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doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199206483.002.0004

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The idea for this book dates back to 2002 when Martin Rhodes, then a professor at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, and Mark Thatcher, an EUI Jean Monnet Fellow, first discussed a project to critically examine the new ‘varieties of capitalism’ (VoC) volume edited by Peter Hall and David Soskice. A year or so later, a similar conversation with Bob Hancké, by then also a Jean Monnet Fellow, brought the idea to fruition. A workshop was organized at the EUI for July 2004 with the aim of confronting the VoC approach with the contemporary challenges facing Europe: EMU, eastward enlargement, the completion of the Single Market, and pressures everywhere on welfare states and labour markets.

Everyone we invited to that first workshop enthusiastically accepted: some were contributors to the initial VoC volume; some were in the wider VoC orbit; still others were quite critical of the approach. Many of the papers presented were still at the outline stage and the discussions ranged widely. We were therefore pleasantly surprised by the high quality of the revised versions presented at a second meeting at the LSE the following summer and by the degree to which they heralded a coherent volume. The London discussions also proved fruitful to the editors in refining the introduction. The process concluded with a session at the Conference of Europeanists in Chicago in March 2006, where a number of the chapters were presented and critically appraised by Sabina Avdagic and other commentators. Along the way, all of us learned a great deal from one another. As a result, this volume expands the boundaries of VoC in ways that many of us had not foreseen, revealing important extensions to the approach and its considerable hidden strengths.

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