Systemic Cycle and Institutional Change: Labor Markets in the USA, Germany and China

Preface
Contents
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1 Introduction
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2 World-Systems Analysis and the Systemic Cycle
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 The Process of Capitalism: World-Systems Analysis and the Systemic Cycle
		2.2.1 Defining the Unit of Analysis: Immanuel Wallerstein
		2.2.2 Explaining the Process of Capitalism: Giovanni Arrighi and the Systemic Cycle
		2.2.3 Understanding the Effects of the Process of Capitalism on Labor Power: Beverly Silver
	2.3 The Uses of the Systemic Cycle
		2.3.1 Historical Grounding Versus Equilibrium Atemporality
		2.3.2 The Capitalist Structure, Process, and Crisis
		2.3.3 Institutions, Organizations, and Agency
	2.4 Conclusion
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3 Institutions and Institutional Change
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 The Emergence of New Institutionalism in Political Science: Arguing Endogenous Stability
		3.2.1 Rational Choice Institutionalism
		3.2.2 Sociological Institutionalism
		3.2.3 Historical Institutionalism
	3.3 Varieties of Capitalism: Systemic Institutional Thought
	3.4 Beyond Varieties of Capitalism: Issues with Dynamics and Types
	3.5 Toward a New Framework: Comparative Dynamics in New Institutionalism
	3.6 Conclusion
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4 Framework-Oriented Interpretations of the Systemic Cycle and Institutional Theory
	4.1 Demand- and Supply-Side Interpretations of the Systemic Cycle Theory
	4.2 Addressing the Issue of Endogenous Change in Institutional Analysis
		4.2.1 Conceptualizing Institutions Between Power Resources and Externalities
		4.2.2 Similarities and Synergies of the Systemic Cycle and Institutional Analysis
		4.2.3 Delimiting the Two Groups of Theories via Drivers
	4.3 Conclusions
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5 A Systemic Cycle-Oriented Framework of Institutional Change
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Drivers of Institutional Change: Building the New Framework
		5.2.1 Channel 1: Path Dependence—The Importance of Institutional Starting Positions
		5.2.2 Channel 2: Complex Interaction of Power Relations and the Systemic Cycle
			5.2.2.1 Technology
			5.2.2.2 Phase of the Systemic Cycle
			5.2.2.3 Trade Relations—Current and Changing Positions in the World-System
			5.2.2.4 Developmental Strategies
			5.2.2.5 Power Relations
		5.2.3 Channel 3: Institutional Design—Domestic Politics and Transnational Conditionality
	5.3 The Framework of Change in Labor Institutions
	5.4 Illustrating the Framework of Labor-Institutional Changes
		5.4.1 The Importance of Labor Institutions
		5.4.2 Case Selection: USA, Germany, PR China
		5.4.3 Interval Selection: 1980s to Today
	5.5 Conclusions
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6 Labor Market in United States of America
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Labor Institutions in USA
		6.2.1 Formal Labor Institutions
		6.2.2 Informal Labor Institutions
		6.2.3 Avoidable Labor Institutions
	6.3 Changes in Labor Institutions in USA
		6.3.1 Channel 1: Path Dependence—Institutional Starting Positions of USA
		6.3.2 Channel 2: Cyclical Power Relations in USA
			6.3.2.1 Technology and Sectoral Labor Market Structure in USA
			6.3.2.2 Phase of the Systemic Cycle
			6.3.2.3 Trade Relations of USA
			6.3.2.4 Developmental Strategies of USA
			6.3.2.5 Power Relations in USA
		6.3.3 Channel 3: Institutional Design—Domestic Politics and Transnational Conditionality in USA
	6.4 Social Effects of Labor Institutions in USA
	6.5 Conclusion
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7 Labor Market in Germany
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Changes in Labor Institutions in Germany
		7.2.1 Formal Labor Institutions in Germany
		7.2.2 Informal Labor Institutions in Germany
		7.2.3 Avoidable Labor Institutions in Germany
	7.3 Explaining Institutional Change in Germany
		7.3.1 Channel 1: Path Dependence—Institutional Starting Positions of Germany
		7.3.2 Channel 2: Cyclical Power Relations in Germany
			7.3.2.1 Technology and Sectoral Labor Market Structure in Germany
			7.3.2.2 Phase of the Systemic Cycle in Germany
			7.3.2.3 Trade Relations of Germany
			7.3.2.4 Developmental Strategies of Germany
			7.3.2.5 Power Relations in Germany
		7.3.3 Channel 3: Institutional Design—Domestic Politics and Transnational Conditionality in Germany
	7.4 Social Effects of Labor Institutions in Germany
	7.5 Conclusion
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8 Labor Market in PR China
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 Changes in Labor Institutions in China Since 1980
		8.2.1 Formal Labor Institutions in China
		8.2.2 Informal Labor Institutions in China
		8.2.3 Avoidable Labor Institutions in China
	8.3 Explaining the Labor Institutional Changes in China
		8.3.1 Channel 1: Path Dependence—Institutional Starting Positions of China
		8.3.2 Channel 2: Cyclical Power Relations in China
			8.3.2.1 Technology and Sectoral Labor Market Structure in China
			8.3.2.2 Phase of the Systemic Cycle in China
			8.3.2.3 Trade Relations of China
			8.3.2.4 Developmental Strategies of China
			8.3.2.5 Power Relations in China
			8.3.2.6 Channel 3: Institutional Design—Transnational Conditionality and Domestic Politics in China
	8.4 Social Effects of Labor Institutions in China
	8.5 Conclusion
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9 The Three Cases and Their Patterns
	9.1 Shapes of Labor Institutions; Patterns of Change
	9.2 Interactions of the Systemic Cycle and Darwinistic Narratives
		9.2.1 Using Darwinistic Analogies in Interpreting National-Level Changes
		9.2.2 Interpreting National Changes as Elements of the Systemic Cycle
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10 Conclusions
Appendix: Curriculum Vitae
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Index