Dorothee Bohle
Biographic Data
| ID | 279100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorothee Bohle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorothee |
| FAMILY NAME | Bohle |
| SIGNATURE | BOHLE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7063-5875 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 621 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Shifting the Power Balance in the EU's Single Market? Central and Eastern European Agents of Change
This Symposium analyses how European Union (EU) member states have adjusted domestic policies in response to the evolving governance of the single market since the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent EU shocks. Confronted with new opportunities and constraints, countries have adopted diverse forms of domestic agency that have, in turn, reshaped the de facto governance of the single market. We focus on Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), where such…
What shapes populists’ economic policy impact? An analysis of financial market reform in Hungary and Poland
Published online: 13 June 2024
Getting gender onto the radar of comparative political economy
The politics of production and social reproduction
The Gramscian politics of Europe’s rule of law crisis
The paper explores the long-term trajectory and the recent acceleration of the conflict over the rule of law in the EU. It focusses on the motivation of the two governments in Hungary and Poland to challenge European core values increasingly aggressively even directly at EU level despite the threat of significant material costs to both countries. Putting forward a Gramscian understanding, we argue that this radicalization is the result of a count…
A perfect storm: Covid-19 and the reorganisation of the German meat industry
An advocacy coalition of trade unions, churches and NGOs had been trying for a long time to mobilise domestic media and politicians in order to re-regulate the German meat industry. The meat industry’s low-cost business model, using employee posting and subcontracting on a massive scale, has led to extreme forms of unsafe working and poor living conditions for large numbers of Central and Eastern European workers. But it is only in the wake of th…
East Central Europe in the Covid-19 crisis
This article introduces the Special Issue on Eastern Europe in the COVID-19 crisis. It seeks to shed light on the different and partly worse experiences in East Central Europe compared to those of the West by analysing the crisis, its governance, and effects in the region from the vantage point of specific vulnerabilities, which have been building up for years. We identify four major vulnerabilities – a severe crisis of care, strains in social so…
Riding the Covid waves: Authoritarian socio-economic responses of east central Europe’s anti-liberal governments
The extraordinary context of the COVID-19 crisis gave governments around the world a freer hand to reshape their socio-economic orders. Political economists studying East Central Europe have started a debate in how far democratic backsliding in the region has ushered in a more authoritarian form of capitalism. Our paper examines responses to COVID-19 of four anti-liberal governments in the region: Hungary, Poland, Serbia, and Slovenia. Incorporat…
The Comparative Political Economy of Growth Models: Explaining the Continuity of FDI-Led Growth in Ireland and Hungary
This article argues that the quiet politics of informal business-state interaction explains the political determinants of growth regimes. Building on the business power literature within the study of comparative capitalism, it shows that the noisy politics of elections often leads to changes of government but rarely to fundamental changes in the growth regime. Rather, growth models can be traced to the interactions and interests of dominant corpo…
European political economy of finance and financialization
First published online: 20 August 2020
Definancialization, financial repression and policy continuity in East-Central Europe
The Great Financial Crisis ushered unorthodox financial policies that would have been unfathomable before 2008. Perhaps unexpectedly, some of the boldest measures on this unorthodox spectrum were adopted in semi-peripheral and therefore theoretically vulnerable countries such as some of the European Union’s new member states from East-Central Europe. Why did policy makers in some of these countries (Hungary, Romania) embark on rolling back financ…
Housing as a Fertility Trap: The Inability of States, Markets, or Families to Provide Adequate Housing in East Central Europe
This article belongs to the special cluster, “Politics and Current Demographic Challenges in Central and Eastern Europe,” guest-edited by Tsveta Petrova and Tomasz Inglot. We explore housing finance and policy in East Central Europe to understand the connection between housing, in particular independent household formation, and the demographic crisis. The combination of high debt-free homeownership rates with illiquid housing finance and limited …
From asset to patrimony: The Re-Emergence of the Housing Question
First published online: 16 October 2019
Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery
With the collapse of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance in 1991, the Eastern European nations of the former socialist bloc had to figure out their newly capitalist future. Capitalism, they found, was not a single set of political-economic relations. Rather, they each had to decide what sort of capitalist nation to become. In Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery, Dorothee Bohle and Béla Geskovits trace the form that capitalism took i…
Capitalism in Transformation: Movements and Countermovements in the 21st Century
Presenting a profound and far-reaching analysis of economic, ecological, social, cultural and political developments of contemporary capitalism, this book draws on the work of Karl Polanyi, and re-reads it for our times. The renowned authors offer key insights to current changes in the relations between the economy, politics and society, and their ecological and social effects
Politicising embedded neoliberalism: Continuity and change in Hungary’s development model
Published online: 17 Dec 2018
Mortgaging Europe’s Periphery
This paper asks why peripheral European countries have been particularly vulnerable to housing and mortgage booms in recent decades; how these booms have shaped their exposure to the global financial crisis (GFC), and how the GFC has affected peripheral housing finance. To answer these questions, it explores the interaction between European processes of financial integration and domestic housing (finance) policies in four peripheral countries. It…
Mapping the business systems of 61 major economies: A Taxonomy and Implications for Varieties of Capitalism and Business Systems Research
Efforts to build a universal theory of the world's business systems require empirical grounding in an understanding of the variety that need explaining. To support such theorizing, we analyzed the institutional structures of 61 major economies, accounting for 93.5% of 2013 world GDP at purchasing power parity. We found nine main types of business systems: Highly Coordinated, Coordinated Market, Liberal Market, European Peripheral, Advanced Emergi…
European Integration, Capitalist Diversity and Crises Trajectories on Europe’s Eastern Periphery
European policy responses to the Global Financial Crisis and its European manifestation have set off a scholarly debate whether different national varieties of capitalism are equally able to cope with deepened European integration. To date, this debate has mostly focused on the contrasting fates of the thriving northern export-oriented capitalisms and the ailing southern European ones. This paper seeks to broaden the debate by focusing on Europe’…
Lean, Special, or Consensual? Vulnerability and External Buffering in the Small States of East-Central Europe
Publication date: January 1, 2017
The Business Systems of the World's Leading 61 Economies: Institutional Comparison, Clusters, and Implications for Varieties of Capitalism and Business Systems Research
Efforts to build a universal theory of the world's business systems require empirical grounding in an understanding of the variety that need explaining. To support such theorizing, we analyzed the institutional structures of 61 major economies, accounting for 93.5% of 2013 world GDP at purchasing power parity. We found nine main types of business systems: Highly Coordinated, Coordinated Market, Liberal Market, European Peripheral, Advanced Emergi…
Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity
Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity." West European Politics, 39(2), pp. 403–404
Responsible Government and Capitalism’s Cycles
This article explores the tensions Peter Mair identified between responsible and responsive government in relation to the constraints and opportunities of an internationally integrated and instituted economy. Drawing on the example of the short period of democratic stability and its subsequent breakdown in the Weimar Republic, the article argues that in Weimar Germany’s ‘golden twenties’, governments could bridge the gap between responsibility – …
Post-socialist housing meets transnational finance: Foreign banks, mortgage lending, and the privatization of welfare in Hungary and Estonia
This paper asks how public policies have shaped the build-up of crisis-prone housing finance markets and whether they have mitigated or reinforced the associated risks for citizens in East Central Europe. Analyzing the mortgage lending booms and busts in Hungary and Estonia, the paper finds that different policy priorities did not matter too much for the build-up of the mortgage boom and the associated risks households had to face. Rather, early …
First the Transition, then the Crash. Eastern Europe in the 2000s
Gareth Dale (ed.), London: Pluto Press, 2011, 266 pp., ISBN: 978-0-7453-3115-7, £22.50 (paperback). This collection of essays is a welcome corrective to the dominant view that the global crisis has
Neoliberalism, embedded neoliberalism and neocorporatism: Towards transnational capitalism in Central-Eastern Europe
This article analyses the key features and origins of three variants of transnational capitalism emerging in Central-Eastern Europe: a neoliberal type in the Baltic states, an embedded neoliberal type in the Visegrád states, and a neocorporatist type in Slovenia. These regimes are characterised by their institutions and performances in marketisation, industrial transformation, social inclusion, and macroeconomic stability. Explanations for regime…
The Comparative Political Economy of Growth Models: Explaining the Continuity of FDI-Led Growth in Ireland and Hungary
This article argues that the quiet politics of informal business-state interaction explains the political determinants of growth regimes. Building on the business power literature within the study of comparative capitalism, it shows that the noisy politics of elections often leads to changes of government but rarely to fundamental changes in the growth regime. Rather, growth models can be traced to the interactions and interests of dominant corpo…
Politicising embedded neoliberalism: Continuity and change in Hungary’s development model
Published online: 17 Dec 2018
Post-socialist housing meets transnational finance: Foreign banks, mortgage lending, and the privatization of welfare in Hungary and Estonia
This paper asks how public policies have shaped the build-up of crisis-prone housing finance markets and whether they have mitigated or reinforced the associated risks for citizens in East Central Europe. Analyzing the mortgage lending booms and busts in Hungary and Estonia, the paper finds that different policy priorities did not matter too much for the build-up of the mortgage boom and the associated risks households had to face. Rather, early …
Mapping the business systems of 61 major economies: A Taxonomy and Implications for Varieties of Capitalism and Business Systems Research
Efforts to build a universal theory of the world's business systems require empirical grounding in an understanding of the variety that need explaining. To support such theorizing, we analyzed the institutional structures of 61 major economies, accounting for 93.5% of 2013 world GDP at purchasing power parity. We found nine main types of business systems: Highly Coordinated, Coordinated Market, Liberal Market, European Peripheral, Advanced Emergi…
European Integration, Capitalist Diversity and Crises Trajectories on Europe’s Eastern Periphery
European policy responses to the Global Financial Crisis and its European manifestation have set off a scholarly debate whether different national varieties of capitalism are equally able to cope with deepened European integration. To date, this debate has mostly focused on the contrasting fates of the thriving northern export-oriented capitalisms and the ailing southern European ones. This paper seeks to broaden the debate by focusing on Europe’…
Definancialization, financial repression and policy continuity in East-Central Europe
The Great Financial Crisis ushered unorthodox financial policies that would have been unfathomable before 2008. Perhaps unexpectedly, some of the boldest measures on this unorthodox spectrum were adopted in semi-peripheral and therefore theoretically vulnerable countries such as some of the European Union’s new member states from East-Central Europe. Why did policy makers in some of these countries (Hungary, Romania) embark on rolling back financ…
Neoliberal hegemony, transnational capital and the terms of the EU's eastward expansion
Informed by a neo-Gramscian framework of analysis, this paper investigates the nature of neoliberal hegemony in the EU, and its consequences for the terms of enlargement. It will argue that both the deepening and enlargement of the EU are promoted by a historical bloc that seeks to establish the hegemony of transnational capital. In western Europe, social-democratic political forces, organised labour and the political forces of the peripheral cou…
Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery
With the collapse of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance in 1991, the Eastern European nations of the former socialist bloc had to figure out their newly capitalist future. Capitalism, they found, was not a single set of political-economic relations. Rather, they each had to decide what sort of capitalist nation to become. In Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery, Dorothee Bohle and Béla Geskovits trace the form that capitalism took i…
Varieties of Capitalism and Capitalism « tout court
The article reviews the "Varieties of Capitalism" (VoC) approach and its large impact on the field of comparative political economy. It situates the approach within the field, and stresses its specificities. The article argues that VoC's firm-centeredness, parsimony, and reliance on conceptual tools borrowed from economics, fit better than other approaches to a Zeitgeist formed in the context of the demise of Western capitalism's alternatives, an…
From asset to patrimony: The Re-Emergence of the Housing Question
First published online: 16 October 2019
Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy (II): East-Central Europe's Quandary
The article discusses strategies the Central-East European EU member states have applied to protect their populations against the social risks stemming from transformation, foreign-led development and the current economic crisis, and asks how they came about. Some governments spend relatively little on social protection, but employ a high share of their workforce in the public sector. Others offer the most generous support for pensioners and othe…
Riding the Covid waves: Authoritarian socio-economic responses of east central Europe’s anti-liberal governments
The extraordinary context of the COVID-19 crisis gave governments around the world a freer hand to reshape their socio-economic orders. Political economists studying East Central Europe have started a debate in how far democratic backsliding in the region has ushered in a more authoritarian form of capitalism. Our paper examines responses to COVID-19 of four anti-liberal governments in the region: Hungary, Poland, Serbia, and Slovenia. Incorporat…
The Gramscian politics of Europe’s rule of law crisis
The paper explores the long-term trajectory and the recent acceleration of the conflict over the rule of law in the EU. It focusses on the motivation of the two governments in Hungary and Poland to challenge European core values increasingly aggressively even directly at EU level despite the threat of significant material costs to both countries. Putting forward a Gramscian understanding, we argue that this radicalization is the result of a count…
Mortgaging Europe’s Periphery
This paper asks why peripheral European countries have been particularly vulnerable to housing and mortgage booms in recent decades; how these booms have shaped their exposure to the global financial crisis (GFC), and how the GFC has affected peripheral housing finance. To answer these questions, it explores the interaction between European processes of financial integration and domestic housing (finance) policies in four peripheral countries. It…
Lean, Special, or Consensual? Vulnerability and External Buffering in the Small States of East-Central Europe
Publication date: January 1, 2017
East Central Europe in the Covid-19 crisis
This article introduces the Special Issue on Eastern Europe in the COVID-19 crisis. It seeks to shed light on the different and partly worse experiences in East Central Europe compared to those of the West by analysing the crisis, its governance, and effects in the region from the vantage point of specific vulnerabilities, which have been building up for years. We identify four major vulnerabilities – a severe crisis of care, strains in social so…
European political economy of finance and financialization
First published online: 20 August 2020
Capitalism without compromise: Strong business and weak labor in Eastern Europe’s new transnational industries
Responsible Government and Capitalism’s Cycles
This article explores the tensions Peter Mair identified between responsible and responsive government in relation to the constraints and opportunities of an internationally integrated and instituted economy. Drawing on the example of the short period of democratic stability and its subsequent breakdown in the Weimar Republic, the article argues that in Weimar Germany’s ‘golden twenties’, governments could bridge the gap between responsibility – …
What shapes populists’ economic policy impact? An analysis of financial market reform in Hungary and Poland
Published online: 13 June 2024
Housing as a Fertility Trap: The Inability of States, Markets, or Families to Provide Adequate Housing in East Central Europe
This article belongs to the special cluster, “Politics and Current Demographic Challenges in Central and Eastern Europe,” guest-edited by Tsveta Petrova and Tomasz Inglot. We explore housing finance and policy in East Central Europe to understand the connection between housing, in particular independent household formation, and the demographic crisis. The combination of high debt-free homeownership rates with illiquid housing finance and limited …
First the Transition, then the Crash. Eastern Europe in the 2000s
Gareth Dale (ed.), London: Pluto Press, 2011, 266 pp., ISBN: 978-0-7453-3115-7, £22.50 (paperback). This collection of essays is a welcome corrective to the dominant view that the global crisis has
Whose Europe is it: Interest group action in accession negotiations : the cases of competition policy and labor migration
The paper addresses the question how concrete interests have shaped the outcome of the accession negotiations between the European Union and the Central East European applicant countries. Despite the general principle according to which the acquis communautaire is binding for both current and new member states from the date of enlargement on, a number of relevant exceptions have been made. In our paper we address two such exceptions in the fields…
The politics of production and social reproduction
Erweiterung und Vertiefung der EU: Neoliberale Restrukturierung und transnationales Kapital
The paper argues that both the deepening of the EU, and the concrete form of its eastward expansion is motivated by an overarching project of neoliberal restructuring at the EU level, initiated by the forces of an emerging transnational capitalist class. Whereas the deepening project could be developed into a precarious hegemonic constellation, and resulted in an „embedded" neoliberalism, the EU has exported a much more market- radical variant of…
Whose Europe is it: Interest group action in accession negotiations : the cases of competition policy and labor migration
The paper addresses the question how concrete interests have shaped the outcome of the accession negotiations between the European Union and the Central East European applicant countries. Despite the general principle according to which the acquis communautaire is binding for both current and new member states from the date of enlargement on, a number of relevant exceptions have been made. In our paper we address two such exceptions in the fields…
Capitalism without compromise: Strong business and weak labor in Eastern Europe’s new transnational industries
Neoliberal hegemony, transnational capital and the terms of the EU's eastward expansion
Informed by a neo-Gramscian framework of analysis, this paper investigates the nature of neoliberal hegemony in the EU, and its consequences for the terms of enlargement. It will argue that both the deepening and enlargement of the EU are promoted by a historical bloc that seeks to establish the hegemony of transnational capital. In western Europe, social-democratic political forces, organised labour and the political forces of the peripheral cou…
The State, Internationalization, and Capitalist Diversity in Eastern Europe
This article contributes to the debate on varieties of capitalism in Eastern Europe in three ways. First, four types of capitalist regimes that differ in particular institutional configurations and performances are empirically identified: the state-crafted neoliberalism of the Baltic States, the more directly world-market driven neoliberalism of the CIS countries, the embedded neoliberalism of the Visegrád countries, and neo-corporatism in Sloven…
Neoliberalism, embedded neoliberalism and neocorporatism: Towards transnational capitalism in Central-Eastern Europe
This article analyses the key features and origins of three variants of transnational capitalism emerging in Central-Eastern Europe: a neoliberal type in the Baltic states, an embedded neoliberal type in the Visegrád states, and a neocorporatist type in Slovenia. These regimes are characterised by their institutions and performances in marketisation, industrial transformation, social inclusion, and macroeconomic stability. Explanations for regime…
Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy (II): East-Central Europe's Quandary
The article discusses strategies the Central-East European EU member states have applied to protect their populations against the social risks stemming from transformation, foreign-led development and the current economic crisis, and asks how they came about. Some governments spend relatively little on social protection, but employ a high share of their workforce in the public sector. Others offer the most generous support for pensioners and othe…
Varieties of Capitalism and Capitalism « tout court
The article reviews the "Varieties of Capitalism" (VoC) approach and its large impact on the field of comparative political economy. It situates the approach within the field, and stresses its specificities. The article argues that VoC's firm-centeredness, parsimony, and reliance on conceptual tools borrowed from economics, fit better than other approaches to a Zeitgeist formed in the context of the demise of Western capitalism's alternatives, an…
First the Transition, then the Crash. Eastern Europe in the 2000s
Gareth Dale (ed.), London: Pluto Press, 2011, 266 pp., ISBN: 978-0-7453-3115-7, £22.50 (paperback). This collection of essays is a welcome corrective to the dominant view that the global crisis has
Post-socialist housing meets transnational finance: Foreign banks, mortgage lending, and the privatization of welfare in Hungary and Estonia
This paper asks how public policies have shaped the build-up of crisis-prone housing finance markets and whether they have mitigated or reinforced the associated risks for citizens in East Central Europe. Analyzing the mortgage lending booms and busts in Hungary and Estonia, the paper finds that different policy priorities did not matter too much for the build-up of the mortgage boom and the associated risks households had to face. Rather, early …
Responsible Government and Capitalism’s Cycles
This article explores the tensions Peter Mair identified between responsible and responsive government in relation to the constraints and opportunities of an internationally integrated and instituted economy. Drawing on the example of the short period of democratic stability and its subsequent breakdown in the Weimar Republic, the article argues that in Weimar Germany’s ‘golden twenties’, governments could bridge the gap between responsibility – …
The Business Systems of the World's Leading 61 Economies: Institutional Comparison, Clusters, and Implications for Varieties of Capitalism and Business Systems Research
Efforts to build a universal theory of the world's business systems require empirical grounding in an understanding of the variety that need explaining. To support such theorizing, we analyzed the institutional structures of 61 major economies, accounting for 93.5% of 2013 world GDP at purchasing power parity. We found nine main types of business systems: Highly Coordinated, Coordinated Market, Liberal Market, European Peripheral, Advanced Emergi…
Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity
Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity." West European Politics, 39(2), pp. 403–404
European Integration, Capitalist Diversity and Crises Trajectories on Europe’s Eastern Periphery
European policy responses to the Global Financial Crisis and its European manifestation have set off a scholarly debate whether different national varieties of capitalism are equally able to cope with deepened European integration. To date, this debate has mostly focused on the contrasting fates of the thriving northern export-oriented capitalisms and the ailing southern European ones. This paper seeks to broaden the debate by focusing on Europe’…
Lean, Special, or Consensual? Vulnerability and External Buffering in the Small States of East-Central Europe
Publication date: January 1, 2017
Mortgaging Europe’s Periphery
This paper asks why peripheral European countries have been particularly vulnerable to housing and mortgage booms in recent decades; how these booms have shaped their exposure to the global financial crisis (GFC), and how the GFC has affected peripheral housing finance. To answer these questions, it explores the interaction between European processes of financial integration and domestic housing (finance) policies in four peripheral countries. It…
Mapping the business systems of 61 major economies: A Taxonomy and Implications for Varieties of Capitalism and Business Systems Research
Efforts to build a universal theory of the world's business systems require empirical grounding in an understanding of the variety that need explaining. To support such theorizing, we analyzed the institutional structures of 61 major economies, accounting for 93.5% of 2013 world GDP at purchasing power parity. We found nine main types of business systems: Highly Coordinated, Coordinated Market, Liberal Market, European Peripheral, Advanced Emergi…
Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery
With the collapse of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance in 1991, the Eastern European nations of the former socialist bloc had to figure out their newly capitalist future. Capitalism, they found, was not a single set of political-economic relations. Rather, they each had to decide what sort of capitalist nation to become. In Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery, Dorothee Bohle and Béla Geskovits trace the form that capitalism took i…
Capitalism in Transformation: Movements and Countermovements in the 21st Century
Presenting a profound and far-reaching analysis of economic, ecological, social, cultural and political developments of contemporary capitalism, this book draws on the work of Karl Polanyi, and re-reads it for our times. The renowned authors offer key insights to current changes in the relations between the economy, politics and society, and their ecological and social effects
Politicising embedded neoliberalism: Continuity and change in Hungary’s development model
Published online: 17 Dec 2018
European political economy of finance and financialization
First published online: 20 August 2020
Definancialization, financial repression and policy continuity in East-Central Europe
The Great Financial Crisis ushered unorthodox financial policies that would have been unfathomable before 2008. Perhaps unexpectedly, some of the boldest measures on this unorthodox spectrum were adopted in semi-peripheral and therefore theoretically vulnerable countries such as some of the European Union’s new member states from East-Central Europe. Why did policy makers in some of these countries (Hungary, Romania) embark on rolling back financ…
Housing as a Fertility Trap: The Inability of States, Markets, or Families to Provide Adequate Housing in East Central Europe
This article belongs to the special cluster, “Politics and Current Demographic Challenges in Central and Eastern Europe,” guest-edited by Tsveta Petrova and Tomasz Inglot. We explore housing finance and policy in East Central Europe to understand the connection between housing, in particular independent household formation, and the demographic crisis. The combination of high debt-free homeownership rates with illiquid housing finance and limited …
From asset to patrimony: The Re-Emergence of the Housing Question
First published online: 16 October 2019
The Comparative Political Economy of Growth Models: Explaining the Continuity of FDI-Led Growth in Ireland and Hungary
This article argues that the quiet politics of informal business-state interaction explains the political determinants of growth regimes. Building on the business power literature within the study of comparative capitalism, it shows that the noisy politics of elections often leads to changes of government but rarely to fundamental changes in the growth regime. Rather, growth models can be traced to the interactions and interests of dominant corpo…
Political science (30 works) · Economics (27 works) · Politics (21 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (20 works) · Political economy (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Economic system (17 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Capitalism (11 works)