Comparative political economy: past, present, future

Wolfgang Streeck

A chapter in Handbook of Comparative Political Economy, 2025, pp 555-573 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The chapter begins by looking back at the founding period of comparative political economy (CPE) in the 1960s and 1970s. It summarizes CPE's original logic of analysis, its early efficiency-theoretical framework, and its initial hopes for practical-political impact. Next, it discusses seven paradigmatic problems encountered in its disciplinary history. This is followed by a list of subjects – war, deglobalization, climate change, and migration – and analytical perspectives – historical dynamics, political contingencies, systemic interdependence, functional incompleteness, international empire, the economy as capitalist, and the frictions between capitalism and society – that are likely to be prominent in CPE in the future.

Keywords: Comparative method; Reformism; Economism; Functionalism; Historical institutionalism; Capitalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035327775
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