Capitalists Against Markets: The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden

By B. Waddell. Perspectives on Politics, 2005

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Insecure Alliances: Risk, Inequality, and Support for the Welfare State (2012, background): “…takes a very different view: The fundamental basis for the welfare state, revisionists argue, is not redistribution, but demand for insurance that cuts across class lines (Baldwin 1990; Cusack, Iversen, and Rehm 2006; Iversen and Soskice 2001; Mares 2003; Moene and Wallerstein 2001; Swenson 2002).”
Explaining the welfare state: power resources vs. the Quality of Government (2011, background): “…Palme, 2003; Allan and Scruggs, 2004).1 1 The PRT has been challenged by theories focusing on the importance of employers and cross-class alliances (Swenson, 2002; Mares, 2003), on variation in systems of skill formation (Estevez-Abe et al., 2001), The analytical problem that we would like to…”
Asset Specificity, Institutional Complementarities and the Variety of Skill Regimes in Coordinated Market Economies (2009, background): “The thought-provoking thesis that emerges from this literature is that employers (in CMEs) support the establishment and maintenance of the welfare state out of rational economic interest (Mares, 2001, 2003; Swenson, 2002; Iversen, 2005).”
Ideas, interests and institutions in the comparative political economy of great transformations (2004, background): “Peter A. Swenson (2002) Capitalists Against Markets: The Making of Labour Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden, New York: Oxford University Press.”