Varietals of capitalism : a political economy of the changing wine industry
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Varietals of capitalism : a political economy of the changing wine industry
(Cornell studies in political economy / edited by Peter J. Katzenstein)
Cornell University Press, 2016
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-256) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Varietals of Capitalism shows that politics is an omnipresent part of the economics of wine and of economic activity in general. Based on a four-year research project encompassing fieldwork in France, Spain, Italy, and Romania, Xabier Itcaina, Antoine Roger, and Andy Smith examine the causes and effects of a radical reform adopted at the EU level in 2008. Regulatory change politically transformed the rationale of EU support to the wine industry, from shaping the supply side to encouraging producers to adapt to the demands of a supposedly "new consumer."To explain the adoption and impact of the reform, the authors develop an analytical framework to capture the actors-their perceptions, preferences, and interdependencies-within an industry crisscrossed by institutions located at the global, European, national, and local scales. This framework combines concepts and lessons from historical institutionalism and regulationist economics, Bourdieu's field theory, and the sociology of public policymaking. The authors reject accounts that attribute policy change simply to material determinants and "the invisible hand of the market." They emphasize the crucial importance of institutions within sectors of the economy, and propose ways to bolster constructivist approaches to political economy by linking industrial change to scientific and bureaucratic balances of power. This book's novel focus on different levels of institutional impact should prove influential in the study of the politics of industry, and more broadly within the comparative analysis of capitalism.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Wine and the Politics of Economic Change
PART I
The Analytical Challenge of Economic Change
1. Existing Approaches to Change in and beyond the Wine Industry
2. Structured Contingency: Institutions, Fields, and Political Work
PART II
Shaping and Negotiating Deep Reform
3. Knowledge and Power in the Scientific Field
4. When Political Work Shifts to the Economic Field
5. Adopting Reform within the Bureaucratic Field
PART III
Implementing Change: Reinstitutionalization or Reproduction?
6. The End of Interventionism?
7. From New Wine Categories to Resegmented Markets?
8. Microeconomic Support: New Instruments in Old Bottles?
Conclusion: A Glass Half Full
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