Twentieth-century Europe was an intense laboratory of capitalist experimentation. Confronted with economic booms and crises, technological revolutions, and economic globalization, Western Europe's governments constantly explored alternative ways of managing domestic economic systems and...

After almost every economic crisis and corporate scandal, political actors announce the need for stricter regulatory measures for financial markets and companies, in an attempt to appease their voters and defend their political agenda. Regarding the latest international financial crisis, the EU...

This paper contributes to research at the intersection of international and comparative political economy, with particular emphasis on domestic explanations ofmultilateral cooperation. It explains why members of the European Union often have strongly diverging institutional preferences with...