In 2008 Ireland experienced one of the most dramatic economic crises of any economy in
the world. It remains at the heart of the international crisis, sitting uneasily between the US …

The whole pattern of European integration is in crisis and important institutional
transformations can be observed. It is argued that traditional comparative approaches, such …

Democracy is in crisis around the globe. Hungary was long heralded as a champion of
political and economic liberalization in postsocialist Eastern Europe. However, the country …

Much of the critical discussion of the European political economy and the Eurozone crisis
has focused upon a sense that solidaristic achievements built up during the post-war period …

Scholarly interest in EU financial regulation and economic governance has increased
sharply over the last decade, but the literature on their politics remains fragmented. We …

The euro is reeling, and with it the future of the European integration project. Governments in
Europe seem unable to deal with the sovereign debt crisis, and as aresult of this political …

The emerging European corporate network is becoming increasingly established. Here I
compare the network of board interlocks among the largest stock listed European firms in …

Dark Finance offers one of the first ethnographic accounts of financial expansion and its
political impacts in Eastern Europe. Following workers, managers, and investors in the …

This article proposes the concept of variegated capitalism as an alternative to the
mainstream study of comparative capitalism. It illustrates its plausibility and potential by …

In this introduction to the special issue, we provide a brief overview of the two distinct but
connected meanings of the phrase 'varieties of capitalism in crisis':(1) the crisis of empirical …