Capitalist democracies have always displayed considerable diversity in theirkey political and economic institutions such as the organization of economicinterest... » 

Capitalist democracies have always displayed considerable diversity in theirkey political and economic institutions such as the organization of economicinterest groups and private enterprises the public sector and the welfarestate as well as political parties and social movements. The book asks whetherthe challenges of new technologies citizens preferences and growingpolitical and economic interdependence in the 1980s and 1990s force allpolities to adopt similar institutional reforms. The authors argue thatestablished arrangements have become difficult to sustain but that countrieschoose unique trajectories of reform not a common approach. The diversityamong capitalist democracies persists in a new fashion. «