Systemic cycle and institutional change: labor markets in the USA, Germany and China

1. World-systems analysis and the systemic cycle -- 2. Institutions and institutional change -- 3. Framework oriented interpretations of the systemic cycle and institutional theory -- 4. A Systemic Cycle Oriented Framework of Institutional Change -- 5. Labor Market in United States of America -- 6. Labor Market in Germany -- 7. Labor Market in PR China -- 8. The Three Cases and their Patterns -- 9. Conclusions.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Literature -- 2 World-Systems Analysis and the Systemic Cycle -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Process of Capitalism: World-Systems Analysis and the Systemic Cycle -- 2.2.1 Defining the Unit of Analysis: Immanuel Wallerstein -- 2.2.2 Explaining the Process of Capitalism: Giovanni Arrighi and the Systemic Cycle -- 2.2.3 Understanding the Effects of the Process of Capitalism on Labor Power: Beverly Silver -- 2.3 The Uses of the Systemic Cycle -- 2.3.1 Historical Grounding Versus Equilibrium Atemporality -- 2.3.2 The Capitalist Structure, Process, and Crisis -- 2.3.3 Institutions, Organizations, and Agency -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Literature -- 3 Institutions and Institutional Change -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Emergence of New Institutionalism in Political Science: Arguing Endogenous Stability -- 3.2.1 Rational Choice Institutionalism -- 3.2.2 Sociological Institutionalism -- 3.2.3 Historical Institutionalism -- 3.3 Varieties of Capitalism: Systemic Institutional Thought -- 3.4 Beyond Varieties of Capitalism: Issues with Dynamics and Types -- 3.5 Toward a New Framework: Comparative Dynamics in New Institutionalism -- 3.6 Conclusion -- Literature -- 4 Framework-Oriented Interpretations of the Systemic Cycle and Institutional Theory -- 4.1 Demand- and Supply-Side Interpretations of the Systemic Cycle Theory -- 4.2 Addressing the Issue of Endogenous Change in Institutional Analysis -- 4.2.1 Conceptualizing Institutions Between Power Resources and Externalities -- 4.2.2 Similarities and Synergies of the Systemic Cycle and Institutional Analysis -- 4.2.3 Delimiting the Two Groups of Theories via Drivers -- 4.3 Conclusions -- Literature -- 5 A Systemic Cycle-Oriented Framework of Institutional Change -- 5.1 Introduction.