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Nölke provides a comprehensive overview on the application of the institutionalist Comparative Capitalism paradigm in international political economy. The paradigm is used to answer questions such as why do states interact in a certain issue area of the regulation of the global political economy in a specific way, what is the nature of capitalism in advanced and emerging economies, how can we explain that some economies can grow faster than others, how do international institutions and economic interdependencies affect national capitalist institutions, how can we explain the strategies of multinational corporations based on their national origin and what are the long-term tendencies with regard to the nature of the capitalist order?

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    Andreas Nölke

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  1. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Timothy M. Shaw

  2. Bavarian School of Public Policy, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Laura C. Mahrenbach

  3. Centre for African Studies, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India

    Renu Modi

  4. School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia

    Xu Yi-chong

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Nölke, A. (2019). Comparative Capitalism. In: Shaw, T.M., Mahrenbach, L.C., Modi, R., Yi-chong, X. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary International Political Economy. Palgrave Handbooks in IPE. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45443-0_9

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