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!!Governing Growth: The Postwar Transformations of Capitalism and Democracy
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__Read the new publication by [Professor Peter A. Hall|Member/Hall_Peter(7454)] MAE, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University. Prof. Hall was elected as Member of the [Governance, Institutions and Policies|Acad_Main/Sections/Governance_Institutions_and_Policies] Section of Academia Europaea this year.__
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How do capitalist economies change over time? And what political consequences follow? In Governing Growth, Peter Hall traces the interactions between politics and economics in Western democracies over the past eighty years, identifying a series of profound shifts in the political economies of Europe and the United States. Hall develops the concept of successive growth regimes, each the result of public policies interacting with the strategies of private firms. Alongside each growth regime, he argues, there is a distinctive representation regime, which determines whose voices have the most influence over public policy. Showing how these two regimes interact, he develops a new account of the processes through which political economies change over time.
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Peter Hall outlines three postwar growth regimes: an era of modernization, from 1945 to about 1975; an era of liberalization, from 1980 to the late 1990s; and an era of knowledge-based growth, beginning at the turn of the century. His sweeping analysis sheds new light not only on the relationship between capitalism and democracy, but also on the roots of our contemporary political dilemmas.
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__ISBN:__ 9780691284934\\
__Publication date:__  September 2026\\
__Publisher:__ [Princeton University Press|https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691284934/governing-growth?srsltid=AU7gw4U4HwysZjP6P1CQtzU3awFX31zq-yP7n10-l2lSC2Ig5iafisVZ]\\
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!About Peter Hall

Peter A. Hall is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies in the Department of Government and a Resident Faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University where he has taught since 1982. He has previously served as Director of the Center for European Studies and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. For fifteen years, he served as Co-Director of the Program on Successful Societies for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. His previous positions include Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Karl Deutsch Visiting Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin and Visiting Professor at the Instituto Juan March in Madrid. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Center of the European University Institute, the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, Centre de Sociologie des Organisations, Paris, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, the Russell Sage Foundation in New York, and World Politics Fellow at Princeton University.
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Peter Hall’s twelve books include ''Governing the Economy'', ''The Political Power of Economic Ideas'', ''Varieties of Capitalism'' (ed. with David Soskice), ''Successful Societies and Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era'' (ed. with Michèle Lamont), ''Changing France: The Politics That Markets Mak''e (ed. with Pepper Culpepper and Bruno Palier), ''Political Change and Electoral Coalitions in Western Democracies'' (with Georgina Evans and Sung In Kim). He has published published more than a hundred articles about European politics, institutional analysis, and comparative political economy. His recent articles focus on the political response to economic challenges in postwar Europe, the economic and cultural roots of populism, and the impact of social institutions on inequalities in health. 
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Posted  15%%sup th/% September 2026 by Academia Europaea.\\
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