ABSTRACT
Volker Bornschier and Michael Nollert provide a broad picture of political conflict and labor disputes within the core for the post-war period, concluding that structural properties of states, including the phase of a societal model in which they may find themselves, substantially predict collective action. The Atlantic Charter of 1941, as the initial formulation of a new order, was couched not only in terms of political security but was also linked to the fundamentals of the democratic and welfare societal model of the 1930s. While the United States had already adopted the new Keynesian economic policies domestically in the 1930s, it stood in the way of a similar solution at the world level after the war. The absence of a fresh developmental policy to stimulate lagging performances is a typical example of the weak institutionalisation of the world society model.
