008) ‘What has been happening to collective
bargaining under New Labour?’, Industrial Relations Journal, Vol.39/2: 91-103.
Burnham, Peter (2001) ‘New Labour and the Politics of Depoliticisation’, British Journal
of Politics and International Relations, 3(2): 127-49.
Evans, M. (2005) ‘Neoliberalism and Policy Transfer in the British Competition State:
The Case of Welfare Reform’, in Susanne Soederberg, Georg Menz and Philip G. Cerny
(eds.) Internalizing Globalization: The Rise of Neoliberalism and the Decline of National
Varieties of Capitalism. London: Palgrave. Chapter 4.
Hay, C. and M. Watson (2003) ‘Diminishing Expectations: The Strategic Discourse of
Globalization in the Political Economy of New Labour’, in A.W. Cafruny and M. Ryner
(eds) A Ruined Fortress? Neoliberal Hegemony and Transformation in Europe, Lanham,
MD: Rowman & Littlefield. PP.147-72.
Hodson, Dermot and Deborah Mabbett (2009) ‘UK Economic Policy and the Global
Financial Crisis: Paradigm Lost?’, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol.47/5: 104161.
Further reading:
Brown, W. (2004) ‘Industrial Relations and the Economy’, in R. Floud and P. Johnson
(eds) The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain (Volume 3): Structural
Change and Growth, 1939–2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. PP.399423.
Brown, W., P. Margisson and J. Walsh (2003) ‘The management of pay as the
influence of collective bargaining diminishes’, in P. Edwards (ed.) Industrial Relations:
Theory and Practise. Oxford: Blackwell. PP.189-213.
Charlwood, Andy (2004) ‘The New Generation of Trade Union Leaders and Prospects
for Union Revitalization’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol.42/2: 379-97.
Clift, Ben and Jim Tomlinson (2008) ‘Whatever happened to the Balance of Payments
“Problem”? The Contingent
(Re) Construction of British Economic Performance
Assessment’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol.10/4: 607-29.
Howell, Chris (1999) ‘Unforgiven: British Trade Unionism in Crisis’, in Andrew Martin
and George Ross (eds.) The Brave New World of European Labour: European Trade
Unions at the Millennium. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books. PP.26-74.
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Hyman, Richard (2001) Understanding European Trade Unionism: Between Market,
Class and Society. London et al: SAGE. Chapter 5.
Ludlam, S., M. Bodah and D. Coates (2002) ‘Trajectories of solidarity: changing unionparty linkages in the UK and the USA’, British Journal of Politics and International
Relations, 4/2: 223-5.
Ludlam, Steve and Andrew Taylor (2003) ‘The Political Representation of the Labour
Interest in Britain’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol.41/4: 727-49.
McIlroy, John (2000a) ‘New Labour, New Unions, New Left’, Capital and Class, No.71:
11-45.
McIlroy, John (2000b) ‘The new politics of pressure - the Trades Union Congress and
new Labour in government’, Industrial Relations Journal, Vol.31/1: 2-16.
Maclean, M., C. Harvey and J. Press (2005) Business Elites and Corporate Governance
in France and the UK. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Strange, Gerard (2002) ‘British Trade Unions and European Union Integration in the
1990s: Politics versus Political Economy’, Political Studies, Vol.50: 332-53.
Watson, Matthew (2002) ‘Sand in the Wheels, or Oiling the Wheels, of International
Finance? New Labour’s Appeal to a “New Bretton Woods”’, British Journal of Politics
and International Relations, Vol.4/2: 193-221.
2. Tutorial
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‘New Labour implies a mere continuation of the neo-liberal restructuring of the
British economic-political model under the Conservatives.’ Discuss!
Week 5
1. Lecture on Germany in the global economy: ‘Modell Deutschland’ under
pressure.
Themes:
 the core features of Modell Deutschland;
 the transnationalisation of German production;
 the impact of German re-unification;
 changes in the German model due to globalisation;
Essential reading:
Bieler, Andreas (2006) The struggle for a social Europe: Trade unions and EMU in
times of global restructuring. Manchester: Manchester University Press. PP.56-7 and
76-81.
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Bruff, Ian (2008) Culture and Consensus in European varieties of capitalism. London:
Palgrave. Chapter 6 and relevant sections of Chapters 4 and 7.
Bruff, Ian (2008) ‘Germany’s Shift from the Alliance for Jobs to Agenda 2010: The Role
of Transnationalizing German Capital’, Debatte, Vol.16/3: 273-89.
Hardie, Iain and David Howarth (2009) ‘Die Krise but not La Crise? The Financial Crisis
and the Transformation of German and French Banking Systems’, Journal of Common
Market Studies, Vol.47/5: 1017-39.
Kinderman, D. (2005) ‘Pressure from without, subversion from within: the twopronged German employer offensive’, Comparative European Politics, Vol.3/4: 432-63.
Lütz, Susanne and Dagmar Eberle (2008) ‘Varieties of Change in German Capitalism:
Transforming the Rules of Corporate Control’, New Political Economy, Vol.13/4: 37795.
Menz, Georg (2005) ‘Auf Wiedersehen Rhineland Model: Embedding Neoliberalism in
Germany’, in Susanne Soederberg, Georg Menz and Philip G. Cerny (eds.) Internalizing
Globalization: The Rise of Neoliberalism and the Decline of National Varieties of
Capitalism. London: Palgrave. Chapter 2.
Raess, Damian (2006) ‘Globalization and why the “time is ripe” for the transformation
of German industrial relations’, Review of International Political Economy, Vol.13/3:
449-79.
Vitols, Sigurt (2006) ‘Globalization and the Transformation of the German Model’ in
Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey R.D. Underhill (eds.) Political Economy and the Changing
Global Order (third edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 28.
Further reading:
Behrens, Martin and Wade Jacoby (2004) ‘The Rise of Experimentalism in German
Collective Bargaining’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol.42/1: 95-123.
Bieler, Andreas (2003) ‘Labour, Neo-liberalism and the Conflict over Economic and
Monetary Union: a comparative analysis of British and German trade unions’, German
Politics, Vol.12/2: 24-44.
Bispinck, Reinhard/Schulten, Thorsten (2000) ‘Alliance for Jobs - is Germany following
the path of “competitive corporatism”’, in Giuseppe Fajertag and Phillippe Pochet
(eds.) Social Pacts in Europe - New Dynamics. Brussels: ETUI. PP.187-217.
Michel Goyer (2007) ‘Capital Mobility, Varieties of Institutional Investors and the
Transforming Stability of Corporate Governance in France and Germany’, in Bob
Hancké, Martin Rhodes and Mark Thatcher (eds.) Beyond varieties of capitalism:
conflict, contradiction, and complementarities in the European economy. Oxford, New
York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 7.
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Hyman, Richard (2001) Understanding European Trade Unionism: Between Market,
Class and Society. London et al: SAGE. Chapter 6.
Lane, Christel (2000) ‘Globalization and the German model of capitalism - erosion or
survival?’ British Journal of Sociology, Vol.51/2: 207-34.
Lane, Christel (2003) ‘Changes in corporate governance of German corporations:
convergence to the Anglo-American model?’, Competition & Change, 7/2-3: 79-100.
Macartney, Huw (2008) ‘Articulating Particularistic Interests: The Organic Organisers
of Hegemony in Germany and France’, British Journal of Politics and International
Relations, Vol.10/3: 429-51.
Martin, Andrew and George Ross (eds) (2004) Euros and Europeans: Monetary
Integration and the European Model of Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. Chapter 5.
Ryner, Magnus (2003) ‘Disciplinary Neo-liberalism and the Social Market in German
Restructuring: Implications for the EU’, in A.W. Cafruny and M. Ryner (eds) A Ruined
Fortress? Neoliberal Hegemony and Transformation in Europe, Lanham, MD: Rowman
& Littlefield. Chapter 9.
Streeck, W. (2009) Re-forming capitalism: institutional change in the German political
economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Streeck, W. and C. Trampusch (2005) ‘Economic Reform and the Political Economy of
the German Welfare State’, German Politics, Vol.14/2: 174-95.
Streeck, W. and A. Hassel (2003) ‘The Crumbling Pillars of Social Partnership’, West
European Politics, 26/4: 101-24.
Whittall, Michael (2005) ‘Modell Deutschland under Pressure: The Growing Tensions
between Works Councils and Trade Unions’, Economic and Industrial Democracy,
Vol.26/4: 569-92.
van der Wurff, Richard (1993) ‘Neo-liberalism in Germany? The ‘Wende’ in
perspective’, in Henk Overbeek (ed.) Restructuring Hegemony in the Global Political
Economy: The rise of transnational neo-liberalism in the 1980s. London/New York:
Routledge. PP.162-87. [copy available from me]
2. Tutorial
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The example of German restructuring demonstrates that different models of
capitalism are no longer viable in times of globalisation. Discuss!
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Week 6
1. Lecture on France in the global economy: the end of dirigisme?
Themes:
 dirigisme as a specific French economic-political model;
 the impact of European integration on France;
 the impact of globalisation on France;
Essential reading:
Bieler, Andreas (2006) The struggle for a social Europe: Trade unions and EMU in
times of global restructuring. Manchester: Manchester University Press. PP.57-8 and
82-6.
Clift, B. (2006) ‘The new Political Economy of Dirigisme: French Macroeconomic Policy,
Unrepentant Sinning and the Stability of Growth Pact’, British Journal of Politics and
International Relations, Vol.8/3: 388-409.
Clift, B. (2007) ‘French Corporate Governance in the New Global Economy:
Mechanisms of Change and Hybridisation within Models of Capitalism’, Political
Studies, Vol.55/3: 546-67.
Clift, B. (2008) ‘The Second Time as Farce? The EU Takeover Directive, the Clash of
Capitalisms and the Hamstrung Harmonization of European (and French) Corporate
Governance’, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol47/1: 55-79.
Hardie, Iain and David Howarth (2009) ‘Die Krise but not La Crise? The Financial Crisis
and the Transformation of German and French Banking Systems’, Journal of Common
Market Studies, Vol.47/5: 1017-39.
Michel Goyer (2007) ‘Capital Mobility, Varieties of Institutional Investors and the
Transforming Stability of Corporate Governance in France and Germany’, in Bob
Hancké, Martin Rhodes and Mark Thatcher (eds.) Beyond varieties of capitalism:
conflict, contradiction, and complementarities in the European economy. Oxford, New
York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 7.
Howell, Chris (2009) ‘The Transformation of French Industrial Relations: Labor
Representation and the State in a Post-Dirigiste Era’, Politics & Society, Vol.37/2: 22956.
Martin, Andrew and George Ross (eds) (2004) Euros and Europeans: Monetary
Integration and the European Model of Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. Chapter 4.
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Further reading:
Clift, B. (2003) ‘The Changing Political Economy of France: Dirigisme under Duress’, in
A.W. Cafruny and M. Ryner (eds) A Ruined Fortress? Neoliberal Hegemony and
Transformation in Europe, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. PP.173-200.
Daley, Anthony (1999) ‘The Hollowing Out of French Unions: Politics and Industrial
Relations after 1981’, in Andrew Martin and George Ross (eds.) The Brave New World
of European Labour: European Trade Unions at the Millennium. New York/Oxford:
Berghahn Books. PP.167-216.
Doleman, William D. (1997) ‘The French State, Dirigisme, and the Changing Global
Financial Environment’, in Geoffrey R.D. Underhill (ed.) The New World Order in
International Finance. Basingstoke: Palgrave. PP.274-93.
Kresl, Karl/Gallais, Sylvain (2002) France Encounters Globalization. Cheltenham:
Edward Elgar.
Macartney, Huw (2008) ‘Articulating Particularistic Interests: The Organic Organisers
of Hegemony in Germany and France’, British Journal of Politics and International
Relations, Vol.10/3: 429-51.
Maclean, Mairi (2002) Economic Management and French Business: From de Gaulle to
Chirac. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Maclean, M., C. Harvey and J. Press (2005) Business Elites and Corporate Governance
in France and the UK. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Milner, Susan (2001) ‘Globalisation and employment in France: between flexibility and
protection?’, Modern & Contemporary France, Vol.9/3: 327-37.
2. Tutorial

To what extent has globalisation changed the French economic-political model?
Week 7:
1. Lecture on the Rise and Fall of the Swedish Model.
Themes:
 small states and globalisation in a comparative assessment;
 the development of Swedish corporatism;
 the core features of Sweden’s economic-political model;
 the impact of globalisation on Sweden;
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Small states in the global economy:
Katzenstein, P.J. (1985) Small States in World Markets: Industrial Policy in Europe,
Ithaka/London: Cornell University Press.
Katzenstein, Peter (2003) ‘Small States and Small States Revisited’, New Political
Economy, Vol.8/1: 9-30.
Kurzer, P. (1993) Business and Banking: Political Change And Economic Integration In
Western Europe, Ithaka/London: Cornell University Press.
Essential reading:
Anxo, Dominique and Harald Niklasson (2008) The Swedish model: Revival after the
turbulent 1990s? Geneva: International Institute for Labour Studies. Available at:
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inst/publications/discussion/dp18908.pdf;
28/07/2010.
Belfrage, Claes and Magnus Ryner (2009) ‘Renegotiating the Swedish Social
Democratic Settlement: From Pension Fund Socialism to Neoliberalization’, Politics &
Society, Vol.37/2: 257-87.
Bieler, A. (2005) ‘The “Demise” of the Swedish Model: Globalisation, Neoliberalism and
Class Struggle’, in B. Moss (ed.) Monetary Union in Crisis: The European Union as a
Neo-Liberal Construction, London: Palgrave. PP.266-80.
Bieler, Andreas (2006) The struggle for a social Europe: Trade unions and EMU in
times of global restructuring. Manchester: Manchester University Press. PP.59 and 927.
Henrekson, Magnus and Ulf Jakobsson (2003) ‘The Transformation of Ownership Policy
and Structure in Sweden: Convergence towards the Anglo-Saxon Model?’, New Political
Economy, Vol.8/1: 73-102.
Steinmo, S. (2005) ‘The Evolution of the Swedish Model’, in Susanne Soederberg,
Georg Menz and Philip G. Cerny (eds.) Internalizing Globalization: The Rise of
Neoliberalism and the Decline of National Varieties of Capitalism. London: Palgrave.
Chapter 8.
Woolfson, Charles, Christer Thörnqvist and Jeffrey Sommers (2010) ‘The Swedish
model and the future of labour standards after Laval’, Industrial Relations Journal,
Vol.41/4: 333-50.
Further reading:
Andersson, Jenny (2006) Between Growth and Security: Swedish social democracy from
a strong society to a third way. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
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Bieler, Andreas (1999) ‘Globalisation, Swedish trade unions and European integration:
from Europhobia to conditional support’, Cooperation and Conflict, Vol.34/1: 21-46.
Bieler, Andreas (2000) Globalisation and Enlargement of the EU: Austrian and Swedish
Social Forces in the Struggle over Membership. London: Routledge. Chapter 2.
Bieler, Andreas (2003) ‘Swedish trade unions and Economic and Monetary Union: the
European Union membership debate revisited?’, Cooperation and Conflict, Vol.38/4:
385-407.
Blyth, M. (2002), Great Transformations: Economic ideas and institutional change in
the twentieth century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Olsen, G. (1991) ‘Labour Mobilization and the Strength of Capital: The Rise and Stall
of Economic Democracy in Sweden’, Studies in Political Economy 34: 109-45.
Olsen, G. (1996) ‘Re-Modeling Sweden: The Rise and Demise of the Compromise in a
Global Economy’, Social Problems, Vol.43/1: 1-20.
Pontusson, J. (1995) ‘Sweden: After the Golden Age’, in P. Anderson and P. Camiller
(eds) Mapping the West European Left. London/New York: Verso. PP.23-54.
Reiter, Joakim (2003) ‘Changing the Microfoundations of Corporatism: The Impact of
Financial Globalisation on Swedish Corporate Ownership’, New Political Economy,
Vol.8/1: 103-25.
Ryner, M. (2002) Capitalist Restructuring, Globalisation and the Third Way: Lessons
from the Swedish Model. London/New York: Routledge. Especially Chapter 7.
Ryner, M. (2007) ‘The Nordic Model: Does it Exist? Can it Survive?’, New Political
Economy, Vol.12/1: 61-70.
Steinmo, S. (2003) ‘Bucking the Trend? The Welfare State and the Global Economy:
The Swedish Case Up Close’, New Political Economy, Vol.8/1: 31-48.
Swenson, P. (1991a) ‘Bringing Capital back in, or Social Democracy reconsidered’,
World Politics 43: 513-44.
Swenson, P. (1991b) ‘Labor and the Limits of the Welfare State: The Politics of
Intraclass Conflict and Cross-Class Alliances in Sweden and West Germany’,
Comparative Politics 23, 4: 379-99.
Whyman, Philip (2003) Sweden and the ‘Third Way’: A macroeconomic evaluation.
Aldershot: Ashgate.
2. Tutorial

What and who caused the demise of the Swedish Model?
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Week 8:
1. Lecture on Norway’s and Switzerland’s economic-political
successful alternatives to market-oriented capitalism?
model:
Themes:
 the core features of Norway’s economic-political model;
 the core features of Switzerland’s economic-political model;
 in what way are traditional models of capitalism preserved in times of global
structural change?
Essential reading:
Alfonso, Alexandre (2010) ‘Policy concertation, Europeanization and new political
cleavages: The case of Switzerland’, European Journal of Industrial Relations,
Vol.16/1: 57-72.
Alsos, K. and Eldring, L. (2008) ‘Labour mobility and wage dumping: The case of
Norway’, European Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 14/4: 441–59.
Börsch, A. (2007) ‘Globalization, institutional variation and coordination patterns in
CMEs: Swiss and German corporate governance in comparison’, in Bob Hancké, Martin
Rhodes and Mark Thatcher (eds.) Beyond varieties of capitalism: conflict,
contradiction, and complementarities in the European economy. Oxford, New York:
Oxford University Press. Chapter 6.
Bowman, J. (2002) ‘Employers and the persistence of centralized wage setting: the
case of Norway’, Comparative political studies, Vol.35/9: 995-1026.
Gulbrandsen, Trygve and Fredrik Engelstad (2005) ‘Elite consensus on the Norwegian
welfare state model’, West European Politics, Vol.28/4: 898-918.
Lane, Jan-Erik (2001) ‘The Political Economy of Switzerland: A Monetarist Success?’,
West European Politics, Vol.24/2: 191-210.
Mach, André, Silja Häusermann and Yannis Papadopoulos (2003) ‘Economic regulatory
reforms in Switzerland: adjustment without European integration, or how rigidities
became flexible’, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol.10: 301-18.
Nergaard, K. and Stokke, T.A. (2007) 'The puzzles of union density in Norway',
Transfer, Vol. 13/4: 653–70.
Rommetvedt, Hilmar (2005) ‘Norway: Resources count, but votes decide? From neocorporatist representation to neo-pluralist parliamentarism’, West European Politics,
Vol.28/4: 740-63.
Sousa-Poza, A. (2004) ‘Job stability and job security: a comparative perspective on
Switzerland's experience in the 1990s’, European Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol.
10/1: 31-50.
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Wahl (2010) ‘How new social alliances changed politics in Norway’, in Andreas Bieler
and Ingemar Lindberg (eds.) Global Restructuring, Labour and the Challenges for
Transnational Solidarity. London: Routledge. Chapter 12.
Additional reading:
Norway:
Archer, Clive (2004) Norway outside the European Union: Norway and European
Integration from 1994 to 2004. London: Routledge.
Bieler, Andreas and Stina Torjesen (2001) ‘Strength through Unity? A comparative
analysis of splits in the Austrian, Norwegian and Swedish Labour Movements over EU
membership’, in Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton (eds.) Social Forces in the
Making of the New Europe: the restructuring of European social relations in the global
political economy. Houndmills: Palgrave. PP.115-36.
Claes, Dag Harald (2002) ‘The Process of Europeanisation: Norway and the Internal
Energy Market’, Journal of Public Policy, Vol.22: 299-323.
Dølvik, Jan Erik (1998) Norwegian Trade Unionism Between Traditionalism and
Modernisation. Oslo: Fafo.
Dølvik, J./Steen, A. (eds.) (1997) Making Solidarity Work: the Norwegian labour
market in transition. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press.
Dølvik, J./Stokke, Torgeir Aarvaag (1998) ‘Norway: The Revival of Centralized
Concertation’, in Anthony Ferner and Richard Hyman (eds.) Changing Industrial
Relations in Europe (second edition). Oxford: Blackwell. PP.118-45.
Dølvik, Jan Erik/Martin, Andrew (2000) ‘A Spanner in the Works and Oil on Troubled
Waters: The Divergent Fates of Social Pacts in Sweden and Norway’, in Giuseppe
Fajertag and Phillippe Pochet (eds.) Social Pacts in Europe - New Dynamics. Brussels:
ETUI. PP.279-319.
Freeman, Richard B. (1997) ‘Are Norway’s Solidaristic and Welfare State Policies Viable
in the Modern Global Economy’, in Jan Erik Dølvik and Arild H. Steen (eds.) Making
Solidarity Work: the Norwegian labour market in transition. Oslo: Scandinavian
University Press.
Gstöhl, Sieglende (2002) Reluctant Europeans: Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland in
the Process of Integration. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.
Midttun, Atle (1990) ‘Norway in the 1980s: Competitive Adaptation or Structural
Crisis? A Comment on Katzenstein’s Small-State/Flexible Adjustment Thesis’,
Scandinavian Political Studies, Vol.13: 307-26.
Parker, R. (2000) ‘Industrial transformation in Austria, Norway and Sweden’, Industry
and innovation, Vol.7/2: 145-168.
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Stokke & Thörnqvist (2001) ‘Strikes and collective bargaining in the Nordic countries’,
European journal of industrial relations, Vol.7/3: 245-267.
Tranvik & Selle (2007) ‘The rise and fall of popular mass movements: organizational
change and globalization - the Norwegian case’, Acta sociologica [Norway], 50/1: 5770.
Switzerland:
Armingeon, Klaus (2001) ‘Institutionalising the Swiss Welfare State’, West European
Politics, Vol.24/2: pp. 145-168.
Church, Clive H. (2004) The Politics and Government of Switzerland. Basingstoke:
Palgrave.
Church, Clive H. (ed.) (2006) Switzerland and the European Union. London:
Routledge.
Dupont, C. et al (1999) ‘Catching the EC Train: Austria and Switzerland in
Comparative Perspective’, European Journal of International Relations, Vol.5/2: 189224.
Fluder, Robert/Hotz-Hart, Beat (1998) ‘Switzerland: Still as Smooth as Clockwork?’, in
Anthony Ferner and Richard Hyman (eds.) Changing Industrial Relations in Europe
(second edition). Oxford: Blackwell. PP.262-82.
Sciarini, Pascal/Listhaug, Ola (1997) ‘Single Cases or Unique Pair? The Swiss and
Norwegian “No” to Europe’, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol.35/3: 407-38.
2. Tutorial

In contrast to Sweden, have Norway and Switzerland been able to maintain their
traditional economic-political model and, if so, why?
Week 9:
1. Lecture on Globalisation and the future European model of capitalism.
Themes:
 the underlying rationale of the revival of European integration around the Internal
Market and Economic and Monetary Union since the mid-1980s;
 the Social Dimension and multi-sector social dialogue;
 the revival of European integration and the transnational restructuring of European
social relations;
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Essential reading:
van Apeldoorn, Bastiaan (2006) ‘The Transnational Political Economy of European
Integration: The Future Socio-Economic Governance in the Enlarged Union’, in Richard
Stubbs and Geoffrey R.D. Underhill (eds.) Political Economy and the Changing Global
Order (third edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 21.
Bieler, Andreas (2006) The struggle for a social Europe: Trade unions and EMU in
times of global restructuring. Manchester: Manchester University Press. PP.9-14 and
199-219.
Bieler, A. (2009) ‘Globalization and Regional Integration: The Possibilities and
Problems for Trade Unions to Resist Neo-liberal Restructuring in Europe’, in Bastiaan
van Apeldoorn, Jan Drahokoupil and Laura Horn (eds.) Neoliberal European
Governance and Beyond: The contradictions of a political project. Basingstoke:
Palgrave.
Grahl, John (ed.) (2009) Global finance and social Europe. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Hassel, Anke (2009) ‘Policies and Politics in Social Pacts in Europe’, European Journal
of Industrial Relations, Vol.15/2: 7-26.
Natali, David and Philippe Pochet (2009) ‘The Evolution of Social Pacts in the EMU Era:
What Type of Institutionalization?’, European Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol.15/2:
147-66.
Parker, Owen (2008) ‘Challenging “New Constitutionalism” in the EU: French
Resistance, “Social Europe” and “Soft” Governance’, New Political Economy, Vol.13/4:
397-417.
Schulten, Thorsten (2008) ‘Towards a European Minimum Wage Policy? Fair Wages
and Social Europe’, European Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol.14/4: 421-39.
Waddington, Jeremy (2005) ‘Trade unions and the defence of the European social
model’, Industrial Relations Journal, Vol.36/6: 518-40.
Wahl, A. (2004) ‘European Labour: The Ideological Legacy of the Social Pact’, Monthly
Review, 55(8), New York: Monthly Review Press. PP. 37-49. Available at
http://www.monthlyreview.org/0104wahl.htm; accessed 18 June 2007.
Further reading:
van Apeldoorn, Bastiaan (2002) Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over
European Integration. London: Routledge.
Bieler, Andreas (2002) ‘The Struggle over EU Enlargement: a historical materialist
analysis of European integration’, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol.9/4: 575-97.
Bieler, Andreas (2005) ‘European Integration and the Transnational Restructuring of
Social Relations: the Emergence of Labour as a Regional Actor?’, Journal of Common
Market Studies, Vol.43/3: 461-84.
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Bieler, A. and A.D. Morton (2004) ‘“Another Europe is Possible”? Labour and social
movements at the European Social Forum’, Globalizations, Vol.1/2: 303-25.
Bieling, Hans-Jürgen (2003) ‘Social Forces in the Making of the New European
Economy: The case of Financial Market Integration’, New Political Economy, Vol.8/2:
203-23.
Bieling, Hans-Jürgen (2006) ‘EMU, financial integration and global
governance’, Review of International Political Economy, Vol.13/3: 420-48.
economic
Bieling, H.-J. and J. Jäger (2009) ‘Global Finance and the European Economy: The
Struggle over Banking Regulation’, in Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, Jan Drahokoupil and
Laura Horn (eds.) Neoliberal European Governance and Beyond: The contradictions of
a political project. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Bieling, H.-J. and T. Schulten (2003) ‘“Competitive Restructuring” and Industrial
Relations within the European Union: Corporatist Involvement and Beyond’, in A.W.
Cafruny and M. Ryner (eds) A Ruined Fortress? Neoliberal Hegemony and
Transformation in Europe, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. PP.231-59.
Hassel, Anke (2003) ‘The Politics of Social Pacts’, British Journal of Industrial
Relations, Vol.41/4: 707-26.
Holman, Otto and Kees van der Pijl (2003) ‘Structure and Process in Transnational
European Business’, in A.W. Cafruny and M. Ryner (eds) A Ruined Fortress? Neoliberal
Hegemony and Transformation in Europe, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Chapter
4.
Huffschmid, J. (2005) Economic Policy for a Social Europe: A Critique of Neo-liberalism
and Proposals for Alternatives. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Marginson, P. and K. Sisson (2004) European Integration and Industrial Relations:
Multi-level Governance in the Making, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Martin, A. (2004) ‘The EMU macroeconomic policy regime and the European social
model’, in A. Martin and G. Ross (eds.) Euros and Europeans: Monetary Integration
and the European Model of Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. PP.20-50.
Martin, Andrew and George Ross (eds) (2004) Euros and Europeans: Monetary
Integration and the European Model of Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. Chapters 2, 10 and 12.
Sisson, Keith, James Arrowsmith and Paul Marginson (2003) ‘All benchmarkers now?
Benchmarking and the “Europeanisation” of industrial relations’, Industrial Relations
Journal, Vol.34/1: 15-31.
[available at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/toc.asp?ref=0019-8692]
Taylor, G. and A. Mathers (2002) ‘The Politics of European Integration: A European
Labour Movement in the Making?’, Capital & Class, 78: 39-60.
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Taylor, G. and A. Mathers (2004) ‘The European Trade Union Confederation at the
Crossroads of Change? Traversing the Variable Geometry of European Trade
Unionism’, European Journal of Industrial Relations, 10/3: 267-85.
Tidow, S. (2003) ‘The emergence of European employment policy as a transnational
political arena’, in H. Overbeek (ed.) The Political Economy of European Employment,
London: Routledge. PP.77-98.
Underhill, Geoffrey R. D. (1997) ‘The Making of the European Financial Area: Global
Market Integration and the EU Single Market for Financial Services’, in Geoffrey R.D.
Underhill (ed.) The New World Order in International Finance. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
PP.101-23.
2. Tutorial

To what extent is the Social Dimension countering the shift towards an AngloAmerican model of capitalism in the EU?
Week 10
1. Lecture on EU Eastward Enlargement and the transformation of Central
and Eastern European countries.
Literature on EU enlargement:
Bieler, A. (2000) Globalisation and Enlargement of the European Union: Austrian and
Swedish social forces in the struggle over membership. London: Routledge. [Chapter 6
on Eastward enlargement.]
Bohle, D. (2006) ‘Neoliberal hegemony, transnational capital and the terms of the EU’s
eastward expansion’, Capital & Class, No.88: 57-86.
Bohle, D. and D. Husz (2005) ‘Whose Europe is it? Interest group action in accession
negotiations: the cases of competition policy and labor migration’, politique
européenne, 15: 85-112.
Holman, O. (2001) ‘The Enlargement of the European Union towards Central and
Eastern Europe: the role of supranational and transnational actors’, in A. Bieler and
A.D. Morton (eds.) Social Forces in the Making of the New Europe: the restructuring of
European social relations in the global political economy, Houndmills: Palgrave.
PP.161-84.
Krings, Torben (2009) ‘A Race to the Bottom? Trade Unions, EU Enlargement and the
Free Movement of Labour’, European Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol.15/1: 49-69.
Meardi, Guglielmo, Paul Marginson, Michael Fichter et al (2009) ‘The Complexity of
Relocation and the Diversity of Trade Union Responses: Efficiency-oriented Foreign
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Direct Investment in Central Europe’, European Journal of Industrial Relations,
Vol.15/1: 27-47.
Schimmelfennig, Frank and Ulrich Sedelmeier (eds.) (2005) The Politics of European
Union Enlargement: Theoretical Approaches. London: Routledge. [Chapters 6 to 10.]
Shields, S. (2003) ‘The Charge of the “Right Brigade”: Transnational Social Forces and
the Neoliberal Configuration of Poland’s Transition’, New Political Economy, 8/2: 22544.
Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel (2003) EU Enlargement versus Social Europe? The
Uncertain Future of the European Social Model. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Literature on the transformation of Central and Eastern European countries:
Bohle, D. (2009) ‘Race to the Bottom? Transnational Companies and Reinforced
Competition in the Enlarged European Union’, in Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, Jan
Drahokoupil and Laura Horn (eds.) Neoliberal European Governance and Beyond: The
contradictions of a political project. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Bohle, D. and B. Greskovits (2006) ‘Capitalism without Compromise: Strong Business
and Weak Labor in Eastern Europe’s New Transnational Industries’, Studies in
Comparative International Development, Vol.41/1: 3-25.
Bohle, D. and B. Greskovits (2007) ‘Neoliberalism, Embedded Neoliberalism and
Neocorporatism: Towards Transnational Capitalism in Central-Eastern Europe’, West
European Politics, Vol.30/3: 443-66.
Drahokoupil, Jan (2009) ‘The Rise of the Competition State in the Visegrad Four:
Internationalization of the State as a Social Project’, in Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, Jan
Drahokoupil and Laura Horn (eds.) Neoliberal European Governance and Beyond: The
contradictions of a political project. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Drahokoupil, Jan (2009) ‘After Transition: Varieties of Political-economic Development
in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union’, Comparative European Politics,
Vol.7/2: 279-98.
Dyson, Kenneth (2006) Enlarging the Euro Area: External Empowerment and Domestic
Transformation in East Central Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [See Chapters
6 to 11 for country case studies.]
Feldmann, M (2006) ‘Emerging varieties of capitalism in transition countries: industrial
relations and wage bargaining in Estonia and Slovenia’, Comparative Political Studies,
Vol.39/7: 829-854.
Feldmann, M. (2007) ‘The origins of varieties of capitalism: lessons from post-socialist
transition in Estonia and Slovenia’, in Bob Hancké, Martin Rhodes and Mark Thatcher
(eds.) Beyond varieties of capitalism: conflict, contradiction, and complementarities in
the European economy. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 12.
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Freyberg-Inan, Annette (2006) ‘Transition Economies’, in Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey
R.D. Underhill (eds.) Political Economy and the Changing Global Order (third edition).
Oxford: Oxford University Press. PP.419-30.
Lane, David and Martin Myant (eds.) (2007) Varieties of Capitalism in Post-communist
Countries. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Lawrence King (2007) ‘Central European Capitalism in Comparative Perspective’, in
Bob Hancké, Martin Rhodes and Mark Thatcher (eds.) Beyond varieties of capitalism:
conflict, contradiction, and complementarities in the European economy. Oxford, New
York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 11.
Lindstrom, N. (2005) ‘The Politics of Europeanization and Post-Socialist Transitions:
Slovenia and Estonia’s Diverging Paths to Europe’, unpublished paper. [Copy available
from me.]
Lindstrom, N. and D. Piroska (2007) ‘The Politics of Europeanization in Europe’s
Southeastern Periphery: Slovenian Banks and Breweries on Sale?’, Competition and
Change, Vol.11(2): 117-135.
Meardi, G. (2007) ‘More voice after more exit? Unstable industrial relations in Central
Eastern Europe’, Industrial Relations Journal, Vol.38/6: 503-523.
Meardi, G. (2007) ‘Multinationals in the new EU member states and the revitalisation
of trade unions’, Debatte, Vol.15/2: 177-194.
Nölke, A. and A. Vliegenhart (2009) ‘Enlarging the Varieties of Capitalism: The
Emergence of Dependent Market Economies in East Central Europe’, World Politics,
Vol.61/4: 670-702.
Orenstein, Mitchell, Stephen Bloom and Nicole Lindstrom (eds.) (2008) Transnational
Actors and Central and East European Transitions. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh
Press.
Ost, David (2006) ‘After Postcommunism: Legacies and the Future of Unions in
Eastern Europe’, in Craig Phelan (ed.) The Future of Organised Labour: Global
Perspectives. Oxford et al: Peter Lang. PP.305-31.
Petrylaite & Woolfson (2006) ‘“Missing in action”: the right to strike in the Baltic new
member states - an absent EU competence’, International journal of comparative
labour law and industrial relations, Vol.22/4: 439-467.
Stockhammer, Engelbert and Özlem Onaran (2009) ‘National and Sectoral Influences
on Wage Determination in Central and Eastern Europe’, European Journal of Industrial
Relations, Vol.15/3: 317-38.
Vliegenthart, A. and H. Overbeek (2009) ‘Corporate Tax Reform in neoliberal Europe:
East Central Europe as a Template for Deepening the Neoliberal European Integration
Project?’, in Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, Jan Drahokoupil and Laura Horn (eds.) Neoliberal
European Governance and Beyond: The contradictions of a political project.
Basingstoke: Palgrave.
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2. Tutorial
‘The Central and Eastern European models of capitalism are even more neo-liberal
than those of Western Europe.’ Discuss!
Week 11
Revision session: overview of module contents and exam areas, time for student
questions.
Seminar discussions will be based on readings listed above, please ensure
that you have familiarised yourself with the relevant required readings before
the seminars.
Please note that registers will be taken in seminars, should you be unable to
attend, please email the Module Convenor.
Method and Frequency of Class:
Activity
Lecture
Seminar
Number of Sessions
11
11
Duration of a Session
1h
1h
Location of Lecture:
Day:
Time:
UP-CLIVEG-A39+
Monday
1 to 2 p.m.
Location of Seminar:
Day:
Time:
A1 Coates
Tuesday
4 pm
After each lecture, the lecture notes will be posted on WebCT, which can be accessed
at http://webct.nottingham.ac.uk using your University network username and
password. This will allow you to compare your own notes with the lecture notes and to
go through the material learned in the lecture in an organised and systematic way.
Once registered you can access the class at any time from any PC with an internet
connection. You are expected to connect to the classroom at least once a week.
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Method of Assessment:
This 20 credit will be assessed on the following basis:
Assessment Type
Exam 1
Coursework 1
Oral presentation
Weight
40 per cent
40 per cent
20 per cent
Requirements
One and a half hour exam
3000 word essay
seminar presentation
The assessed essay should be submitted to the School Office by Wednesday 17th
November. When submitting your essay please make sure that you submit it in
duplicate, date stamp both the essays and the cover sheet and then submit in person
to the School Office. You will be issued with a receipt for your essay. Please note that
the School Office will be open from 10am till 4pm (Monday to Friday) on submission
days. Essays handed in after 4pm will be stamped as late and usual University
penalties will be applied.
The standard University penalty for late submission should be 5% absolute standard
University scale per normal working day, until the mark reaches zero. For example, an
original mark of 67% would be successively reduced to 62%, 57%, 52%, 47% etc.
Normal working days include vacation periods, but not weekends or public holidays.
Applications for extensions will not normally be considered retrospectively. Any
student wishing to apply for an extension should collect and complete the necessary
forms from the School Office and submit these to the relevant Year Tutor together
with any necessary documentary evidence.
Reading Information:
There is no textbook available for this module, but the following books contain
chapters for several of the lectures and tutorials of this module:
Bieler, Andreas (2006) The struggle for a social Europe: Trade unions and EMU in
times of global restructuring. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [short loan]
Cafruny, Alan W. and M. Ryner (eds) (2003) A Ruined Fortress? Neoliberal Hegemony
and Transformation in Europe, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. [short loan]
Stubbs, Richard and Geoffrey R.D. Underhill (eds.) (2006) Political Economy and the
Changing Global Order (third edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [short loan]
Also highly relevant for almost all of the themes covered in this module is the following
book by David Coates:
Coates, D. (2000) Models of Capitalism: Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era.
Cambridge: Polity. [short loan]
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Journals
There are no specific analytical journals for this module due to the wide coverage of
topics. Please consult the reading list for individual journal articles. All journal articles
referred to in this module guide are in the Library, either as a printed copy or in an
electronic version on line. Some articles may only be available as a photocopy in the
short-loan section of the Library. You have to search for them by author and title as if
you were looking for a book.
Coursework Support:
The Hallward Library and Halls of Residence have a number of networked PCs to
facilitate access to information on holdings.
As Module Convenor please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any difficulties
with the module or assessed work. I will be available without appointment during my
office hours. Appointments to meet at other times can be made by calling me on my
direct line or via email. My contact details together with office hours are noted at the
front of this module outline.
Guidance to Essay Writing:
A short guide for students on essay writing skills and an outline of the marking criteria
used by staff is available from the School Office intranet.
Assessed Essay Titles:
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Which approach explains best globalisation and the role of the state?
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In times of globalisation, is there still space for different models of capitalism?
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‘New Labour implies a mere continuation of the neo-liberal restructuring of the
British economic-political model under the Conservatives.’ Discuss!

The example of German restructuring demonstrates that different models of
capitalism are no longer viable in times of globalisation. Discuss!
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To what extent has globalisation changed the French economic-political model?
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What and who caused the demise of the Swedish Model?

In contrast to Sweden, have Norway and Switzerland been able to maintain their
traditional economic-political model and, if so, why?
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To what extent is the Social Dimension countering the shift towards an AngloAmerican model of capitalism in the EU?
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‘The Central and Eastern European models of capitalism are even more neo-liberal
than those of Western Europe.’ Discuss!
Reminder: submission date is 4pm on Wednesday, 17 November.
Example of Past Exam Paper:
Exam academic year 2006/2007
Answer two of the following questions:
1. ‘As a result of global restructuring pressures, national models of capitalism will
inevitably converge around the Anglo-American economic-political model.’
Discuss!
2. To what extent will it be possible to retain collective bargaining within the
German model of capitalism?
3. ‘British trade unions should be content with the Labour governments since
1997, because their influence on macroeconomic policy-making has strongly
increased since then.’ Discuss!
4. Does France prove that a state-led model of capitalism is still viable in today’s
global economy?
5. Are small states better able to retain their traditional economic-political model in
times of global restructuring? Answer this question with reference to at least
two countries.
6. Which ideal type model of capitalism does the EU currently resemble most?
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