ABSTRACT

Since the crisis that started in the 1960s, what has become of Fordism and the monopolistic mode of régulation? Has a new development model emerged? Are countries moving towards similar configurations of institutional forms in response to an unprecedented degree of internationalisation? It is time to bring together the threads woven by the preceding analyses around these central questions. While Part II analysed the five institutional forms separately, each of the following chapters analyses an individual country. The hypothesis is that the nation state is still a relevant unit of analysis, even when a high level of internationalisation is destabilising many of the institutional compromises of each country.