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Private Governance in International Affairs and the Erosion of Coordinated Market Economies in the European Union

dc.contributor.authorNoelke, Andreas
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-12T16:55:39Z
dc.date.available2017-12-12T16:55:39Z
dc.date.issued2008-05
dc.descriptionPart Three of the Germany in Global Economic Governance Series
dc.description.abstractThe variety of capitalism-perspective is particularly well suited for an assessment of the broader political and economic effects of transnational private governance, given its focus on the interaction between the diverse economic institutions that are regulating capitalist formations. The core notion here is “institutional complementarity,” i.e. “referring to situations in which the functionality of an institutional form is conditioned by other institutions” (Martin Höpner). Thus, substantial changes in one institution may have wide-ranging consequences for other institutions and, correspondingly, for the model as a whole. Within the “variety of capitalism” (VoC)-perspective, the most sophisticated and most frequently used frame of reference is the distinction between “Liberal Market Economies/LME” and “Coordinated Market Economies/CME,” with the first “Anglo-Saxon” model usually illustrated with the case of the U.S. and the latter “Rhenish” model with Germany (Peter Hall and David Soskice). Currently, we can observe that institutions that are strongly interlinked with the LME model are being transplanted into CME type economies by means of transnational private governance, particularly within the European Union. Examples include accounting standards, rating agencies and competition policy enforcement by law firms. Together, these recent activities tend to strongly undermine the institutional complementarities inherent in CMEs.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/55041
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherMario Einaudi Center for International Studies
dc.subjectInternational Affairs
dc.subjectEuropean Union
dc.subjectInstitutional Complementarity
dc.subjectLiberal Market Economies
dc.subjectCoordinated Market Economies
dc.subjectVariety of Capitalism
dc.subjectTransnational Governance
dc.titlePrivate Governance in International Affairs and the Erosion of Coordinated Market Economies in the European Union
dc.typereport

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