Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Comparative Political Economy from a Northern European Perspective

Torben Iversen and Jonas Pontusson

Chapter 2: Macroeconomic Analysis and the Political Economy of Unemployment

David Soskice

Part I: Wage Bargaining

Chapter 3: The Swedish Employer Offensive Against Centralized Bargaining

Peter Swenson and Jonas Pontusson

Chapter 4: Post-War Wage Setting in the Nordic Countries

Michael Wallerstein and Miriam Golden

Chapter 5: Why German Employers Cannot Bring Themselves to Dismantle the German Model

Kathleen Thelen

Part II: Macroeconomic Regimes

Chapter 6: Institutional Dimensions of Coordinating Wage Bargaining and Monetary Policy

Robert Franzese and Peter Hall

Chapter 7: Decentralization, Monetarism and the Social Democratic Welfare State

Torben Iversen

Chapter 8: The Politics of Macroeconomic Policy and Wage Negotiations in Sweden

Andrew Martin

Part III: Macroeconomic and Distributive Outcomes

Chapter 9: Public Sector Unions, Corporatism and Wage Determination

Geoffrey Garrett and Christopher Way

Chapter 10: Labor-Market Institutions and Wage Distribution

Jonas Pontusson