Fault and fracture? The impact of new directions in Comparative Capitalisms research on the wider field

There is no abstract, but this is a representative paragraph from the introduction:

'This chapter will, after a brief reprise of the VoC debate, focus on how mainstream CC scholarship is now coming under pressure from a range of different sources. What unites these alternatives to the mainstream is their wish to engage in CC research in a different manner: conscious and critical of capitalism, but remaining aware of how it exists in multiple forms across the world. The current volume, in explicitly giving centre-stage to several of these new directions, is part of this desired shift towards alternative forms of CC scholarship. As will become clear in the present chapter as well as elsewhere in the volume, this does not entail either the abandonment of the study of institutions in regionally, nationally and locally specific contexts or of attempts to elaborate typological theories of capitalism. Rather, most authors acknowledge that a deep understanding of institutions, and the development of typologies as potentially powerful analytical tools, can help us to understand capitalist diversity on a global scale (see especially the chapters by May and Nölke, Wehr, and Drahokoupil and Myant). Nevertheless, the impact of these new directions as they begin to unfold – both through articulating their critique of mainstream CC perspectives and through developing alternative lines of research and theorization – will undoubtedly have other consequences for the field as it is presently constituted.'